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innovation within sport clusters. ICB is defined as discretionary and voluntary behaviour of organisations within a cluster that … is not formally rewarded but promotes the functioning of the cluster. The innovation of sport through sport equipment …, hence product innovation, is subject of this research. Sport clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected …
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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 that, in line with the work on project classification, a distinction …
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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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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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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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guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process …
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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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, level of innovation...). In order to analyze the evolution of innovative activities in e-tourism, the initial step will be …. And for successful innovation process, companies need to share, create and combine their internal knowledge as well as … configurations - by supporting horizontal and vertical knowledge exchange could be a fundamental mean for innovation. However, the …
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There is currently an increase in the media attention given to yachting harbour management. Some of these harbours have existed since the 1960s and yet, it is only recently that problems have arisen between public and private partners. This paper presents the case of leisure harbours and designs...
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This paper analyses the impact of internet on the organization of industry and the marketdynamics in the tourism … activities, focusing in the European scene. Tourism incorporates many features ofthe contemporaneous information and … communication economy. Even if e-tourism still stands for a smallshare of the whole tourism activity, the paper establishes that the …
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