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This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … higher rates of new-to-the-market innovations among SMEs and of SME innovation collaborations with other firms and …
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models is becoming crucial to increase resource productivity and achieve competitive advantages. Notwithstanding eco-innovation … consensus exists on the boundaries and interlinkages among the concepts of Eco-Innovation, Circular Economy and Circular … analysed firms in Emilia Romagna, in terms of cleaner production strategies. By contrast, any business innovation linked to the …
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In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...
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basis of the dataset for the German car industry for 2003. The dataset is rather unique in the sense that it contains …
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This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … 696 Pakistani SMEs from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, and bivariate probit estimation techniques were used. The … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …
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countries and 103 industrial sectors across the 2003 to 2017 period. Taking advantage of the data's panel properties yields a … testing employs a probit estimation technique that accounts for the appropriate fixed effects and generates results that …
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We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …
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This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...
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This paper investigates the determinants of innovative activities and the innovation-performance relationship for the … innovation. After controlling for ownership types, industry and regional fixed-effects, key findings include: (i) R&D and … innovation activities not only stimulate firms' profitability and growth of sales, but also increase their survival propensity …
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