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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
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Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …
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considered as the basic core of the product development and innovation. Due to structural shortcomings, a great number of …
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This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
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of innovation for a better management of irrigation water. It takes into account all potential forms of technological … innovation for sustainable development. This analysis is supporting a questionnaire on irrigation practices targeting fifty …
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This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the … traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing, and the reality of innovation activities undertaken in a given economy …
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Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of small and medium manufacturing firms over the...
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The design of new tourism products necessarily enters into the realm of uncertainty. Such uncertainty concerns the product developed and its later use as much as the way the design project is conducted. It can be linked to events either within or outside the firm. It will be considered to be...
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generates very poor gross domestic products. To reverse this trend, African countries must build innovation-based economies …
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