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Research points to a productivity gap between the UK and some of its majorcompetitors such as France, Germany and the US. To close this gap, it is widelyaccepted that the UK must move towards competing on value and innovation ratherthan on low costs. So how can the UK boost innovation? How can...
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, innovating and creating ever more sophisticated products and services, so they do not have to compete on the basis of cost. While …
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This report examines innovation in experiential services. These are serviceswhere the focus is on the experience of the … services delivered. The report is based on a continuing research programmeon experiential services at London Business School … experiential services facilitates wider reflection on thesubject of service innovation.[...] …
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delivery; identifying the incentives that matter for people workingin public services; managing the potentially conflicting …, especially for implementing innovations to improve the public services.The AIM Fellows’ work is timely not only because the …
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production overseas- either its own specialised unit or outsourced services.Business Services are services that are provided to … other business, rather than directly to the public. Theyinclude Computer Services, Professional Services (Legal, Accountancy …
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Business schools face significant challenges in terms of faculty recruitment, retention and development, with datasuggesting that there are worrying shortfalls in terms of numbers of PhD students graduating and taking up facultypositions in UK business schools (Francis, 2005). Add to this...
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It is all very well exhorting UK business to be more innovative, more competitive andto close the productivity gap with economic rivals such as the US. The problem is,approximately 40 per cent of companies in the private sector are owned by non-UKbased companies. In these cases the parent...
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Regional agglomerations or clusters of specialised firms and other organisations, in particular industries, have beenaround for centuries and have been a subject of research for decades (for an overview see Porter 1998a: 206-208;Enright 1998, 2003). Obviously, this is true for traditional...
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Government policy emphasises five ‘drivers’ of productivity: competition, enterprise, innovation, investment and skillsand each of these has been the subject of major programmes of reform (HM Treasury, 2006). Despite this, andnotwithstanding some improvement, UK productivity in terms of output...
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While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice, process or structure that significantly alters the way...
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