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Visual Media : TV Segment Attracting Newcomers from Related Sectors

Heng, Stefan - 2015

Digital technology and convergence are changing the media market. On the one hand, potential opportunities are opening up for both long-standing players and the associated retailers as well as for the skilled technicians, who are positioning themselves in the market with ancillary services. On...

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The Identification of Weak Signals and Wild Cards in Foresight Methodology : Stages and Methods

Ponomareva, Julia - 2015

This research explores the key stages and methods for the identification of weak signals (WS) and wild cards (WC) in foresight methodology. Theoretical approaches and practical projects in this field were studied, key characteristics and features of these concepts were identified. A review of...

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Innovation, Investor Sentiment, and Firm-Level Experimentation

Aramonte, Sirio - 2015

Due to frictions like informational externalities, firms invest too little in learning the productivity of newly available technologies through small-scale experimentation. I study the effect of investor sentiment on the relation between technological innovation and future firm-level R&D...

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Measuring Innovation - A Discussion of Innovation Indicators at the National Level

Meissner, Dirk - 2015

various indexes. The analysis comes to the conclusion that the relevant dimensions of a higher education, research, and … lacking data but also because not all areas in higher education, research, and innovation are measurable. Trying to express … importance in higher education, research and innovation. Despite these limitations – and even if indicators at best can only …

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Innovativeness, Operations Priorities and Corporate Performance : An Analysis Based on a Taxonomy of Innovativeness

Kilic, Kemal - 2015

The paper analyzes the relations among the manufacturing firm's innovativeness, operations priorities, and corporate performance. As opposed to common practice in the literature in which these relations are analyzed on a dichotomous (High vs. Low) classification of innovativeness mostly times...

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Innovation and Growth : How Business Contributes to Society

Ahlstrom, David - 2015

Milton Friedman once argued that profits are the chief purpose of business. Profits do matter, but today we know more about how business contributes to society. Good firms bring innovation to the marketplace, which facilitates their growth. Innovative, growing firms generate economic growth and...

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Exposed : Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation

Cox Pahnke, Emily - 2015

This study investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational relationships. In...

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Corporate Governance in a Networked Age

Vermeulen, Erik P. M. - 2015

In a networked and digital age, we need to rethink the structure of the modern corporation. In order to survive and grow, corporations must operate with a new set of assumptions and principles in order to remain relevant, competitive, and successful. Consider the growing number of technology...

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Technological Paradigms and Trajectories as Determinants of the R&D Corporate Change in Drug Discovery Industry

Coccia, Mario - 2015

The present inductive study shows two main effects of new technological paradigms in medicine driven by convergent genomics, genetics and proteomics (e.g., targeted therapies): 1) division of scientific/technological labour by strategic alliances among firms to reinforce the integrative...

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Business Incubators in China : An Inquiry into the Variables Associated with Incubatee Success

Zhang, Haiyang - 2011

This paper examines the association between the outcome of business incubation and the resources used by incubators, by using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms graduating from an STBI is closely correlated with...

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