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How to organize inter-organizational collaborations within R&D projects to improve their innovative performance? Hasselt University

Wim VANHAVERBEKE
Innovation Management
In recent years, firms have increasingly engaged into collaborations in their research and development activities. While some firms have been extremely successful in their collaboration activities, a considerable number of many other firms reported remarkable difficulties or even experienced striking failures. At the same time, scholars also have been debating whether inter-organizational collaboration improve or hamper firm performance. In most ...

Econometric evaluation of R&D policy instruments in EU member states. KU Leuven

Dirk Czarnitzki
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven
R&D investment in the business sector is subject to market failure. First, companies cannot appropriate all returns from their R&D investments,as knowledge may spill-over to rivals. Second, firms may suffer from financial constraints for their R&D investments, due to asymmetric information between the company and external investors, such as banks. Thus, firms may lack collateral for needed loans for their R&D activity.

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Global cities as Knowledge Hubs: Multinational firms, Connectivity and R&D Locations KU Leuven

Rene Belderbos
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

Multinational firms’ knowledge creating activities have become increasingly global in scope, yet tend to be concentrated in a distinct set of geographic knowledge hubs. The world’s leading internationally connected cities (‘global cities’) act as such knowledge hubs and host a disproportional share of high skilled workers, universities and innovative firms. The aim of this research project is to generate an in-depth understanding of the ...

The R&D Value Chain and Product Commercialization in the Pharmaceutical Industry KU Leuven

Bruno Cassiman
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven

The conversion of promising ideas into commercialized products is a central feature of technological progress and economic growth. However, turning discoveries into marketable products or technologies is a major challenge. The objective of the proposed research project is to analyze how access to different pools of scientific and technological knowledge through different organizational structures during the drug development process, affect ...

R&D towards a High Rate Particle Detector for the CMS Experiment at the LHC Ghent University

Dirk Ryckbosch
Department of Physics and astronomy

In 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worldU+2019s most powerful accelerator became operational, producing mainly proton-proton collisions at multi-TeV center-of-mass energies. This allows experiments, such as the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), to explore the so-far uncharted physics at this energy scale. One of the, in the meantime world-famous results of the first LHC physics run that recently ended, is the discovery a new particle ...

R&D towards a High Rate Particle Detector for the CMS Experiment at the LHC Ghent University

Dirk Ryckbosch
Department of Physics and astronomy

In 2009, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful accelerator became operational,

producing mainly proton-proton collisions at multi-TeV center-of-mass energies. This allows

experiments, such as the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), to explore the so-far uncharted physics at

this energy scale. One of the, in the meantime world-famous results of the first LHC physics run that

recently ...

The impact of appropriability conditions and financial crisis on financing constraints for industrial research and development. KU Leuven

Rene Belderbos
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Leuven
R&D has been recognized as important input factor to industrial production. Potential under-investment may have detrimental effects on competitiveness, on job creation and long-run economic performance. Reasons for under-investment are generally regarded to stem from two sources of market failure that reduce incentives for private investments in R&D. First, private returns to R&D are lower than social returns due to knowledge ...

Measuring total factor productivity and understanding its determinants Ghent University

Gerdie Everaert
Department of Economics, Department of Social economics

Our objective is to measure and explain the country-specific evolution in total factor productivity. A key novelty is that we model worldwide technology to be freely available but allow countries to differ in their absorptive capacity. We will further assess the impact of country-specific R&D efforts and demographic trends (ageing) on the level and evolution of their absorptive capacity.