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Entrepreneurs' Networking Actions And Referral Based Search For New Exchange Partners
Jul 2008
Existing theories of inter-organizational relationship formation imply that decision makers use referrals from current partners to form new ones, leading to dense ties that aggregate into...
Provided by INSEAD
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Scouts And Integrators: The Joint Effect Of Network Density And Firm Centrality On Business Innovativeness In Buyer-Supplier Networks
Oct 2008
Several studies in the social networks literature suggest that more central firms in a given network will be more innovative, but the literature not considered how variation in network density...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Lessons From India In Organizational Innovation: A Tale Of Two Heart Hospitals
Oct 2008
Recent discussions in health reform circles have pinned great hopes on the prospect of innovation as the solution to the high-cost, inadequate-quality U.S. health system. But U.S. health care...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Physician-Industry Cooperation In The Medical Device Industry
Dec 2008
Anecdotal evidence suggests that innovative medical devices often arise from physicians' inventive activity, but no studies have documented the extent of such physician engaged innovation. This...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Liquidity Rules: Manage Innovation Or Risk Repeating History
May 2009
On the surface, the meltdown of the U.S. subprime mortgage market should not have triggered a worldwide financial crisis. Worst-case estimates put subprime mortgage losses at $250 billion - a drop...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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The Global "Idea" Market: Innovation And International Trade In Technology
Apr 2009
When we imagine international trade, we conjure up images of supertankers and massive container ships, or maybe ships laden with exotic cargoes of rum, coffee, and spices. But international trade...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Innovating Through Acquisition And Internal Development: A Quarter-Century Of Boundary Evolution At Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2010
This paper discusses how firms innovate within and across firm boundaries by reconfiguring their resources and business units over time. Focusing on acquisitions and internal development as key...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Softening The Blow Of Bad News
Oct 2007
Chief financial officers and investors focus on earnings per share more than any other single financial figure. Researchers in accounting have long confirmed that the price of a company's stock is...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Running Neck And Neck: Research And Development Races
Mar 2008
The dynamics of a sector caught up in research and development races such as these have intrigued economists and other business scholars for years. As such, the technology industry has been...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
Jan 2009
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today, and is in use even in the new Obama administration. The President is quite familiar with the term...
Provided by Stanford University
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All Entrepreneurship Is Social
Jan 2010
Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Enhancing Business Education For Rural Entrepreneurs
Apr 2009
PDA is a micro lender that provides villagers with loans free of the stringent collateral requirements of traditional banks. It also requires loan seekers to participate in a comprehensive...
Provided by Stanford University
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact Of Chinese Imports On Innovation And Information Technology
Feb 2009
There is a popular belief that Chinese imports have devastated US and European manufacturing and contributed to rising inequality. Somewhat paradoxically, the consensus amongst empirical...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Global Entrepreneurship Drives Sushi Success In Canada
May 2010
A global mindset allows global leaders to connect the dots between markets and to recognize gaps that may exist in one region but not another. Global entrepreneurship is the ability to convert...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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The Innovator's DNA
Jan 2010
A major new study involving some 3,500 executives has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop. The six-year-long research into disruptive innovation...
Provided by INSEAD
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Thunderbird, Fulbright And Entrepreneurship: A Powerful Combination
Apr 2010
A project to improve education in Mexico received the attention of scholars from all over the world March 26-29, 2010, when the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Tolerance Of Ambiguity And Entrepreneurial Innovation
Jun 2008
The paper builds a general equilibrium model of occupation choice, where the risks inherent in a technology embodying a new innovation are only vaguely known (ambiguous), whereas the old...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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The Interaction Between Personality, Social Network Position And Involvement In The Innovation Process
Oct 2009
This dissertation proposal investigates how personality and individuals' social network position affect individuals' involvement into the innovation process. It posits that people would feel...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Cost Innovation And The Dragons
Jan 2010
Cost innovation' sounds like an oxymoron. Most of ones associate innovation with greater functionality and sophistication. Mainland Chinese companies, however, are turning conventional business...
Provided by INSEAD
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Evidence-Based Management For Entrepreneurial Environments: Faster And Better Decisions With Less Risk
Mar 2010
Entrepreneurship is risky. Most new technologies and new businesses fail. Two things seem to be true. First, evidence-based management could improve entrepreneurial decision-making, reducing...
Provided by Stanford University
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The Equalizer': Measuring And Explaining The Impact Of Online Communities On Consumer Markets
Jan 2010
The objective is to examine how online communities affect the functioning of markets for durable goods with particular emphasis on markets that are both fragmented and diverse. The thesis is that...
Provided by INSEAD
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Beyond The Go Daddy Girl: Customer-Driven Innovation In A Connected World
Oct 2009
GoDaddy.com scored a marketing windfall in 2005 when Fox Network decided midgame to pull the company's racy commercial from the Super Bowl. The controversy propelled the Internet services company...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Innovation: Using Externally-Oriented Or ?X? Teams Can Prove A Winning Strategy
Jan 2010
Good teams can often fail when it comes to innovation. The reason such teams fail is not because of a lack of talent or they can't work together, but because they don't take into account external...
Provided by INSEAD
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Create The Right Sort Of Buzz About Your Products
Jan 2010
How important is word of mouth, more popularly known as buzz, for the success of the new products? Some companies rely on product placement in movies or the endorsement of a sports star or pop...
Provided by INSEAD
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At The Edge Of Product Development: Investment Or Innovation Sharing?
Jun 2007
Owing to complexity in technology and the need for better, faster, smarter product development models, businesses are finding new ways to innovate and collaborate in new product design and...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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The Innovation Value Chain
Jan 2010
Innovation isn't all about great ideas. INSEAD Professor of Entrepreneurship Morten Hansen and visiting professor Julian Birkinshaw argue that companies often fail because they don't recognise...
Provided by INSEAD
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Forums Vs. Fountains: Universities And The Evolution Of Knowledge Networks
Oct 2009
Universities can help boost a mature industrial economy by reinvigorating the flow of new ideas in the community. But universities can approach this task in different ways, each leading to vastly...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Powering The Google Engine: Innovation Is Key
Nov 2009
It's a $20 billion company with formidable staff strength of 20,000, but the spirit of innovation (and enterprise) is alive and well at Google Inc, 11 years after the company was founded by...
Provided by INSEAD
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The Second Global Forum For Business As An Agent Of World Benefit: Managing As Designing In An Era Of Massive Innovation
Jun 2009
On October 22nd 2006 the United Nations Global Compact, with its 4,000 corporations from around the world, and the Academy of Management, with its 19,000 business school professors from over 90...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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A New Era For Innovations
Jul 2009
Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster and advisor to private and government clients worldwide, says "if one is really determined to find that next big idea and time it right to make a difference, it...
Provided by INSEAD
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Eight Traits Shared By Global Entrepreneurs
Jul 2008
The author says entrepreneurs universally embrace change and take action. Dallas-based entrepreneur Scott Walker, the namesake of Thunderbird's entrepreneurship center, showed this quality when he...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Harnessing Creativity To Power Up The Economy
Jan 2009
The authors want to be thought of as being creative people, but, by and large, companies are not fostering creativity, but practically killing it ? through bureaucracy, through process-driven...
Provided by INSEAD
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Innovative Redesign Of Management Education To Transform The U.S. Form Of Disaster Capitalism Into Global Sustainable Capitalism
May 2009
The challenge of innovatively redesigning management education to prepare future leaders to transform the U.S. form of disaster capitalism into global sustainable capitalism is vividly...
Provided by Wright State University
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From Farm To Fork: innovations In The Chicago Food Industry
Mar 2010
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) are pleased to sponsor and present this White Paper,...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Jordan Develops Entrepreneurs, Not Oilfields
Mar 2009
This paper states Jordan lacks the oil of other Middle Eastern countries. So the small kingdom north of Saudi Arabia focuses instead on developing human resources more than natural resources. The...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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A Practical Guide To Managing Innovation
Jul 2009
What does innovation mean? It used to relate mainly to products, and that's still important. But over the last decade or so, businesses have been putting more and more emphasis on innovating new...
Provided by INSEAD
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Technological Innovation In The Middle East
Jan 2010
When one think of the regions of the world that are pushing ahead with technological innovation, one would not necessarily think of the Middle East straightaway. But according to a recent global...
Provided by INSEAD
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Innovating Your Way To The Top
Jan 2009
With the global economic slowdown, the need for innovation is even greater today. If one is looking to maintain their market share, and perhaps post growth despite the recessionary environment,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Responding To Rivals And Compliments: How Market Concentration Shapes Generational Product Innovation Strategy
Feb 2009
This paper examines how competitive market conditions shape the responsiveness with which businesses release Generational Product Innovations (GPIs) following the introduction of GPIs by either...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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IDC - Insight: The Critical Path to Competitive Differentiation for Growing Companies
Jul 2010
Insight is important to any organization. But to small businesses and midsize companies, it's critical. Read this informative IDC executive brief and learn which questions your long-term business...
Provided by SAP
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On Indias Plunge Into Nanotechnology: What Are Good Ways To Catch-up?
Jul 2010
The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. The authors' study shows that both upstream scientific and technological capabilities and...
Provided by United Nations University
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Beyond Knowledge Brokerage: An Exploratory Study Of Innovation Intermediaries In An Evolving Smallholder Agricultural System In Kenya
Jun 2011
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary...
Provided by United Nations University
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Dynamics Of Biosciences Regulation And Opportunities For Biosciences Innovation In Africa: Exploring Regulatory Policy Brokering
Jun 2011
Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of...
Provided by United Nations University
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The When And Where Of Research In Agricultural Innovation Trajectories: Evidence And Implications From Rius South Asia Projects
Jun 2011
The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer...
Provided by United Nations University
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Innovation And Diffusion Of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?
Jun 2011
This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "Inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third...
Provided by United Nations University
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Innovation Pathways And Policy Challenges At The Regional Level: Smart Specialisation
Jun 2011
This paper highlights the great diversity in development pathways and trajectories of innovation across European regions. A regional knowledge-based economy has multidimensional aspects. It...
Provided by United Nations University
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Measuring The Returns To R&D
Jan 2010
The authors review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and...
Provided by United Nations University
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How Firms Innovate: R&D, Non-R&D, And Technology Adoption
Apr 2010
Non-R&D innovation is a common economic phenomenon, though R&D has been the central focus of policy making and scholarly research in the field of innovation. An analysis of the third European...
Provided by United Nations University
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New Organisational And Institutional Vehicles For Managing Innovation In South Asia: Opportunities For Using Research For Technical Change And Social Gain
Oct 2010
This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in order to put research into use for social gain. There no longer remains any...
Provided by United Nations University
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Bigger Is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity And Innovation
Oct 2008
This paper proposes a novel mechanism whereby larger markets increase competition and facilitate process innovation. Larger markets, in the sense of more people or more open trade, support a...
Provided by IMDEA
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Innovating In The Periphery: Firms, Values, And Innovation In Southwest Norway
Oct 2009
How do peripheral and relatively isolated regions innovate? Recent research has tended to stress the importance of agglomeration economies and geographical proximity as key motors of innovation....
Provided by IMDEA
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Do Clusters Generate Greater Innovation And Growth? An Analysis Of European Regions
Jul 2010
The analysis of clusters has attracted considerable interest over the last few decades. The articulation of clusters into complex networks and systems of innovation - generally known as regional...
Provided by IMDEA
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When Local Interaction Does Not Suffice: Sources Of Firm Innovation In Urban Norway
Feb 2011
The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical proximity within city-regions is key for the innovative capacity of firms, the...
Provided by IMDEA
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Cumulative Innovation, Experimentation And The Hold-Up Problem
Apr 2008
Extending the basic model of two-stage cumulative innovation with asymmetric information to include 'Experimentation' by second-stage firms, the authors find that the costs of a strong (versus...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Carbon Markets And Technological Innovation
Aug 2009
This paper examines the effects of firm-level innovation in carbon-abatement technologies on optimal cap-and-trade schemes with and without price controls. The authors characterize optimal...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Dominance And Innovation
Jan 2010
Do dominant or less dominant firms innovate more? Theoretically it has been shown that within an asymmetric mixed strategy game of a patent race, the less dominant firm invests more than the...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Understanding The Spanish Business Innovation Gap: The Role Of Spillovers And Firms' Absorptive Capacity
Jun 2010
This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to assimilate them and disparities in some human resource management practices are...
Provided by Banco de España
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How To Measure The Outcome Of Innovations: Application To Product Innovations
Apr 2008
This paper provided a conceptual framework to quantify consumer gains from product innovations. Using an example of VCRs, the authors illustrate a model that is useful to measure consumer welfare,...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Bank Consolidation And New Business Formation
Jun 2007
As the trend of bank consolidation activities continues to grow in the U.S. and globally, the debate on the impact of such consolidation on small business credits and activities are still...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Innovative Product R&D - The Value Of Project Management Practice In China
Jan 2009
Project Management is more than delivering project deliverables on time, under budget, with quality specified. A majority of project assignments were "Missions Impossible" to Project Managers and...
Provided by PM World Today
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Innovation & Project Management - Exploring The Links
Apr 2009
If innovation was traditionally seen as technology-led, it now covers a much broader canvas. Innovation is possibly best defined as the exploration and exploitation of new ideas in pursuit of a...
Provided by PM World Today
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Aggregation In Large Dynamic Panels
Jan 2011
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Beyond The DSGE Straightjacket
Apr 2011
Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Innovation, Collective Action And Network Positioning: A Case From The Automotive Industry
Jul 2009
Cooperation in industrial networks is a key issue within the conceptual framework developed by the IMP Group. Despite the existence of some studies, little attention has been paid to collective...
Provided by University of Porto
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Seeking For Competitiveness - New Service Development In Networks
Sep 2009
The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into possibilities offered by the network approach in new service development as a source to increase service providers' competitiveness. The paper...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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Unveiling The Importance Of Being A Preferred Customer In Order To Develop Innovations With Suppliers
Aug 2010
The purpose of this research is to understand why early supplier integration in new product development repeatedly fails and how to select the right suppliers to avoid supplier obstructionism. The...
Provided by University of Twente
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The Use Of Technological Systems To Explain The Development Of Complex Technological Innovations
Aug 2010
Technology is considered as the hallmark of progress in developing and advanced economies. Research at the macro and micro economic levels shows the importance of R&D in world competition....
Provided by Bordeaux University School of Management
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Four Roles Lead Users Have To Play In The Multi-Actor Innovation Process
Aug 2010
The nature of customer involvement in new-product development has generated considerable work in marketing. Traditional marketing management approaches consider the customer to be passive, with...
Provided by IMP Group
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Critical Evaluation Of Service Innovation Processes
Aug 2010
Outsourcing is increasing the complexity of a firm's service network. As a phenomenon, outsourcing is well researched but it is seldom regarded as innovative practice. The authors know little...
Provided by Jönköping International Business School
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Managing Multilayered Innovation Processes: Challenges Related To Embeddedness In Time And Space
Aug 2010
From organizational theory the authors know that firms tend to prioritize problems that are close in time and space. This paper develops a framework in order to understand how an innovation...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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Privatization Of Knowledge: Did The U.S. Get It Right? (New Version)
Mar 2011
To foster innovation and growth should basic research be publicly or privately funded? This paper studies the impact of the gradual shift in the U.S. patent system towards the patentability and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Innovation And Corporate Dynamics: A Theoretical Framework
Apr 2011
The authors provide a detailed analysis of a Generalized Proportional Growth Model (GPGM) of innovation and corporate dynamics that encompasses the Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect and the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Using Case Data To Calibrate Simulation Models: An Innovation Network For Thin-Film Solar Technology
Aug 2010
Simulation can offer insight that helps researchers understand innovation networks. However, a challenge for researchers using simulation is the calibration of these models. Calibration uses real...
Provided by University of Western Sydney
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The Effect Of National Culture On Countries? Innovation Efficiency
Apr 2011
This paper contributes to the link between social and cultural factors with countries innovation performance. By measuring 25 countries' innovation efficiency with the use of conditional and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Effect Of Microaggregation On Regression Results: An Application To Spanish Innovation Data
Apr 2011
Microaggregation is a technique for masking confidential data by aggregation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the extent to which microaggregated data can be used for rigorous empirical...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Innovating Like China: A Theory Of Stage-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights
Apr 2011
Inspired by the Chinese experience, the authors develop a Schumpeterian growth model of distance to frontier in which economic growth in the developing country is driven by domestic innovation as...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Impact Of Science And Technology Parks On Firms´ Product Innovation: Empirical Evidence From Spain
May 2011
Science and Technology Parks (STP) are one of the most important and extensive innovation policy initiatives introduced in recent years. This paper evaluates the impact of STP on firm product...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Reading' The Business Landscape - When Business Networks Are Supposed To Be Affected By Innovation Policy
Aug 2010
To contribute to the development of innovative and prospering companies has become one of the most important contemporary policy issues, on national as well as trans-national levels. This implies...
Provided by Uppsala University
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The Innovation Adoption/diffusion And The Industrial Network Approaches: A Conceptual And Empirical Comparison
Aug 2010
Innovation adoption and diffusion as a construct has been studied within various disciplines for several decades (for a review see e.g., Greenhalgh, Robert, MacFarlane, Bate & Kyriakidou 2004;...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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Studying Innovation Processes In Real-Time
Aug 2010
It has recently been argued that there is a mismatch between the knowledge of innovation processes and the methods commonly employed to study them (Sørensen et al., 2010). However, while Sørensen...
Provided by Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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Cost Innovation And The Dragons
Jan 2010
Cost innovation' sounds like an oxymoron. Most of ones associate innovation with greater functionality and sophistication. Mainland Chinese companies, however, are turning conventional business...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Evidence-Based Management For Entrepreneurial Environments: Faster And Better Decisions With Less Risk
Mar 2010
Entrepreneurship is risky. Most new technologies and new businesses fail. Two things seem to be true. First, evidence-based management could improve entrepreneurial decision-making, reducing...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
The Equalizer': Measuring And Explaining The Impact Of Online Communities On Consumer Markets
Jan 2010
The objective is to examine how online communities affect the functioning of markets for durable goods with particular emphasis on markets that are both fragmented and diverse. The thesis is that...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Beyond The Go Daddy Girl: Customer-Driven Innovation In A Connected World
Oct 2009
GoDaddy.com scored a marketing windfall in 2005 when Fox Network decided midgame to pull the company's racy commercial from the Super Bowl. The controversy propelled the Internet services company...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Innovation: Using Externally-Oriented Or ?X? Teams Can Prove A Winning Strategy
Jan 2010
Good teams can often fail when it comes to innovation. The reason such teams fail is not because of a lack of talent or they can't work together, but because they don't take into account external...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Create The Right Sort Of Buzz About Your Products
Jan 2010
How important is word of mouth, more popularly known as buzz, for the success of the new products? Some companies rely on product placement in movies or the endorsement of a sports star or pop...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
At The Edge Of Product Development: Investment Or Innovation Sharing?
Jun 2007
Owing to complexity in technology and the need for better, faster, smarter product development models, businesses are finding new ways to innovate and collaborate in new product design and...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
The Innovation Value Chain
Jan 2010
Innovation isn't all about great ideas. INSEAD Professor of Entrepreneurship Morten Hansen and visiting professor Julian Birkinshaw argue that companies often fail because they don't recognise...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Forums Vs. Fountains: Universities And The Evolution Of Knowledge Networks
Oct 2009
Universities can help boost a mature industrial economy by reinvigorating the flow of new ideas in the community. But universities can approach this task in different ways, each leading to vastly...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Powering The Google Engine: Innovation Is Key
Nov 2009
It's a $20 billion company with formidable staff strength of 20,000, but the spirit of innovation (and enterprise) is alive and well at Google Inc, 11 years after the company was founded by...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
The Second Global Forum For Business As An Agent Of World Benefit: Managing As Designing In An Era Of Massive Innovation
Jun 2009
On October 22nd 2006 the United Nations Global Compact, with its 4,000 corporations from around the world, and the Academy of Management, with its 19,000 business school professors from over 90...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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White Papers
A New Era For Innovations
Jul 2009
Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster and advisor to private and government clients worldwide, says "if one is really determined to find that next big idea and time it right to make a difference, it...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Eight Traits Shared By Global Entrepreneurs
Jul 2008
The author says entrepreneurs universally embrace change and take action. Dallas-based entrepreneur Scott Walker, the namesake of Thunderbird's entrepreneurship center, showed this quality when he...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Harnessing Creativity To Power Up The Economy
Jan 2009
The authors want to be thought of as being creative people, but, by and large, companies are not fostering creativity, but practically killing it ? through bureaucracy, through process-driven...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Innovative Redesign Of Management Education To Transform The U.S. Form Of Disaster Capitalism Into Global Sustainable Capitalism
May 2009
The challenge of innovatively redesigning management education to prepare future leaders to transform the U.S. form of disaster capitalism into global sustainable capitalism is vividly...
Provided by Wright State University
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White Papers
From Farm To Fork: innovations In The Chicago Food Industry
Mar 2010
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) are pleased to sponsor and present this White Paper,...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Jordan Develops Entrepreneurs, Not Oilfields
Mar 2009
This paper states Jordan lacks the oil of other Middle Eastern countries. So the small kingdom north of Saudi Arabia focuses instead on developing human resources more than natural resources. The...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Technological Innovation In The Middle East
Jan 2010
When one think of the regions of the world that are pushing ahead with technological innovation, one would not necessarily think of the Middle East straightaway. But according to a recent global...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Innovating Your Way To The Top
Jan 2009
With the global economic slowdown, the need for innovation is even greater today. If one is looking to maintain their market share, and perhaps post growth despite the recessionary environment,...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Responding To Rivals And Compliments: How Market Concentration Shapes Generational Product Innovation Strategy
Feb 2009
This paper examines how competitive market conditions shape the responsiveness with which businesses release Generational Product Innovations (GPIs) following the introduction of GPIs by either...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
IDC - Insight: The Critical Path to Competitive Differentiation for Growing Companies
Jul 2010
Insight is important to any organization. But to small businesses and midsize companies, it's critical. Read this informative IDC executive brief and learn which questions your long-term business...
Provided by SAP
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Innovation, Diffusion, And Trade: Theory And Measurement
Jul 2010
Growth and imports are correlated across countries. However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. The author develops a general equilibrium model in which imports and growth are...
Provided by INSEAD
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Recruiting For Ideas: How Firms Exploit The Prior Inventions Of New Hires
Mar 2010
When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits'...
Provided by INSEAD
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Idea Generation And The Quality Of The Best Idea
Dec 2009
In a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem - ideas - and then select a few for further development. The authors examine the effectiveness of...
Provided by INSEAD
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Lone Inventors As Source Of Breakthroughs: Myth Or Reality?
Jun 2009
Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has...
Provided by INSEAD
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Recruiting For Ideas: A Difference-in-Differences Approach For Estimating The Effect Of Mobility On Access To An Inventor~s Prior Knowledge
Aug 2009
When firms recruit inventors, they may acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of prior ideas. In this paper, the authors examine the extent to which...
Provided by INSEAD
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Toward A Theory Of Business Model Innovation Within Incumbent Firms
Mar 2009
This paper presents a theory of business model innovation (BMI) within incumbent firms. The process of business model change is examined, with particular attention to business units in a multi...
Provided by INSEAD
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Leadership Coaching And Organizational Transformation: Effectiveness In A World Of Paradoxes
Nov 2008
The objective of this paper is to describe the unique leadership coaching approach of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC). (IGLC) has become a brand recognized throughout the world,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Lone Inventors As Sources Of Breakthroughs: Myth Or Reality?
Oct 2008
How does collaboration influence creativity and, in particular, the invention of breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative...
Provided by INSEAD
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The REACH Directive And Its Impact On The European Chemical Industry: A Critical Review
Apr 2008
The REACH Directive, requiring the registration and testing of more than 30,000 existing chemical substances prior to selling them in the European Union, has been very controversial from its...
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Increasing Change Readiness In Higher Educational Institutions Through A Simulation-Based Change Management Experience
Apr 2008
Although higher educational institutions are increasingly faced with demands for deep changes and innovations, they have a very distinctive culture which makes rapid change difficult. In order to...
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Where Do Creative Interactions Come From? The Role Of Tie Content And Social Networks
Feb 2008
Understanding the determinants of creativity at the individual and organizational level has been the focus of a long history of research in various disciplines from the social sciences, but little...
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Innovation And Imitation: How Entrepreneurs Impact Economic Growth
Nov 2008
What or rather who contributed to China's economic miracle? A good deal of research on economic growth focuses on spending in research and development (R&D) with its ability to produce...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Service Quality, Productivity, And Innovation
Jul 2009
While the U.S. economy has been dominated by services for many decades, understanding issues of service provision has lagged traditional goods-based research (e.g. Brown and Bitner 2006). Issues...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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The Nature And Experience Of Entrepreneurial Passion
Jul 2009
Dating back to Schumpeter's early writings, the idea of entrepreneurial passion has been invoked to explain entrepreneurial behaviors that defy reason such as unconventional risk taking and an...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: The Extreme Pizza Rule
Jul 2010
"Keep your friends close, and your franchisees closer." - The Extreme Pizza Rule. Todd Parent learned the ins-and-outs of his business before he started his company, even though it meant starting...
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Entrepreneurial Expertise: What's In A Name?
Jun 2010
Choosing a name for a business could be a make or break decision. Divya Gugnani, CEO of the culinary company "Behind The Burner", provides tips on how to come up with a name that will draw...
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Elevator Pitch: Purse Flats
May 2010
Shoes that fold up and fit in a purse! For some women, it may be the perfect solution for a night out. Erika Wilson, the founder of Purse Flats, tells the elevator pitch panel why they should...
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Small Business Rules: The Good Worldwide Rule
Mar 2010
"Learn quickly." - The Good Worldwide Rule. After founder of INC Magazine Bernie Goldhirsh passed away, his son Ben Goldhirsh had the connection to do almost anything he wanted, and so he created...
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Small Business Rules : The Art Lewin Rule
Mar 2010
"Old School has become the new school" - Art Lewin Executive Clothiers Rule. Art Lewin literally had nothing when he came to the U.S. from Chile in 1977. These days he's running Art Lewin and Co....
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