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Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …
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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 …
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
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We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
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This paper relates to the development and the experimentation of an IT process assessment methodology especially designed to be used in very small enterprises (VSEs). This methodology, called NOEMI , has been developed as a critical part of a public research project of the Centre de Recherche...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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initiate innovation. This paper examines the geographical pattern of technology transfers in the form of buyer … training for product/process innovation in order to investigate the geographical structure of knowledge acquisition … training to their main suppliers. (v) In the case of non-local firms, product innovation with production partners is more …
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represent an effective innovation work in the period of economic crisis. We know that innovation is the main engine of growth in … the current context, and innovation at work not only ensures the survival of firms, but thus maximizing their internal …
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capital is a major factor in creating the research and innovation infrastructure of a mature economy. Looking at the research … the soft skills of engineering students, and adopting an innovation perspective in the development of a nation. …
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being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational …, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three di erent types of education for employees with at least 16 years of … innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of …
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