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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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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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and industrial structure, the paper applies a framework for innovation system dynamics that investigates in detail the … introduction of scope clauses that created a niche for the 50-seat market. Bombardiers radical innovation, the business-jet based …
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an innovation survey conducted in the Netherlands have been used to evaluate the effect on firm growth in the five years …
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This paper focuses on how to improve process innovation in service sectors. To do so, we analyse how the interplay of … the firms internal resources impact process innovation at the firm level. Survey data from 166 Information Technology … mediates the impact of the intensity of end-user collaboration and breadth of external collaboration on process innovation …
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This study investigates the impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing … industries in seven EU regions. Recent literature identifying sources of potential government failure in innovation policy … suggests that the effects of public support measures to increase private innovation may be disappointing. Our results are …
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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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Using innovation survey data on a sample of UK manufacturing firms, Laursen and Salter 2006 documented a non … for radical innovation in our sample. Based on multiple research streams including economics of innovation and development … developing context, a wider range of innovation obstacles implies broader external search and more intense obstacles require …
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