The role of institution-building in US industrial modernization programs
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The evaluation of industrial modernization programs is influenced by program design and objectives. Similar markets and customers are found to be effective factors in the performance evaluation of these programs. Likewise, programs catering to major companies and manufacturing enterprises of similar business are found to be more effective. The big companies can serve as intermediaries of technology transfer to small company participants. As suppliers, it is also at their discretion to grant compensation whenever small firms choose to apply technology innovations.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 1996
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Small and large firms: sources of unequal innovations?
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A direct relationship exists between the value of the innovations and the size of the innovating companies. Utilization of the SPRU innovations database containing 4378 vital technological innovations in the United Kingdom between 1945 and 1983 revealed that larger innovating firms tend to have higher innovations value than their smaller counterparts. Such relationship invalidates a widely held belief that small companies are more efficient innovators than large companies.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 1998
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