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Product flows in today’s supply chains do not end once they have reached the customer. Many products lead a second and even third or fourth life after having accomplished their original task at their first customer. Consequently, a product may generate revenues multiple times, rather than a...
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Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the … most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed … management of the innovation process and the organisation of system innovation. Research findings show how companies can improve …
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The number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and...
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Competition is the engine behind innovation and dynamics in the marketplace. Sectors like public transport …
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entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …
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This paper examines the transfer of designs between projects within firm in the context of made-to-order producing companies. This practice is also known as knowledge reuse. Past studies has provided a detailed account of the strategies and processes involved in the reuse of technologies....
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Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based … current managerial challenges. In this paper we research innovation in twenty project based firms. We identify three key areas … of innovation from the theoretical literature and conduct empirical research, discovering (1) whether project based firms …
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This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register … population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …
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This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation … enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003 …. It was found that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process …
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This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...
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