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Value indicators and monitoring in innovative PDM: A grounded approach

Hooge, Sophie; Hatchuel, Armand - HAL - 2008

Long-term success of firms depends on the efficiency of their management of R&D projects. However, there is a gap between standard economic and strategic indicators and the high uncertainty, complexity of commitments, and organizational issues that can be observed in the more innovative R&D...

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NPD Projects in Search of Top Management Support : The Role of Team Leader Social Capital

Chollet, Barthelemy; Brion, Sébastien; Chauvet, Vincent; … - HAL - 2012

A number of studies have found that the performance of NPD projects greatly depends on the support they get from top management. However, research into why some projects get more support than others has been limited. The present paper takes a political approach to NPD, in which top management...

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Virtual Teams for New Product Development: An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers

Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009

New interaction tools such as internet allow companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently, engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition...

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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review

Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2010

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...

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Exploration and Project Management

Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008

Project management in academic studies tends to be regarded as an adequate solution to the problems raised by innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue...

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Creating Products in the Absence of Markets: A Robust Design Approach

Midler, Christophe; Silberzahn, Philippe - HAL - 2008

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine how firms deal with a situation of true uncertainty about their potential markets and technologies. Specifically, we ask how firms can create products when the corresponding market does not exist. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is...

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The world upside down

Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The first part of the paper is focused on the emergence...

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I.C.T. and Environment : Bad Assumptions and Recent Hypotheses

Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2011

The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information Communication Technology. In the first part, we will present, through a review of the literature, the rather negative role played by ICT on the environment: paper, transportation,...

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“Wir, die wir einen Floh beschlagen haben”. Produktivität und Profit in einem Moskauer Joint Venture

Müller, Birgit; Mechtcherkina, Elena; Levinson, Kirill; … - HAL - 1996

Während sich Moskau im Herbst 1993 unter und Ober der Erde in einen Straßenmarkt verwandelt hatte, waren die Strategien und Perspektiven der russischen Betriebe von der Zerschlagung von Staatsmonopolen, Privatisierungen und Joint Ventures geprägt. Mit welchen Vorstellungen die Beschäftigten...

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Value of invention, prolific inventor productivity and mobility: evidence from five countries, 1975-2002

Latham, William; Bas, Christian Le; Volodin, Dmitry - HAL - 2011

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

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