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The Determinants of Innovation.

Christopher Freeman
- 01 Jun 1979 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 3, pp 206-215
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The influence of the market may vary greatly, with cyclic changes (birth, growth, and decline) and discontinuities in industry, and chance plays a far greater role in competitive survival and growth than it is comfortable to admit.
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Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: the allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how the history of innovation studies for sustainable development can be explained as a process of linking broader analytical frameworks to successively larger problem framings, and introduce an emerging framework whose allure rests in its ability to capture the bigger picture: the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions.
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Open innovation: The next decade

TL;DR: The contribution and evolution of open innovation since the publication of Chesbrough's 2003 Open Innovation book, and suggest likely directions going forward, are reviewed in this paper, where they link the articles of this special issue to three key trends in open innovation research: better measurement, resolving the role of appropriability and linking that research to the management and economics literature.
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Patents and the measurement of technological change: A survey of the literature☆

TL;DR: It seems necessary to utilize the data at the lowest possible level of aggregation to overcome the problems of validity, and the research directed at improving the quality of the patent statistics as a technology indicator is reviewed.
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Networks, firm size and innovation

TL;DR: This paper investigated the determinants of innovation using survey data on Australian firms and found evidence of persistence in innovative activities and that the use of networks is associated with innovation in some sector-firm size categories.
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Balancing Internal and External Knowledge Acquisition: The Gains and Pains from R&D Outsourcing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that these gains from R&D outsourcing need to be balanced against the "pains" that stem from a dilution of firm-specific resources, the deterioration of integrative capabilities and the high demands on management attention.
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The structure of scientific revolutions

TL;DR: The structure of scientific revolutions (1962) / Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) is a book about the history of science and its discontents.
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Financial ratios, discriminant analysis and the prediction of corporate bankruptcy

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of financial and economic ratios are investigated in a bankruptcy prediction context wherein a multiple discriminant statistical methodology is employed, and the data used in the study are limited to manufacturing corporations, where an initial sample of sixty-six firms is utilized to establish a function which best discriminates between companies in two mutually exclusive groups: bankrupt and nonbankrupt firms.
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The Long Waves in Economic Life

TL;DR: The idea that the dynamics of economic life in the capitalistic social order is not of a simple and linear but rather of a complex and cyclical character is nowadays generally recognized.