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The excessive concentration of the innovation literature on product development, its drivers and effects, has almost … neglected an important strategy which develops and sustains a firm's competitive advantage: process development or innovation …. This is an examination of process innovation as more than a mere dependent variable for predicting innovators. It provides …
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Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
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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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been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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both domestic and foreign sources in the innovation process in view of the contention that "international technology …
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Technology transfer in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects of the Kyoto Protocol has become one of the important issues addressed both in policy agenda and by academic scholars. In many CDM project host countries, technology transfer is among the key provisions of sustainable development...
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, technological capabilities and systems of innovation. …
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competence building and innovation. Our analysis is based on a simple standard economics model for the sake of clarity in … understanding the link between the need for collaboration and competition in the innovation process at the national level. We find …
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effects of human capital coupled with weak or virtually inexistent systems of innovation are at the root of the observed …
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