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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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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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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. The employed web services technology, although very popular … technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a positive …
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, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data … and industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work links to innovation, and we discuss factors that help …
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Increased global competitions have urged small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop new products faster. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of...
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illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process. Management of virtual R …
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This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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Innovation is an increasingly relevant concept for the success of any organization, but it also represents a set of … internal and external considerations, barriers and challenges to overcome. Along the concept of innovation, new paradigms … emerge such as open innovation and co-creation that are simultaneously innovation modifiers and intensifiers in organizations …
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