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Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India: Insights from the Auto and Software Industries
Lema, Rasmus; Quadros, Ruy; Schmitz, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe … and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the … shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high …
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via …
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe … - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005
We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re … implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749386
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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003
We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749389
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Excessive Deficits and Research and Development capacity
Afonso, Oscar; Alves, Rui Henrique; Vasconcelos, Paulo B. - In: EKONOMIAZ 68 (2008) 02, pp. 354-367
Within the debate that involves the application of a tax discipline in the EMU, some authors have questioned the adequacy of the use of the same tax rules for all the different member states, appealing to a more temporary tax flexibility for the small and less developed countries. For such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751598
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Déficit excesivos e investigación y desarrollo
Afonso, Oscar; Alves, Rui Henrique; Vasconcelos, Paulo B. - In: EKONOMIAZ 68 (2008) 02, pp. 354-369
Within the debate that involves the application of a tax discipline in the EMU, some authors have questioned the adequacy of the use of the same tax rules for all the different member states, appealing to a more temporary tax flexibility for the small and less developed countries. For such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751601
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Das Gründungsgeschehen in Dresden, Rostock und Karlsruhe: eine Betrachtung des regionalen Gründungspotenzials
Henning, Tobias; Mueller, Pamela; Niese, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006
This paper compares the structure and the development of new firm formation activity in three German regions. The two East German regions, Dresden and Rostock, show significantly higher start-up rates than the West German region Karlsruhe. The analysis of entry cohorts reveals that not only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207053
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Innovation performance of new EU memeber countries - situation in the Czech republic
Müller, Karel - In: Politická ekonomie 2006 (2006) 6, pp. 778-801
The article deals with analysis of the factors influencing innovation performance in new EU member countries … between technology and economy, which are reflected in and supported by formation of the international databases on innovation … as well as the regulatory policies in the fields of science, technology and innovation. Making use of the concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036616
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An Examination of Technology Strategies for the Integration of Bioinformatics in Pharmaceutical R&D Processes
Hopkins, Michael M. - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999
, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …
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