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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...
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engaging in virtually no collaboration in the area of innovation, and others engaging quite intensively with academic partners …
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National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …
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knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find …
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innovation. Innovation in an enterprise constitute an impulse to take new challenges, which perfectly fits into the paradigm of … the organization's agility. In turn, through innovation, companies become agile. The presented research confirms that … there is a connection between having agility attributes by a company and obtaining by it a high level of innovation. Many …
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detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …
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