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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
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This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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The article focuses on cooperation of enterprises while performing their innovation activities. Many firms face various …
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This paper analyzes the recent literature on innovation and its determinants from an institutional point of view …. Innovation is a concept that has been defined by several authors as implementing new ideas, processes, mechanisms and methods … process of innovation. This is analyzed theoretically …
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able to gain and maintain world leadership in innovation and technology while the latter continues to lag. Notwithstanding … the magnitude of this innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both sides of the Atlantic, very little … differences between the two continents in the quantity and quality of the major ‘inputs’ to innovation: R&D investments and human …
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The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on expert advice. Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture's profitability, for example, by appraising the achievability of synergies. We show that if the experts who...
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become an even more important determinant of growth through its impact on innovation. This note reviews global trends that … make a policy focus on technological learning and innovation more important than ever for developing countries. The note … innovation policy moving forward. Developing countries would benefit from an increased policy emphasis on technological learning …
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Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
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This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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