, capable of converting technological innovation assets into substantial levels of industrial productivity, wealth and global … and aLign these industrial clusters to their empowerment external drivers (academia, banking, complementary industries and … integrate the well performing clusters into world class value systems. To achieve these performances, a knowledge system …

development by investigating how firms in competitive industry clusters use transportation networks and what role those networks … play in the competitiveness of these clusters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach combines quantitative and … qualitative techniques to geographically identify competitive industry clusters and to investigate the role of transportation. The …

innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge … process organizations (KPOs) serves to reduce innovation process obstacles. Grounded in diffusion theory and strategic … and scope, knowledge sharing, and learning. This paper claims that (a) accumulated core competencies of multinational …

boundaries and as a consequence managing operations contains more and more issues and actions dealing with external networks …

using policy networks for implementing energy-efficiency measures in private industrial companies. Design … networks develop. The study finds that the network has too broad a problem definition, which does not help unify the involved …

TRIZ as project management requirement. The findings showed that common approach is important to synergies innovation …

product development - collaboration, innovation, and internationalisation - are the core tenets of the accompanying … dissertation then seeks to answer why firms engage in international collaborative innovation. The cycle of technological innovation … Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) to validate issues of sustainability before examining the impact of location on innovation and …