Browsing Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change by Author "Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences"
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A Balancing Act: Managing the global-local dimensions of industrial clusters through the mechanism of 'lead' organisations
Giblin, Majella (CISC, 2008-12)The purpose of this paper is to investigate 'leading' organisations in a region to understand how the balance between the global and local dimensions can be managed by clusters. Two cases of industrial clusters are employed ... -
Deciding on open innovation: an exploration of how firms create and capture value with open source software
Morgan, Lorraine (Springer Verlag, 2008-10)Open innovation is a paradigm that proposes that firms can and should use external as well as internal innovations/ideas. A popular example of open innovation has been open source software (OSS). The key issues facing ... -
Inward foreign investment and the clustering process: the case of the medical technology sector in Ireland
Giblin, Majella (CISC, 2008-12)This paper investigates how, if at all, inward foreign investment can instigate a clustering process when such investment is initially attracted to a region as a result of targeted public policy rather than the existence ... -
Tight Clusters or Loose Networks? The Critical Role of Inward FDI in Cluster Creation
Giblin, Majella; Ryan, Paul (CISC, 2010-03)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in instigating a clustering process. In particular, the study examines the situation in which FDI is initially attracted to a ...