This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the … prior research, b) provide researchers with a structural framework on which future research on the organization of …

Innovation activities in high tech industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation management … these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design … with different aspects of acquisition behaviour. Particular focus is put on innovation-related firm characteristics. The …

Unterstützungsbedarfen entsprechen. Mit einer dritten Teilstudie wird die Rolle von Sportvereinen bei der lokalen Integration von Migrant … debates, in order to analyse these in relation to existing needs for action, spatial context conditions and various innovation … for support. A third study examines the roles of sports clubs in the local integration of migrants, refugees and internal …

policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While … there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product …

design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy. …The academic firm is a type of firm (firm-based organization or institution) that is being driven by focusing on … application (innovation). The academic firm interprets and qualifies a disciplinary (interdisciplinary) variety of the background …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design …

Innovation-as-usual employs synthetic input as the key source of inspiration to bring about innovations, whereas … unusual innovation is inspired by designs in nature. The use of nature as a key stimulus for innovation represents a …

sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …