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innovation framework. …
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2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
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innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …
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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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conditions the emergent systems of innovation in Africa. These effectively determine the development trajectory of the region. We … advance the notion of dynamic and non-dynamic systems of innovation, the latter describing the African condition. In doing … literature on evolutionary theory and systems of innovation. We provide evidence of the colonial origins of skewed schooling …
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Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...
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This paper assesses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their impact on the economic performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of the paper suggest that the diffusion of ICT among...
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Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are …
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