confirm that designer consultants can make a substantial contribution in enhancing firms’ innovation capabilities. We show … forward by firms to manage this relationship in order to gain a competitive advantage driven by innovation. Implications …

-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …

in those sectors innovation may often not be the best strategic choice for market entry. In high-tech industries the … boundaries between the innovation and imitation are often blurred. Hence, following the pioneer does not eliminate risk of market …

in the export platforms of Asia. However, the influence of outsourcing on innovation capabilities is less clear. Recent … literature shows that innovation capabilities have emerged in the software cluster of Bangalore in India. This report asks … influence on the ‘space’ for innovation that accrues to suppliers in the software industry in India. On the supply side, the …

account some potential forms of technological innovation for sustainable development. For this purpose, this paper tries to …

the research cycle, a movement which may actually discourage future research innovation. This document addresses some of …

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … great number of which is market by a weak potential of adaptability, innovation and sustainability. It becomes urgent to …

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 …