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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration

Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - 2011

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …

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Science vs. profit in research : lessons from the human genome project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …

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The contribution of corporate ventures to radical innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Dick, Johannes M. H.; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. -- Corporate … entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; radical innovation …

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Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms’ inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and organizational constraints related to the M&A event contribute to inventive output...

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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); … - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...