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R&D Network and value Creation in SMEs
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of … and to SME's is the development of collaborative environments and networks to increase their innovation capabilities as a …
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Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Abdul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies: Knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers’ networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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Business Contingency, Strategy Formation, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Chinese Apparel SMEs
Chi, Ting - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 27-45
This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...
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SMALLER MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT:A Longitudinal Exploration
Tesar, George; Moini, Hamid; Kuada, John; Sørensen, … - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This book provides an overview of approaches to internationalization as experienced by smaller manufacturing enterprises over a relatively long period of time — the 35-year period from 1974 to 2009. The original research on which this study is based dates back to the mid-1970s, when...
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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
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Consideration Regarding the Approach of Sme’s Development Modalities, in Context of Knowledge-Based Economy, from the Perspective of Firm Theories
Manoela, Popescu; Luminita, Crenicean Cecilia - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 485-489
should be focused on innovation, creativity, competitiveness, entrepreneurial culture, accumulation and use of knowledge …
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KNWOLEDGE RELATED ACTIVITIES IN ROMANIAN SMES
Nicolescu, Ovidiu; Ceptureanu, Sebastian; Ceptureanu, Eduard - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2009) 11, pp. 41-41
Knowledge is seen in our day as the main driving force behind productivity,performance and economic growth, shifting the focus to information, technology andlearning and their role in economic performance. The growing codification of knowledgeand its transmission through communications and...
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Cooperation in Innovation Networks: The Case of Danish and German SMEs
Gretzinger, Susanne; Hinz, Holger; Matiaske, Wenzel - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 21 (2010) 2, pp. 193-216
Information is a critical resource in innovation processes. External information can be helpful in innovation processes … to complete them successfully. SMEs in particular are therefore advised to draw on consulting in innovation processes, as … view, the involvement of intermediaries in the innovation process is accompanied by the risk of losing specific knowledge …
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