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The European railway sector has undergone major transformations over the past two decades. Domestic reforms have been buttressed by European directives aimed at creating a single European railway market. In this new environment roles have been significantl ...
This study compares the performance and the reproducibility of quantitative T2, T2* and the magnetisation transfer ratio (MTR) of articular cartilage at 7T and 3T. ...
Since the past decades, the postal sector is undergoing profound reform (liberalization). The major motivation for such reform processes was and still is the belief that liberalization and deregulation stimulates, among others, product and process innovati ...
Much evidence identifies innovation as the main driver for companies to prosper, grow, and sustain a high profitability. New innovation models of so called ‘Open Innovation’ make companies rethink their innovation management, as it is assumed, that the imp ...
Technology, knowledge and innovation play a crucial role in explaining the competitive potential of firms and countries in today’s globalised world. With lowered barriers to international activities, firms develop technological competencies abroad, either ...
Previous research has shown that innovation can have various sources and different forms. Innovation can thus be developed by different types of organizations or individuals for several reasons, and it can be related to product or process technologies. One ...
Corporate venture capital (CVC), direct minority equity investments made by established companies in privately held startups, has become an important strategic tool for many large companies. In particular, firms often pursue CVC investing as a way to learn ...
In a network industry like railways, major systemic innovations and new technological trajectories are tightly connected to national institutional frameworks and policies. The major transformation occurring in Europe brought by the liberalization and harmo ...
In order to cope with the challenges of climate change, fundamental changes are needed in established systems of service provision and consumption. A key rationale for climate policy making is that it induces firms and other actors to develop new ‘climate- ...
We investigate the intra-organizational antecedents of firm-level absorptive capacity (AC). Specifically, we examine how the functional areas of R&D, manufacturing and marketing contribute to the absorption of knowledge coming from different external knowl ...
