Business strategies in more- and less-innovative firms in Canada

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More-innovative firms excel in many business areas than less-innovative ones. They engage in research and development activity for product and process innovations, enhance technology and exploit sources of innovation. Innovative firms also place more value on the skills of both managers and workers, while stressing aggressive marketing policies. Finally, innovative firms are more externally oriented in financial liabilities and sources.

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Explaining downstream innovation by commodity suppliers with expected innovation benefit

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Innovation by downstream suppliers is induced by reputations of a higher demand for their products. Suppliers of commodities tend to innovate when the supply industry is concentrated, the prospective innovations will expand the market for the relevant material greatly and the process users are relatively diffused, that is, no one user can reasonably account for a large share of total use of the new process.

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standardization and particularization in services: evidence from Germany

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Research investigating the patterns of activities carried out in the services sector of Germany is presented, with a view to providing a framework for innovation processes in the industry. Particular attention is given to taxonomical accounts of services practices.

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