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Conceptualizing the Innovation Process – Trends and Outlook

Kotsemir, Maxim; Meissner, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. From the discussion of different approaches towards the innovation process understanding and modeling two types of approaches to the evolution of innovation models are developed and discussed....

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Broadening monitoring and evaluation within reforming national agricultural research systems

Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J.; Amoa-Awua, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

practices (frameworks, methods and tools) that would enable research bodies to manage and demonstrate their performance and … experiences from the first phase of a performance measurement action research project within NARS in Ghana and Uganda 2. To raise … performance as an element of demonstrating developmental impact 3. To explore with key stakeholders opportunities for …

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Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”

Peschl, Markus F.; Fundneider, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an...

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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America

Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America. It compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor...

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The ecological system of innovation: A new architectural framework for a functional evidence-based platform for science and innovation policy

Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...

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Institutionalising Performance Management in R&D Organisations: Key Concepts and Aspects

Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Organisations are under pressure not only to improve their performance but also to be able to demonstrate this improvement. This … the need to develop monitoring and evaluation systems that are capable of ensuring and demonstrating improved performance … December 2002. The project aimed to adapt and test a novel approach to performance management within three agricultural …

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Entrepreneurship - Methodische Herausforderungen einer jungen Forschungsdisziplin

Schuster, Charlotte Leonie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Even if today's successful companies operating in the market were start-ups at some time, so far, no consensus could be found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own theory based on generally accepted assumptions and...

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General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for International Trade

Petsas, Iordanis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

General purpose technologies (GPTs) are drastic innovations, such as electrification, the transistor, and the Internet, that are characterized by the pervasiveness in use, innovational complementarities, and technological dynamism. The model develops a two-country (Home and Foreign) dynamic...

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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...

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Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises through Virtual Team

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for...

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