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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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This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …
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This study suggests that individual time is an important factor that needs to be considered in innovation research. We … output such that after a certain point the innovation-enhancing role of work time is taken over by individual free time …
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suggest a shift towards incremental more than radical innovation. …
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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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In recent decades there has been a sharp increase in Chinas scientific output. Behind its fast growth, little is known about Chinas comparative advantages in different academic disciplines. Meanwhile, despite Chinas rising position now in second place worldwide for research output, its research...
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to many developing countries. This sector, however, has not been considered as a driving force of innovation as compared … countries can play an important role in production and innovation due to their latent advantage in the context-specific or in … agricultural innovation against the backdrop of globalization and rise of biotechnology. We then examine the case of diffusion of …
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This paper, which was prepared for presentation in the program of the 2013 International Energy Workshop Conference held on 1921 June in Paris, France is an extensively revised, expanded and slightly retitled version of UNUMERIT Working Paper 2013009. The latter paper has been cited in other...
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