What does it take to implement open innovation? Towards an integrated capability framework

What Does It Take

This study explores the extent to which campaign visibility facilitates electoral participation, using data from firstand second-order elections in Britain. Our contribution to the existing literature is threefold. First, we assess whether the effects of campaign effort are conditioned by marginality, finding that campaign mobilisation gets out the vote regardless of the competitiveness of the ...

What does it take to win?

What Does It Take to Mitigate Corruption ?

There has been growing evidence that substantive public resources are lost to corruption in developing countries. This paper investigates pre-existing local conditions associated with the size of public money lost between the government’s disbursement and receipt by beneficiaries, using Indonesia’s poverty alleviation program, IDT. The results show that overall corruption was higher in district...

Plant Evolution: What Does It Take To Be an Egg?

The genetic regulation of cell patterning within plant gametophytes remains poorly understood. Now, two new studies in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha shed light on the conserved function of an RKD transcription factor as a key regulator of egg cell fate in the land plant lineage.

How many patents does it take to signal innovation quality?

In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting observed during the last few years. When PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices) award bad patents, not only do “false innovators” have the incentive to file applications but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively in an attempt to signal their type. However, if they are liquidity con...