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Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D the role of Relational Research Capacity

Cusmano, Lucia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...

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Firm Assets and Investments in Open Source Software Products

Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco S.; Luzzi, Alessandra - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

Open source software (OSS) has recently emerged as a new way to organize innovation and product development in the …

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Clusters and Knowledge Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation

Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Andersand; Maskell, Peter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to...

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Understanding absorptive capacities in an "innovation systems" context consequences for economic and employment growth

Narula, Rajneesh - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro –level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity...

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The Further the Better? Knowledge Intensive Service Firms' Collaboration on Innovation

Vinding, Anker Lund; Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than … firms with a relatively low level of absorptive capacity; ii) given that the firms collaborate on innovation, the main … innovation partner of knowledge intensive service firms with a high level of absorptive capacity is likely to be located further …

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Why Technological Spillovers elude Developing Countries A Dynamic Non-linear Model

Wamae, Watu - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

context of developing countries. The main aim of the paper consists in investigating the impact of domestic innovation, via … domestic innovation, a critical component for the development of an absorptive capacity, is a significant determinant of …

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Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Financing Constraints

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …

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Interactive Learning Spaces and Development Policies in Latin America

Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

The emergent “learning economy” is truly global in the sense that it deeply affects the whole world. The emergence of “learning societies”, though, is a process that takes place only in some regions, the patterns followed by this highly complex social process being far from converging....

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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting

Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then...

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