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Adoption of Product and Process Innovations in Differentiated

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

products. Firms' weakly favour a process innovation if the degree of product differentiation (competition) is high (low). In … product innovation are found to be the critical assumptions in the sense of Milgrom and Roberts (1994). …

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Product and Process Innovations in a Horizontally Differentiated Product Market

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

firm’s decision between a product and process innovation. When firms have to choose between the two types of innovation, it … is demonstrated that both firms undertake the product innovation when the competi-tion is intense. For intermediate … depending on the innovation cost structure. Again, the firms are willing to incur higher costs into product innovations, when …

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Delayed Product Introduction

Hui, Kai-Lung; Wang, Qiu-Hong - EconWPA - 2005

We investigate the incentives of a monopolistic seller to delay the introduction of a new and improved version of his product. By analyzing a three-period model, we show that the seller may prefer to delay introducing a new product, even though the enabling technologies for the product are...

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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE HIGHER EDUCATION

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Gomes, Jorge; Mendes, Maria - EconWPA - 2002

This chapter uses key concepts in the knowledge management literature to analyse the procedures and practices used by a project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project completion. This project allowed a long...

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accelereting new product development by overcoming complexity constraints

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2003

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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

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Measuring Variability Factors in Consumer Values for Profit Optimization in a Firm – A Framework for Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

Consumer value may be defined as a tool to measure the prolonged satisfaction and an on-going propensity to buy the product and services. Though there are many issues floating in an on-going debate about the consumer value, it may be argued that the consumer value in terms of the level of...

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Consumer Perspectives of Brand Extension Effects : Information Analysis Determining the Consumer Behaviour Patterns

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

Brands are successful because people prefer them to ordinary products. In addition to the psychological factors already mentioned, brands give consumers the means whereby they can make choices and judgments. The secret to successful branding is to influence the decisions the way in which...

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Buying Organic Food in France : Shopping Habits and Trust

Sirieix, Lucie; Schaer, Brigitte - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we attempt to compare the responses of consumers and professionals to questions related to organic food retailing, in order to highlight the differences and the similarities of viewpoints between them and to understand the links between consumer perception of organic food and the...

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The Estonian ICT Manufacturing and Software Industry: Current State and Future Outlook

Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004

with a closer look at the challenges for the Estonian ICT sector innovation system. …

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