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Virtuality, Innovation and R&D Activities
Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2014
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities....
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Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams
Shafia, Mohammad Ali; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin - 2013
Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment it is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It is widely accepted that innovation can be better achieved by...
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New Product Development in Virtual Environment
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014
activities in NPD. The results highlight several avenues which would help managers and policy makers to better foster cyber new …
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The impact of the standardization of the NPD process on its efficiency
Karničar Šenk, Mateja; Roblek, Matjaž - In: Journal of business economics and management 20 (2019) 1, pp. 149-167
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the standardization of the new product development (NPD) process … on its efficiency. A dilemma exists with regard to determining to what extent NPD processes should be standardized, in … order to not hinder the operators during the performance of NPD process and consequently, weaken it. The case analysis for …
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Virtual R&D Teams : Innovation and Technology Facilitator
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014
Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187137
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Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2013
The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....
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Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
McElheran, Kristina - 2015
Are market leaders more likely to be early adopters of business process innovations? Although they tend to enjoy economies of scale in adoption, leaders may find that adjustment costs also increase with scale. Prior work has focused on how misalignment of incumbents' internal capabilities may...
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Virtual R&D Teams : A New Model for Product Development
Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2015
research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD …). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of virtual teams for NPD are still not adequately verified. This paper presents …. Therefore, NPD managers in virtual R&D teams should concentrate on the process of new product development rather than simply …
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Virtual Teams for NPD – An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014
&D teams in new product development (NPD) processes in an innovative, effective and efficient is of a high importance, but the …
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Opening Up for Competitive Advantage – How Deutsche Telekom Creates an Open Innovation Ecosystem
Rohrbeck, René; Hölzle, Katharina; Gemünden, Hans Georg - 2014
When, on 21st September 2006, 'The Economist' compared incumbent telecommunication operators with dinosaurs that could soon face extinction, most readers were ready to agree. The mixture of declining revenues and fierce competition was believed to shake the market and soon to dethrone former...
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