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Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the European food market and offer potential for product innovations which make them attractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target group research is one key factor for successful innovative food products. The aim of this...
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Am 22./23. Mai 1990 fand in Madrid die erste Europäische Konferenz für Patent und Innovation (Patinnova) statt. Der …
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This paper considers the trade-off between leveraging external sources of innovation by outsourcing design and …-off between the benefits of leveraging external sources of innovation and the opportunities for competence development provided by … in-house design and engineering. We discuss implications for theories of organizational boundary design and innovation …
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During the 1990s mature industries, such as car manufacturing, restructured their production and innovation processes …, changing from vertical integration to high outsourcing. Open innovation is antithetic to vertical integration. Analyzing … whether this restructuring influenced the emergence of open innovation is an important step towards improving our …
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Incorporating managerial flexibility in an innovative R&D project is important, because managers face greater uncertainty in today's competitive and dynamic changing environment. It is essential to bring managerial flexibility into R&D project planning to decrease technical and market risks,...
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This paper aims to develop a methodology to assess the corporate social responsibility performance of European car manufacturers. The research started with a content analysis of sustainability and social responsibility reports published by European automotive businesses in 2010, 2011 and 2012,...
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The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the Plateforme de la Filière Automobile and The British Automotive Council. The two operating structure were established respectively in France and UK to support the national automotive sectors at the dawn of the ongoing crisis. The...
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This paper examines the centralised monitoring of an upstream supply chain (USC) in the context of a mass customisation production system. We propose an adaptation of the material requirement planning framework to manage demand uncertainty at each stage of the USC. New analytical relations that...
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