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To innovate or not to innovate?
In this paper, we analyze the evolution of output decisions of adaptive firms in an environment of oligopolistic competition. The firm might either choose to produce one of several existing product variants or try to establish a new product variant on the market.
Reimann, M.+2 more
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Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation [PDF]
We develop a parsimonious model of innovation to confront firmlevel evidence. It captures the dynamics of individual heterogeneous firms, describes the behavior of an industry with firm entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological change.
Klette, Tor Jakob, Kortum, Samuel
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Innovation, innovation, innovation [PDF]
The financial crisis teaches us about the consequences of ignoring risks. We cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes for the continuing crises in energy and climate.
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Innovation, Innovativeness And Gender - Approaching Innovative Gender [PDF]
Abstract This paper deals with the attempt to search for the sources of creativity in the broad sense in solving problems. These creative solutions become innovations. The ability to develop innovation depends on the multi-dimensional predispositions to solve problems – those found in people, inspired by the market, organised or ...
Okoń-Horodyńska, Ewa+1 more
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The first article in the Innovative Practice section is a case study dealing with the way in which one family used interactive computer technologies to deal with the very real problems that some carers experience when the person for whom they care telephones them during the night because they need reassurance and are unsure what time it is.
Moriarty, J, Eagger, S
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The Innovation Threshold [PDF]
In this paper, we propose an economic model to analyse the sales out of new products. This model accounts for the fact that even among firms for which R&D is a permanent activity, a fraction of firms does not have sales of innovative products during a two-year observation period.
K. van Montfort+3 more
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Peut-être faut-il interpréter l’adoption du thème de l’innovation pour le premier dossier de la revue comme une affirmation existentielle, voire ontologique. Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère sont en effet un prolongement des précédents Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine (CRAU), mais où presque tout a ...
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We seek explanation for how a species with our complex social systems could have arisen. We argue that an “innovation innovation” took place during hominin evolution that decoupled organizational change from a Darwinian evolutionary process and underlies the forms of social organization we find in human societies today.
D. Read+2 more
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Agglomeration and Innovation [PDF]
Abstract This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated
Carlino, Gerald, Kerr, William
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