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The Organization of New Service Development in the USA and UK

Tidd, Joe; Hull, Frank - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

We understand a great deal about the organization and management of new product development in the manufacturing sector, but we know relatively little about how applicable this research and practice is to the service sector. In this paper we introduce and test a framework for managing new...

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Problem solving and the co-ordination of innovative activities

Brusoni, Stefano; Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

In the context of increasingly globalized markets, ever more complex supply chains and international manufacturing networks, corporate decision-making processes involve more and more actors, variables and criteria. This is a challenge for corporate head quarters. Many have argued that the role...

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The Knowledge Bases of the World's Largest Pharmaceuticals Groups: what do Patent Citations to Non-Patent Literature Reveal?

Brusoni, Stefano; Criscuolo, Paola; Geuna, Aldo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

This paper examines the knowledge bases of the world's largest pharmaceuticals groups by sales. It puts forward the concepts of knowledge breadth and depth as the relevant dimensions along which knowledge bases can be mapped. Breadth is studied by analysing the evolution of specialisation by...

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Can the Large Penrosian Firm cope with the Dynamics of Technology?

Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001

technical performance with potentially disruptive effects on corporate organisation. …

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The ICT Component of Technological Diversification: Is there an underestimation of ICT capabilities among the world's largest companies?

Mendonça, Sandro - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological diversification trend among the world's large industrial firms. The objective of the research is twofold. First, to emphasise the emerging differences among technologies when...

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Organizing for Service Innovation: Best-Practice or Configurations?

Tidd, Joe; Hull, Frank - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

-practice framework is found to be predictive of performance improvement in samples in both the UK and USA, but the model better fits the …, processes, tools and systems which offer different performance advantages. The results provide an opportunity for updating the …

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Design Performance Measurement in the Construction Sector: A Pilot Study

Torbett, Richard; Salter, Ammon J; Gann, David M; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001

This paper examines the role and deployment of design performance measurements (DPMs) in the construction industry … very little research on the use of DPMs in construction, and firms often struggle to find appropriate performance …. Other measures are needed to address quality, innovative performance and client satisfaction. In contrast to manufacturing …

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Knowledge about knowledge since Nelson & Winter: a mixed record

Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in 1982, has been mixed. It has been greatest when their concepts have been enriched by empirical evidence, often coming from outside evolutionary economics. It has been least when...

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Constructing Success in the Electric Power Industry: Flexibility and the Gas Turbine

Watson, Jim - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001

This paper explains the success and failure of two technologies that generate electricity from fossil fuels. Both the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) and fluidised bed boiler burn fossil fuels more cleanly than more traditional technologies. Whereas the CCGT has been used for an increasing...

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Prospects for Internet Telephony: Toy for Multimedia Hobbyists or Next-Generation Technology?

Corrocher, Nicoletta - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999

The sustained rate of technological change in the telecommunications industry has opened up significant windows of opportunities for telecommunications networks operators to develop value-added services and multimedia applications. The growth of the Internet raises the issue of a possible...

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