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understood by explicitly separating innovation into the component processes of invention and commercialization. This allows us to …
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, this potential has been consistently wasted. The fact is that despite an almost unparalleled track record on invention, the … transfer from invention to innovation has often not been achieved by UK businesses with the result that the economy has failed …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine which value capture strategies are efficient in the invention stage … industry. Findings – The results suggest that informal strategy (secrecy, lead-time) is efficient in the invention stage … investment in complementary assets may reduce R & D productivity at the invention stage, it may increase the productivity at the …
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Marketing executives face numerous hurdles in introducing new products into foreign markets. This article examines the difficulties multinational firms face in patenting new products in the EEC, the difficulties they face in protecting those patents, and the steps the EEC has taken to facilitate...
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Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the practical benefits accruing to companies when patents are obtained are discussed, and the necessity for companies to...
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City planning, decision-making and participation in local administration can be sometimes elitist, closed to the public and non-participatory processes. Citizens are frequently a neglected part of these activities and are usually only involved and considered prior to elections. Yet citizens have...
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The article presents the ISO/IEC 29110 Profile Implementation Methodology that was developed to manage consistent implementation of individual ISO/IEC 29110 Profiles in the open-source content management tool Eclipse Process Framework Composer. Such an implementation enables effective managing...
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the changing role and image of libraries and librarians, along with the overall information culture prevalent in four Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that were undergoing socio‐political changes. The core question investigated...
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Purpose – Publishers of some scientific journals and the ISO standard require or recommend specific information to be present in abstracts. However, little is known whether this is what scientists give when they write abstracts. The aim of this paper is to test the structure of abstracts in...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how relatively little is known about the consumer perceptions of own brands in the newly emerging markets of central and eastern Europe. The paper attempts to fill a gap in knowledge by investigating various aspects of consumer perceptions of...
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