The risks of innovation : are innovating firms less likely to die ?
by Ana M Fernandes and Caroline Paunov WB Policy Research Papers No. WPS6103, June 2012 While innovation is a source of competitiveness, it may expose plants to survival risks. Using a rich set of plant-product data for Chilean manufacturing plants during the period 1996-2006 and discrete-time hazard models controlling for unobserved plant heterogeneity, this paper [...]
VARIETY OF SEARCH AND INNOVATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF US MANUFACTURING AND KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES SECTORS
by Andy Cosh and Joanne Zhang Centre for Business research, Cambridge University WP No. 431, March 2012 Whilst the variety of search activities promotes innovation, there is a central tension between a firm’s potential benefits from wide and diverse search activities and its ability to reap these potential benefits. In this paper, we argue that [...]
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES: EXPLORING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE
by Ben R Martin; Paul Nightingale and Alfredo Yegros-Yegros Centre for Business Research , Cambridge University WP no.427, September 2011 Science and Technology Studies (STS) is one of a number of new research fields to emerge over the last four or five decades. This paper attempts to identify its core academic contributions using the methodology [...]
Research Policy,Volume 41, Issue 7, Pages 1121-1282 (September 2012)
CONTENTS Exploring the emerging knowledge base of ‘the knowledge society’ Jan Fagerberg, Hans Landström, Ben R. Martin Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base Hans Landström, Gouya Harirchi, Fredrik Åström Science and technology studies: Exploring the knowledge base OBen R. Martin, Paul Nightingale, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros Knowledge flows – Analyzing the core literature of innovation, entrepreneurship and science [...]
Networks for Prosperity:Achieving Development Goals throughKnowledge Sharing
Published by UNIDO, 2011 This report intends to provide decision-makers with a basis for including knowledge management and knowledge networking in policy considerations related to development strategy, effectiveness and governance. It is not intended as a full, in-depth study of all the links between knowledge networking, network governance and private sector development, but it gives [...]
Will open access replace costly commercial publishing models?
by Vasudha Venugopal The Hindu, February 19, 2012. Cost of research journals going up while funds available are coming down … … Keywords: commercial publishing models, open access, digital libraries URL: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article2910344.ece Courtesy: The Hindu
Results of publicly funded research will be open access – UK Science Minister
Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 December 2011 16.41 GMT New policy announced by David Willetts to make research freely available challenges business models of academic publishers. The government has signalled a revolution in scientific publishing by throwing its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific research must be published in open-access journals. The [...]
Open Access Scholarship
Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor University of Hyderabad Date: 03-Oct-2011 This blog post about Open Access and Vidyanidhi Digital Library by is one of the early champions of Open Access including ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) movement in India—Prof. Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. URL: http://hcurocks.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/open-access-scholarship/ Courtesy: A Central University – The unofficial Blog of [...]
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain
By Jennifer Howard Date: 19-Sep-2011 Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating new ways to identify and analyze patterns in millions of [...]
KNOWLEDGE MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW KNOWLEDGE- BASED ECONOMY
Ani Matei, and Lucica Matei (2011) The purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the relation between knowledge and development in the new knowledge-based economy and to deduct the socio-economic basics of the public marketing strategies in this context. The particularity of this approach is due to the features of knowledge, seen as [...]