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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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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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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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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs....
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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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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. The employed web services technology, although very popular … technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a positive …
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, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first … describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently … the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they …
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