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forces of change, such as innovation, corporate strategies, industrial relocation, and policy. As distinct branches of the … pulp and paper industry passed from the early nascent phase to full maturity, the sources of innovation, nature of …
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The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
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This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is modelled through non homothetic preferences. We show that in such a model, unlike mainstream quality ladders models, the steady state equilibrium is characterised by a duopoly were...
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Das vorliegende Arbeitspapler fasst die Ergebnisse einer im Sommer 1988 durchgeführten schriftlichen Expertenbefragung zu den Bestimmunsfaktoren von Forschung und Entwicklung in der Schweizer Industrie zusammen. Von den 940 beragten Untemehmungen haben 358 Oder ca. 40% geantwortet; sie waren in...
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the USA). Low transaction volume and small retail bank networks facilitated the early adoption of OLRT by savings banks in …
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technological learning and the course of technological innovation. Industry’s recent performance and contemporary global …
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The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of the five elements of TQM practices on employees’ affective commitment within six major Malaysian semiconductor contract manufacturing organizations. Despite extensive research on TQM practices, the issue of linking TQM practices...
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In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework … generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous … on such key issues as the territorial dimension of innovation, e.g., the region, and the apparently important role played …
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strategic innovation, and to encourage consensus over the field’s core foundation of main themes. Methods: We explore the … intersection between the constituent fields of strategic management and innovation management through a concept mapping process. We … categorize the main themes and search for common ground in order to develop the core thematic framework of strategic innovation …
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This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. From the … discussion of different approaches towards the innovation process understanding and modeling two types of approaches to the … evolution of innovation models are developed and discussed. First the so-called innovation management approach which focuses on …
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