In order to develop an innovation in a large, mature organization, individuals often have to go underground, secretly undertaking ?bootleg? R&D activities that have no formal organizational support. As yet, there have been few studies that examine how such efforts shape the ability of an individual to generate innovations for their organization. We argue that these underground R&D efforts will ...

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We compare the computational effectiveness of two different approaches to the autocalibration of environmental models: algorithms based on gridding the input parameter set; and genetic or evolutionary algorithms (GAs). Dramatic steps were taken to reduce the total run-time per simulation of the selected complex model in the calibration phase: a model that takes a few seconds per run can be cali...

We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and innovative performance, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are more likely to report expenditures on in-licensing and for those firms that do incur license costs we...

Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms’ innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry suggest that firms that craft organizational competen...

In this work, we attempt to associate firm characteristics with innovative activity. We collect microdata from listed firms of selected Eurozone Country-members, after the beginning of 2007 financial crisis. The following literature, several indicators of growth and performance were selected and tested for their ability to interpret innovative activity. The main scope is to examine the possible...

the aim of this paper was to study knowledge intensive entrepreneurship role in innovative performance in agricultural technology management by entrepreneurial r&d; definition implementing as a casual-effect research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research specialists in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25)...