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Advances and challenges in innovation studies
Castellacci, Fulvio; Grodal, Stine; Mendonca, Sandro; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764696
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Critical factors for new product developments in SMEs virtual team
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740589
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Virtual Teams for New Product Development – An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742983
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742995
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Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises through Virtual Team
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008743010
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The effectiveness of virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: experiences of Malaysian SMEs
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Rashid, Abdul; Hanim, Salwa; Ahmed, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149413
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The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Abdul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765905
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Adaptive agents in the House of Quality
Fent, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
Managing the information flow within a big organization is a challenging task. Moreover, in a distributed decision-making process conflicting objectives occur. In this paper, artificial adaptive agents are used to analyze this problem. The decision makers are implemented as Classifier Systems,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623274
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Entanglement by Genes or Shares; Hamilton´s rule of kin selection revisited
Friedrich, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Help within genetically related and unrelated organisms as well as investments of investors holding shares to different degree including charity can be understood within the ensemble concept. In an ensemble transfer of substrate from a source to a sink may result in superadditivity as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107714
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Conceptualizing the Innovation Process – Trends and Outlook
Kotsemir, Maxim; Meissner, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. From the … discussion of different approaches towards the innovation process understanding and modeling two types of approaches to the … evolution of innovation models are developed and discussed. First the so-called innovation management approach which focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258734