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Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation

, 1991
Recent ethnographic studies of workplace practices indicate that the ways people actually work usually differ fundamentally from the ways organizations describe that work in manuals, training programs, organizational charts, and job descriptions ...
J. Brown, P. Duguid
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Diffusion of Innovation

The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology, 2020
The February 2018 edition of Health Affairs focuses on the critical issue of diffusion of innovation within healthcare. With support from the Peterson Center on Healthcare, Blue Shield of California Foundation, The Leona M. and Harry B.
J. García-Avilés
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Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D

, 1989
The authors assume that firms invest in R&D not only to generate innovations, but also to learn from competitors and extraindustry knowledge sources (e.g., university and government labs).
Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal
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Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment

, 2005
Boschma R. A. (2005) Proximity and innovation: a critical assessment, Regional Studies39, 61-74. A key issue in economic geography is to determine the impact of geographical proximity on interactive learning and innovation.
R. Boschma
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Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology.

, 1996
This research was supported by grants provided to the first author by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona, and the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund and by grants to the second author by the College ...
W. Powell, K. Koput, Laurel Smith‐Doerr   +2 more
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Organizational Innovation: A Meta-Analysis Of Effects Of Determinants and Moderators

, 1991
A meta-analysis of the relationships between organizational innovation and 13 of its potential determinants resulted in statistically significant associations for specialization, functional differe...
F. Damanpour
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DETERMINANTS OF INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: A PATH MODEL OF INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION IN THE WORKPLACE

, 1994
The present study integrated a number of streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to develop and test a model of individual innovative behavior.
S. Scott, R. A. Bruce
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The Future of Innovation: Hyper Innovation, Slow Innovation, and No Innovation

BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 2017
We can observe an increasing innovation pace in economy and society which can be considered as the main trend most likely to continue also in the future. However, there are also some indications that in some areas it becomes more difficult to innovate and that we are entering a technological plateau.
Karl-Heinz Leitner, Karl-Heinz Leitner
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Innovation Shortfalls [PDF]

Review of Development Economics, 2005
There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an innovation shortfall, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (R&D) compared with some high-innovation countries.
Maloney, William, Rodriguez-Clare, Andres   +1 more
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The Management of Innovation

, 1994
The paper analyzes the organization of the RD (b) to rationalize commonly observed features in research employment contracts, such as shop rights, trailer clauses, and the "hired for" doctrine; (c) to discuss the robustness of the so-called Schumpeterian
P. Aghion, J. Tirole
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