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Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of small and medium manufacturing firms over the...
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Knowledge is increasingly perceived as a central factor for company competitiveness. With the transfer of knowledge one of the core functions of knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) companies, the objective of our research incorporates analysis on how the transfer of knowledge takes place...
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Abstract External environment of an organization includes a variety of factors, whose existence, influence its behavior and performance. The action of these factors may be direct (for example, the actions of competitors) or indirect (for example, changes in business climate), and external...
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The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …
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medium Italian enterprises highlights the low use of capital, the local roots, the importance of product innovation, the … aspect stressed in the work is that the processes of innovation and internationalization that underlie the strategies of …
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uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …
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the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …
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the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …
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. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational … Training (IEFP-MQE) is updating information on the articulation between Job creation, innovation, technology, and R&D. A … diagnosis of the state of national S&T research and of processes of technological and organizational innovation was made, as …
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KM upon the innovation and labour productivity within the organization, and how KM affects the firm’s innovative …
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