paper is to examine to what extent outsourcing relationships can be a source of innovation in industrial services using a …. Our results support the evidence of positive effects of outsourcing service activities on the capacity of innovation. This …

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …

Hungarian suppliers. The paper concludes that diffusion models and the notion of sectoral system of innovation and production … innovation systems still do matter. As for a major element of an NIS, namely government policies, it is more fruitful to create … an attractive, favourable environment for R&D and innovation than focusing on the promotion of industry-specific R&D and …

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innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by … analysing qualitative features of innovation processes (motivations, dynamics, linkages among driving factors and collaboration …. The concluding section highlights implications for innovation surveys’ methods, further quantitative analyses, as well as …

This article analyzes the determinants of the French companies’ innovation activity while highlighting the importance … the product or process innovation is determined by the internal and external attributes of the company (size, demand pull … effect of the partnership and the R&D efforts on innovation, they must be accompanied by certain organizational practices …

extraordinary learning opportunity for the Opificio and this experience deeply marked the subsequent evolution of this organization … innovation and experimentation. What is striking about the Opificio is such a contradiction between its excellence in core …

Innovation in the services sectors has been a rather neglected research area under the commonly held view that … manufacturing firms are the main drivers of innovation in developed economies. The rise of the service economy has redirected the … research agenda towards the potential of services firms to adopt innovation activity. Here we analyze the determinants of …