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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …
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Virtual Team Collaboration: A Review of Literature and Perspectives
Karoui, Myriam; Gürkan, Ali; Dudezert, Aurélie - HAL - 2010
Along with the widespread use of information technologies (IT) and the increasing geographical span of tasks held by various organizations, Virtual Teams (VTs) rose as an alternative organizational form which has the potential to deeply change the workplace. This article provides a review of...
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Virtual Teams: a Literature Review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
In the competitive market , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to- market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time...
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …
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Organizational paths of commercializing patented inventions: The effects of transaction costs, firm capabilities, and collaborative ties
Jung, Taehyun; Walsh, John P. - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011
This study examines the factors affecting modes of commercializing patented inventions using a novel dataset based on a survey of U.S. inventors. We find that technological uncertainty and possessing complementary assets raise the propensity for internal commercialization. We find that R&D...
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User-producer interaction and the degree of novelty of innovations: a global perspective
Harirchi, Gouya; Chaminade, Cristina - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
User-producer interactions have been traditionally recognized as important for innovation. With the rapid growth of … than a south-north one, at least in terms of collaboration with customers for innovation. …
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The Impact of Innovation Off-shoring on Organizational Adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schubert, Torben - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt its … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for the …
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Proximity, knowledge base and the innovation process The case of Unilever’s Becel diet margarine
Davids, Mila; Frenken, Koen - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015
learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and …
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Combinatorial knowledge bases: integrating cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions in innovation studies and economic geography
Manniche, Jesper; Moodysson, Jerker; Testa, Stefania - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098757
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Why Pre-Commercial Procurement is notInnovation Procurement
Edquist, Charles; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012
innovation and to mitigate grand challenges. One of the main motivations for the support of Pre-Commercial Procurement schemes … was to use public needs as a driver for innovation. This concept was also introduced as a response to the need to … reinforce the innovation capabilities of the EU, while improving the quality and efficiency of public services. However, there …
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