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Push and pull factors for knowledge exchange
In: Strategic Direction 32 (2016) 4, pp. 33-35
Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places...
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Chinese entrepreneurs focus on innovation
In: Strategic Direction 30 (2014) 1, pp. 7-10
spending into patent applications. Design/methodology/approach – Compares innovation performance between countries with and …, that they will mention creativity and innovation. And yet, China's total number of patent applications rose tenfold between … – Highlights both China's modest relative performance in innovation to date and the speed at which the country's patent …
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Comparing new product development strategies at Bass and Carlsberg‐Tetley
In: Strategic Direction 18 (2002) 4, pp. 6-8
New product development (NPD) remains a vital aspect of marketing for manufacturers of branded goods. Yet it remains an area of great debate and discussion not least about the best strategies and processes for delivering NPD success. Nwabueze and Law consider the NPD strategies of two large...
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Dyson’s heroic struggle
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 9, pp. 8-10
Richard Heckert observed “Innovation to me is inevitably linked to society and to products that are going to make society … between positive brand values and innovation.  …
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Winning innovation
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 9, pp. 30-32
Despite the desperate general state of the UK’s engineering and manufacturing industry, great engineering innovation is … annual prize for engineering innovation.  …
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Innovations: Top ten defense innovations
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 10, pp. 28-30
At the turn of the year, the US R&D Forecast for 2003, a joint effort of Battelle and R&D Magazine , highlighted that outside factors, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, were deeply impacting the levels of funding for scientific research. According to that forecast a...
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Future belongs to the real innovators
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 11, pp. 17-20
The idea that investors are only interested in short‐term results carries more than a grain of truth. It does, however, begin to look a little bit shaky when the fortunes of DuPont are examined. The US chemical company’s shares are underachievers compared to those of 3M. And it is 3M which...
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Innovations: Becoming wise to biotechnology
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 11, pp. 30-32
Biotechnology has been described as a pervasive and disruptive technology. Pervasive in the sheer number of industries it can influence and disruptive in the effect it can have on these. In particular, as well as driving advances in pharmaceutical and healthcare, it has the potential to change...
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Knowledge that matters
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 11, pp. 33-35
enhance business performance – no more so than when effectively applied to the world of product innovation. The potential of …
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GM and the future of new product development
In: Strategic Direction 19 (2003) 1, pp. 17-20
It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who once said that every wall is a door. Unfortunately, this positive outlook on organizational opportunity and creativity is still too rarely adopted. According to Robert I. Sutton, the root of the problem lies in the fact that managers back off when they discover...
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