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How Does Knowledge Transfer from Foreign Subsidiaries Affect Parent Companies' Innovative Capacity

Piscitello, Lucia; Pabbiosi, Larissa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

The paper addresses reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) from foreign subsidiary to parent company. Specifically, it aims at investigating to what extent the effectiveness of such a transfer is influenced by: (i) the organizational mechanisms employed for transferring knowledge; (ii) the...

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Innovation Clusters in Technological Systems: A Network Analysis of 15 OECD Countries for the Middle '90s

Montresor, Sandro; Marzetti, Giuseppe Vittucci - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

-economic", rather than “territorial" space is considered. Innovation clusters of economic sectors are identified by applying network …

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European Productivity Gaps Is R&D the Solution?

Meister, Christoph; Verspagen, Bart - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

This paper investigates the potential impact of increased business R&D efforts in Europe on the total factor productivity gap between European and U.S. industry. The paper addresses Europe’s ambition, expressed at the 2000 Lisbon Summit to become “the most competitive and dynamic...

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A Supply Side Story for a Threshold Model: Endogenous Growth of the Free and Open Source Community

Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two … technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with … Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers. …

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Services Innovation and Economic Performance An analysis at the firm level

Lopes, Luísa Ferreira; Godinho, Manuel Mira - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

We present a model that links innovation effort to economic performance, along the lines of the Crépon et al (1998 … examines the relationship between innovation and performance for services sectors. This is relevant since much effort has been … trying to fulfill this gap the paper uses firm-level data from the Second Community Innovation Survey to estimate a …

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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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Making Consumer Knowledge Available and Useful the case of the Computer Games Industry

Jeppesen, Lars Bo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

communication technology - on-line communities - to establish interfaces connecting them with consumers. Second, is firm’s ability …

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