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As the circular economy (CE) is a viable solution to address environmental issues, academics and policy makers aim to have a better understanding of the drivers and barriers related to its development. Nonetheless, what is still missing in this discussion is what governance arrangements at the micro level would be conducive for the CE. In other wor...
Comment enseigne-t-on la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) dans les Business Schools ? Cette question, essentielle de nos jours, est traitée dans cet ouvrage à partir de l'exemple et de l'expérience de l'ESDES qui depuis plus de 30 ans s'est donnée comme raison d'être de changer le Monde en changeant les comportements des dirigeants. Il...
Circular economy, environmental innovation, frugal innovation, complex innovator.
This paper aims to remind the contribution of professor Nick von Tunzelamnn (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK) recently died. We give information on the man and his work. Finally we emphasize two aspects of his intellectual legacy: the implications of time-saving innovations and the economic importance of innovations in Low-Tech industries.
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Both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversity determine firms’ value creation, yet their relationship and links to innovation remain uncertain, especially for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Anchored in strategic CSR and value-in-diversity perspectives, this study relies on a sample of 1,348 SMEs from Luxembourg to reveal that...
This paper analyzes the factors that could drive more innovation in Africa and the least developed economies. First of all, the importance of a National Innovation System is mentioned. The new models of innovation around the concept of frugal innovation have a strong capacity for renewal and enrichment of innovation activities. Local systems of pro...
Knowledge Recombination as a Past and Path Dependent Process: Clarification and Implications for Management
We discuss the characteristics and the properties of the model of new knowledge creation known as recombination popularized by Fleming works. We contribute to the literature by suggesting understanding recombination as a process both past dep...
We discuss the characteristics and the properties of the model of new knowledge creation known as recombination popularized by Fleming works. We contribute to the literature by suggesting understanding recombination as a process both past dependent and path dependent whereas the literature uses simple the later. We analyze some of its implications...
A growing body of literature concerns innovation persistence, but does not deal with environmental innovation, which is an important topic in the context of global warming. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by testing whether environmental innovators are persistent. Our empirical approach rests on the use of Community Innovation Surve...
The few studies that analyze the impact of a combined strategy of innovation and corporate social
responsibility (CSR) on firm performance mostly focus on financial performance. In contrast, the current study considers the simultaneous impact of technological innovations (product and process) and CSR on firm growth, which provides a measure of medi...
This paper aims to fill a gap in the field of determinants of environmental innovation by investigating whether non-technological innovations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) matter for environmental innovation. Our empirical analysis studies a sample of innovators from Luxembourg. We draw on the Community Innovation Survey 2008 and a CSR...
This paper aims to fill a gap in the field of determinants of environmental innovation by investigating whether non-technological innovations and corporate social responsibility matter for environmental innovation. Our empirical analysis studies a sample of innovators from Luxembourg. We draw on the Community Innovation Survey and a corporate socia...
This paper deals with frugal innovation and its emerging place in the landscape of innovation studies. The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of what frugal innovation is. We begin by reviewing what the literature tells us. Then we consider the hypothesis that it should be defined as a technological paradigm, in the sense of Dos...
In this paper, we address the determinants of clean energy inventions by 946 large firms. We use a new set of large firms’ patent portfolios and we broaden and deepen existing literature on this issue in two main ways: first, we conduct our study directly at the firm level and not at the industry or national levels and second, we do not focus on a...
Prolific Inventors as Determinants of Firms’ Technological Performances
The paper draws on the stream of recent literature emphasizing the importance of very productive individuals for explaining firms’ innovative performance. Our contribution is threefold: we study the performance of firms in their dominant technological field, we survey all firms...
EnglishOur research focuses on the strategy of innovation protection. The empirical context of the study is a SME in e-medicine. Our main results are: 1) a SME deliberately uses jointly patent, design, trade mark for protecting its innovation; 2) the academic notoriety of the medical research team sets up an important asset; 3) the assets of intell...
We consider the commitment of large firms with high R&D investments
to the development of technologies of climate change mitigation related to the production or storage of energy. We analyze such climate change mitigation technologies
focused on energy production and storage (energy CCMT) across the globe with the
aim of assessing whether the Kyoto...
This paper analyses the determinants of different organisational techniques dedicated to creativity by stressing the crucial role played by the dynamic innovative capacities of firms in this process. In particular, we show that the impact of creativity methods varies with the type of innovator (product versus process; single versus complex). We use...
Frugal Innovation: New Opportunity for Developing Countries
New kinds of innovations originating from less developed countries, more affordable and less intensive in resources, are making their way into the global market. It can be seen as a set of individual successes or as a new model of innovation with a wide potential of diffusion. This model h...
Reverse Innovation: Conceptual Clarification and Statistical Assessment
In this paper we review the literature dealing with “reverse innovation”. We particularly emphasize the definition, the consequences, the implications for RandD internationalization, and the issues related to global innovation management. The weak rate of economic growth is als...
The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into (1) the determinants of the value of inventions and (2) the role that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one te...
Les problèmes ne sont presque jamais donnés, mais doivent être définis et contextualisés par le décideur (Marengo, 1995). Dans ce texte nous proposons une vision du rôle des managers dans le processus de croissance/développement des connaissances des organisations fondée sur la théorie des organisations et l'analyse évolutionniste de la firme. L'ét...
The main rationale of the patent system is based on its dynamic efficiency. By providing firms with incentives to invest in R&D and to disclose their knowledge, patents encourage innovation and increase social welfare in the long run. In this work, which reviews the most recent literature on patents, we show that patents can have a significant nega...
La nécessité d’intégrer les exigences liées aux responsabilités sociales et environnementales des firmes se traduit par des modèles d’affaires qui accordent davantage d’importance à la préservation de l’environnement. Le système de production actuel et les technologies devraient changer radicalement pour limiter les impacts sur l’environnement sans...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to test the major determinants of technological (product and process) innovation persistence and provides evidence of the significant role of organizational innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
– Data came from two waves of the Luxembourg Community Innovation Survey (CIS): CIS2006 for 2004-2006 and CIS2008...
This paper tests the major determinants of technological (both product and process) innovation persistence and provides evidence of the significant role of organizational innovation.
Data stem from two waves of the Luxembourgish Community Innovation Survey (CIS), CIS2006 for the period from 2004 to 2006 and CIS2008 for 2006 to 2008. The longitudina...
The aim of the paper is to track the scale and the strategy of European multinational firms related to the internationalization of their R&D. We address two questions: 1. Can we confirm the general view assuming a growing trend in the internationalisation of technology? 2. Does the “home base augmenting” dominant strategy observed in the 1990s stil...
This paper addresses the internationalisation of R&D of large multinational firms by analysing their patents from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It highlights three major results. Firstly it does not reveal any significant increase of the global rate of R&D internationalisation, which remains at around 23%. This means that the national base remain...
This paper introduces the special issue on innovation persistence. It delineates three complementary theoretical frameworks assessing drivers and implications of innovation persistence: ‘knowledge accumulation’ approach, the ‘success-breeds-success’ hypothesis and the concept of sunk costs in R&D activities. It emphasizes how path dependence could...
This paper examines the persistence of innovation behaviour at the firm level (manufacturing and services sectors). We attempt to answer the question: does being successful in past innovation activities increase the probability of being successful in current innovation activities? We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguishing between...
The standard view of patents emphasizes their dynamic efficiency. It considers that, by providing firms with incentives to invest in R&D and to disclose their knowledge, patents encourage innovation and increase social welfare in the long run. Yet, a growing body of literature opposes this view and asks for patent reform or even for the abolition o...
The few studies that analyze the impact of a combined strategy of innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm performance mostly focus on financial performance. In contrast, the current study considers the simultaneous impact of technological innovations (product and process) and CSR on firm growth, which provides a measure of medi...
This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms, the authors identify two types of firms (strategic versus responsive) that differ in the intensity of...
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Despite the increased strategic importance of environmental innovation on the one hand and corporate social responsibility on the other, there are still few studies that show firm voluntary measures create a primary determinant of environmental changes. First, we clarify the meaning of voluntary measures and CSR. Second, we utilize a survey carried...
In this paper we picture and compare national systems of innovation of four Asian countries (China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan) with some characteristics of their prolific inventors. The evolutionary model of the growth of knowledge through recombination enables us to explain the inventor productivity, mobility as well as their mobility and the value of...
This paper provides new insights into the role of individual inventors inthe innovation process. Individuals are central in this creative process becauseinnovation is not simply a product of firms and organizations; it requiresindividual creativity (Rothaermel and Hess, 2007). We focus our analysis on prolific inventors (a rich sub category of inve...
We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of inventors from those countries between 1975 and 2010 to investigate the role that mobility plays in the behaviou...
Organizational innovation favors technological innovation, but does it also influence technological innovation persistence? This article investigates empirically the pattern of technological innovation persistence and tests the potential impact of organizational innovation using firm-level data from three waves of the French Community Innovation Su...
In this paper, we will review the literature on technological innovation persistence and provide a general theoretical framework to analyze the main determinants of this innovative behavior. Moreover, no previous empirical study has taken into account organizational innovation practices as possible determinants of innovation persistence. We will th...
Dans cet article on fournit une analyse des constats empiriques concernant la récente transformation dans les usages du brevet considéré comme un quasi- actif financier. On décrit les causes de ces tendances nouvelles ainsi que les organisations (acteurs et stratégies) qui les portent. On montre qu'il y a un décalage entre les normes de comptabilit...
The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into the determinants of the value of inventions and the role that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical...
Le management des brevets a été depuis longtemps considéré comme une tâche devant être réalisée par des experts. Dans le monde de la recherche académique la plupart des publications sur le sujet étaient concentrées autour d’un petit nombre de revues (Grandstrand, 1999: 89). Une raison à cela : jusqu’à une date assez récente on concevait le dépôt de...
La vision du brevet a beaucoup changé au cours des dernières années. D’un outil juridique de protection de l’innovateur contre l’imitation, il est devenu une ressource stratégique dont les utilisations diffèrent d’un secteur et d’une entreprise à l’autre. Cet ouvrage a pour but de faire le point sur cette nouvelle approche des fonctions du brevet à...
The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between technological diversification and internationalisation of technology for large multinational firms, operating at the world technological frontier. More precisely we address the question as to whether internationalisation determines diversification. The analysis is based on a rich datab...
In the paper we give a systematic view on the main empirical evidences related to the transformation of the use of patent considered as a quasi financial asset. We delineate the roots of this new trend and picture the new organizations (actors and strategies) that pull it. We show the gap between accounting and reporting standards and this trend. F...
In the paper we wish to examine if the firms that innovate know a higher growth than the firm that do not. We use diverse waves of CIS for the French industries over the period 1992-2004 and carry out different models and new econometric methods (quantile regression). Our main findings are that innovative firms produce more growth than non innovati...
Regional creative resources include inventors. Policies conducive to inventors’ productivity or attracting productive inventors promote regional development. We build on prior work on inventor mobility and productivity, analyzing German, French and British patents filed in the US by 7,500 “prolific” inventors (fifteen or more inventions). We measur...
This paper explores the relationship between different Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and innovation. Using a survey carried out on CSR behavior of Luxembourg firms, we found two types of firms as far as CSR practices are concerned. Cluster 1 firms adopted CSR practices to achieve economic goals without resorting to the formalizat...
Recent publications in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) have shown that the previous literature did not grasp how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation...
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The aim of the paper is to highlight geographical localization of French prolific inventors. We construct a US patents data set for French inventors and use it to show that French prolific inventors are very concentrated within France around Paris and the Rhone-Alpes region. Then we study inventor mobility between regions for Rhone-Alpes and Paris...
This article deals with a new approach to industrial policy in France to support the creation of regional research clusters. We address the topic as follows. Section 1 gives some general insights into this policy. Section 2 addresses the structure and the working of one of the Rhone-Alpes regional clusters - the Lyon Urban Trucks and Bus (LUTB) Clu...
A la fonction traditionnelle des brevets de protection des innovations s’ajoute aujourd’hui une dimension stratégique : celle de barrer la route de l’innovation aux concurrents. Nous cherchons à cerner les déterminants de l’utilisation du brevet bloquant, en utilisant la distinction entre stratégies offensives et défensives. Cette recherche, qui co...
The prolific (serial) inventors set up the core of the paper. Prolific inventors tend to have a high productivity in terms of inventions (patents) having in general more economic value. The capacity to produce a lot of inventions (patents) is termed “prolificness”. We want to deepen our knowledge about the size of their population, some of their ma...
Dans ce papier nous utilisons des données d’enquêtes auprès d’entreprises du Luxembourg, l’une sur les pratiques d’innovation (CIS 2006), l’autre sur les comportements de RSE (effectuée en 2008). Nous mettons en évidence l’existence d’une relation forte, statistiquement significative, entre le fait d’être une entreprise innovante et le fait d’adopt...
We provide a framework for understanding the causes and consequences of the observed shapes of the distributions of individual inventors' productivities. We review a literature that begins with Lotka's (1926) "law" regarding the persistence of variability in scientific productivity at any point in time and also over time. We discuss use of the "pow...
In this paper, we study CSR industrial firm behaviour in relation with social dialogue in two countries (France and Luxemburg). We address this topic by asking if two countries having different forms of social dialogue are able to induce even levels of incentives to implement social responsibility. Data collected through two surveys onto industrial...
Dans ce papier, nous mettons en �vidence l?existence d?une relation entre le fait d?�tre une entreprise innovante et d?adopter une d�marche RSE. Trois propositions sont test�es : (1) il y a une liaison directe et positive au niveau des entreprises entre un comportement d?innovation technologique et la mise en oeuvre de pratiques relevant de la RSE,...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming a dominant topic in Business Administration. Our basic assumption in this paper is to look at CSR as a new emerging institution, a new social practice at its first stage of experimentation and diffusion. The aim of the paper is to mobilize three economic approaches of institutions in order to study...
Intellectual property rights and Development.Some preliminary insights on the post-Trips economy
In this paper we analyze the main economic consequences for the developing countries of the existence, the working and the evolution of the patent system in the context of TRIPS. We define the so-called post-TRIPS economy as the new system of internatio...
The objectives of this chapter are to provide the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the concept of persistence
in innovation, to distinguish its roles in each of two distinct analytical frameworks, to describe its current status as a
research area, and finally to identify its principal determinants. First we elaborate our definition...
The Economics of Innovation emerged as an independent field of investigation at the beginning of the last century as has been
described by Antonelli 2003, Dosi 1988, Dosi 2000, Rosenberg 1982, Stonemen 1995, and von Tunzelmann 1995. Then, very quickly, two specializations within, or approaches
to, the subject emerged creating distinct subfields, ea...
In this chapter we report the results of an empirical analysis using a methodology very similar to the one implemented by
(1997). Our aims are simple: 1) to provide the reader with a preliminary understanding of some of the difficulties encountered
in conducting empirical analysis of innovation persistence, and 2) to identify the variables likely t...
There is empirical evidence regarding the role of certain key individuals in the creation of technological knowledge. In particular,
studies of knowledge-based industries have identified the significant roles of key scientists and key engineers in the process
of technological innovation (Zucker and Darby, 1996, 1998, and Almeida and Kogut, 1997). W...
In this chapter we present a first coherent attempt to elaborate an evolutionary theory of persistence in innovation. We constrain
our analytical framework in two ways. First, we do not make any attempt to explain why firms do not innovate. We recognize
that a more comprehensive theory would explain a firm’s decision to innovate on any basis (persi...
Nous partons de l'hypothèse que dans tout processus de diversification technologique la firme à la fois explore et exploite de nouveaux champs de connaissances technologiques, elle est ainsi dans un processus ambidextre. Le but de la recherche est d’examiner si ces deux formes de diversification technologique se retrouvent dans les stratégies d’un...
L’objet du papier est d’analyser les conséquences pour les pays en voie de développement de l’existence, du fonctionnement, et de l’évolution du système de brevet tel qu’il est maintenant structuré par les TRIPS (au sein de l’OMC). Nous définissons et analysons l’économie post-TRIPS, comme nouvelle structuration des relations économiques internatio...
