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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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We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal … aspects are taken into account in research and innovation activities in four fundamentally different futures, as opposed to … efficacy and efficiency of policy-making; legitimacy of research and innovation activities; societal involvement; equity; and …
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This paper investigates interregional differences in cooperative behavior of manufacturing establishments in the field of research and development (R&D). The empirical analysis for eleven European regions reveals a number of significant differences between these regions in the propensity to...
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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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In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …
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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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; Innovationserfolg ; Marketinginnovation ; organisatorische Innovation ; Produktinnovation ; Prozessinnovation ; Umsatz …We examine the innovation success of predominant small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena … (Thuringia) by using the data sets of the research project "KompNet 2011 – Factors determining the success of regional innovation …
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Energy Systems Integration (ESI) is an emerging paradigm and at the centre of the EU energy debate. ESI takes a holistic view of the electricity, gas and heat sectors to deliver a clean, reliable and affordable energy system. By identifying and exploiting the synergies within and between the...
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