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models is becoming crucial to increase resource productivity and achieve competitive advantages. Notwithstanding eco-innovation … consensus exists on the boundaries and interlinkages among the concepts of Eco-Innovation, Circular Economy and Circular … analysed firms in Emilia Romagna, in terms of cleaner production strategies. By contrast, any business innovation linked to the …
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improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …
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User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the … field of lead users and user innovation, scientific literature provides only a few insights into how barriers are … research into the effects of user innovation barriers on user-generated products, and how user innovators' personal …
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In recent years a phenomenon called "frugal innovation" has increasingly gained traction in the scholarly discourse … what is it that makes India a forerunner for an innovation paradigm with increasing global relevance? In this paper, I … participation of Indian students that underscore the role of culture as a key determinant for the acceptance of frugal innovation …
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The phenomenon of frugal innovation, as characterized by "affordable excellence", is experiencing increasing acceptance … businesses and fail to comprehend the importance of frugal innovation. They would be well advised to retain their focus on … innovation approaches. Instead of focusing on delivering "more for more for few" they should rather continue to focus on …
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cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and … growth. -- Technological Lead ; Innovation ; R&D …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to … be due to endogenous selection. -- Career Concerns ; Innovation ; Institutional Ownership ; Productivity and R&D …
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The success of NPD projects of high-cost, engineering-intensive, and customized development products is largely dependent on information sharing with actors from customers regarding their specific requirements (Von Hippel, 1986). But information sharing is also necessary among actors from...
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Which types of networks favor the diffusion of innovations in the sense that an innovation whose intrinsic benefits are … very large payoff benefits in favor of the innovation. -- Diffiusion of innovations ; Small World Networks ; Contagion …
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User innovation contributes significantly to societal advancement, particularly in developing novel products and … contributions to the common good. This paper investigates end-users' perceptions of user innovation, a critical yet underexplored … through semi-structured interviews (n=5) and quantitative research using a 2x3 (User Innovation vs. Producer Innovation …
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