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findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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Following the increasing competitive pressure and the emergence of new industrial poles within the auto industry, Italian firms have been the protagonists of an intense reorganisation, which is still ongoing. This case-study involves 13 supplier firms, operating in the automotive industry,...
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Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …
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ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...
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The idea for the present article came from a Thematic Categorical Analysis made to a set of nine interviews to Portuguese enterprises occurred between July and November 2007. The semi-directive interviews that where submitted to a content analysis aim to focus upon an eventual relationship...
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Machinery and equipment (M&E) is one of the imperative factors that influence Canada’s living standards. M&E investment and development is vital for long-term productivity growth. Despite Canada’s resilience to the global financial crisis, it is still vulnerable to weak future growth due to...
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Growth in popularity of computer (video) games is a noticeable change in recent years. Electronic entertainment increasingly engages the wider society and reaches to new audiences by offering them satisfy of wide variety of needs and aspirations. As a mass media games not only provide...
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This paper discusses the impact of electronic commerce on the private sector of developing countries and outlines the potential role of the Inter American Development Bank in promoting the use of ICT by small and medium businesses. Information Technology is also reshaping other sectors that are...
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This research paper is focused on the role of ICT and e-learning education/literacy as a key component on the Education … System of the transition countries. It investigates the importance of ICT and e-learning literacy and their impact on …: curriculum development and implementation, Student/Learner-centered teaching/learning, Competency-based approaches, Integrated …
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The Hands-On ICT project aims at facilitating the integration of ICT tools in teaching through an open and learning … creative learning activities, we were evaluating certain characteristics of the courses, importance of communication …
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