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In an environment where economic, political and technological change is the rule, a fundamental business strategy should be the defence of traditional markets and thoughtful entry into new markets, with an aim to increase market penetration and stimulate profit. The success of such a strategy...
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Theories of knowledge management in alliances between competitors highlight the role of the alliance as a vehicle in a competition for knowledge. Vertical publicprivate partnerships face a different institutional framework where competition for knowledge gives way to cooperation. This paper...
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This study investigates the links between product innovation and external collaboration and between future product … product introduction than firms without any external collaboration. Further, firms with past abandonment experiences reported … with external collaboration were more likely to introduce new products even if they had previously experienced abandonment …
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From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...
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Entrepreneurial behavior is an important and prevalent behavior among academic scientists - key members of the science and innovation workforce. In this setting, the academic-entrepreneur is one who develops and markets their research production in order to increase personal or institutional...
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biotechnology, nanotechnology, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), when compared to collaboration in mature …Collaboration with university and other public research organisations seems to have become increasingly important for …-technology sectors were found to achieve higher productivity through university-industry collaboration (Motohashi, 2005). Consequently …
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Sir Michael Latham and Sir John Egan in their reports “Constructing the Team”, “Rethinking Construction” and “Accelerating Change” identified substantial changes in the culture and structure of UK construction being required. These also included changes in the relationships between...
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anoverall cross-organisational workflow collaboration (COWCO)supporting framework. …
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grounded theory approach and guided interview techniques, experts in the field of business collaboration were selected using a …
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are performance indicators which may be used to evaluate the degree to which integration attempts lead to the achievement … associated with transit systems planning, project funding and evaluation, operations and performance monitoring. The paper …. It is concluded that there is a need for transit planners and operators to be more rigorous in performance measurement of …
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