Michalis Papazoglou

Oxford Brookes University · Business School

This study considers the act of entering into new technological domains for R&D purposes as one of the most intense entrepreneurial activities within large established firms, referring to it as R&D entrepreneurship. Attempting to detect factors that could strengthen (or weaken) the impact of R&D entrepreneurship on innovation performance, I examine...

The timely disengagement of a firm from its old technological achievements and the update of its core technological competencies are important issues for both management scholars and practitioners. However, a firm is naturally reluctant to abandon or replace technologies created internally and on which a large amount of resources has been spent and...

This study proposes a new theoretical approach to conceptualizing the knowledge environment as a mosaic of knowledge components stemming from organizational knowledge actions. The pieces of this imaginary mosaic are the novel knowledge components incorporated in organizational knowledge actions and their sizes are determined by the extent of their...

There is a general consensus among scholars that knowledge is probably the most important source of competitive advantage. The influential, novel knowledge incorporated in patented inventions can be considered as a valuable resource for firms. The research questions that are at the heart of this work are how long the effect of influential knowledge...

Knowledge-based competition has been a research area of considerable interest to strategic management scholars and managers, all being of the opinion that knowledge is the most important source of competitive advantage. In particular, the knowledge embedded in a firm's technological inventions, and especially within influential patented inventions...

The diffusion of innovations is identified as an important aspect of technological and social change. Innovations diffuse through segmented networks of knowledge that limit the flow of knowledge from any one technological domain to any other. Despite this segmentation, some organizations are capable of developing pieces of knowledge that overcome t...

Τhe main objective of this study is to provide insight into the firm level factors that may affect a firm’s ability to influence technological evolution and to create broadly useful technological inventions. In addition, in the context of this thesis, we will examine if these two specific abilities can have an impact on the firm’s financial perform...

Η παρούσα έκθεση στοχεύει στην εξέταση των δεδομένων που προέρχονται από τα ερωτηματολόγια που συλλέχθηκαν από συμμετέχοντες σε δράσεις ΕΤΑΚ της ΓΓΕΤ, αναλυόμενα α) ανά δράση ΕΤΑΚ (Corallia, Κοινοπραξίες, ΠΑΒΕΤ, ΠΡΑΞΕ) β) ανά τύπο συμμετέχοντα οργανισμού (ερευνητικός φορέας ή ιδιωτική επιχείρηση) γ) ανά μέγεθος ιδιωτικής επιχείρησης (μικρή, μεσαία,...

Λαµβάνοντας υπόψη τις σύγχρονες τάσεις της παγκοσµιοποιηµένης οικονοµίας και της τεχνολογικής προόδου, αλλά και αφουγκραζόµενοι τις ραγδαίες αλλαγές, τόσο σε εθνικό, όσο και σε διεθνές οικονοµικό επίπεδο, το κεφάλαιο αυτό κάνει µια εκτενή ανάλυση και εξηγεί τόσο µε θεωρητικά, όσο και µε στατιστικά στοιχεία την έννοια και τη σηµαντικότητα της καινοτ...

This work provides a description of data and processes used to produce a database that delineates geo-environmental related features covering the geographical context of the island of Crete in South Aegean. Since 1996, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.) and more recently...