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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Appropriability"”.
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Exploring the Logics of Openness and Appropriability in Innovation - Investigating how Firms Manage Value Processes
… entails. The interplay between openness and appropriability also remains underexplored, particularly how openness shapes value capture and how appropriation mechanisms limit or enable openness. This thesis addresses these gaps by asking: How do organizations balance openness and …
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Essays on entrepreneurial strategy and performance
… essay considers how the endogenous nature of appropriability impacts entrepreneurial strategy and performance. This study focuses on the entrepreneur's choice between investing their time and scarce resources in ensuring appropriability versus investing in the execution and operation of their …
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Real options in value appropriation: Theory and evidence from patent strategies
… an exemplar of the value of such real options in appropriability strategies. As a primary hypothesis, I propose that the greater the risk of technology disclosure to rivals due to patenting, the more likely that firms purchase “secrecy options” to retain secrecy of inventions while attempting to …
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The Narrative of the ‘new' South Africa: Bearing Witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its 20th Anniversary
… ‘traditional' pan-African ubuntu - and its (in)appropriability on the lived level (Sauter, 2015:190). I use Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele's quasi-literary, quasi-academic engagement with the TRC and the ‘unintelligible' truth of an-‘other' in There was this Goat: Investigating …
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Technology strategy and innovation management in the petroleum industry
… to ideas, innovation and technology, and a low appropriability regime for technology. The thesis points to weaknesses and problems related to the present strategy. The present strategy is weak in competitive advantage. The free and effective market that underpins the user strategy is vulnerable. …
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COLLABORATING TO RUIN? US NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
… and development establishment. To achieve better appropriability, this finding and its contextual factors are used to demarcate areas of inquiry where Russian-US engagement has an empirical track record of utility and should continue from areas where collaboration has had little success.
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An investigation into the determinants of innovation in the New Zealand biotechnology sector
… effect of demand, technological opportunity and appropriability are also reported. The analysis in this thesis confirms the importance of most of the innovation determinants included in the framework. It also provides a detailed examination of the biotechnology sector and empirical insights into …
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Technology strategy : real options in research, development and engineering
… firms is most successfully achieved via high appropriability and development of a large set of complementary assets. The thesis also shows that a firm should use a mix of those assets depending on the technology development stage. Next the thesis investigates profit extraction in depth. The …
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Exploring the Open Source Hardware phenomenon: Empirical essays on the role of user communities in the creation of innovation, organizations and markets
… and ultimately the acceptance of the market. Appropriability is central to the commercialization of products, but conflicts with the free revealing of products’ designs. The second empirical study aims to shed light on this tension and to answer how the physical nature of open source products …
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Essays on the economics of renewable energy
… solar and wind projects. I further assess the appropriability of experience by considering the transfer of knowledge within and across firms. Results suggest that generation experience on a particular project leads to higher productivity at that project but not at other sites. Installation …