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Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises Through Virtual Team
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2013
New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for...
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Italy must foster high growth industries
Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander; Kriwoluzky, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 7/9, pp. 65-74
an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should …
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"Pact for innovation" to promote the EU’s major aim of convergence
Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 146-147
Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps … member states and increase economic disparities • Pact for Innovation: structural funds with a strong focus on innovation …
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The Greek private sector remains full of untapped potential
Kritikos, Alexander; Handrich, Lars; Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 29, pp. 263-272
Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as—with the...
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The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence : evidence from manufacturing SMEs in Viet Nam
Nguyen, Huu Thanh Tam; Minh, Nguyen-Khac; Quoc, Tran-Nam - 2017
. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …
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Employment effects of R&D and innovation : evidence from small and medium-sized firms in emerging markets
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small … and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor … both R&D and innovation increased employment growth, suggesting that innovation was either capital-saving or labor had …
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Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs : Past, Present and Future Trend
Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2010
This paper provides a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. SMEs are...
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Boosting SMEs' internationalisation in Poland
Goujard, Antoine; Guérin, Pierre - 2020
that innovation policies adapt to smaller firms would boost their innovativeness and ease their integration in national and …
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Entrepreneurial Opportunities for E-Commerce in the Retail Sector in India
Hegde, Dr. Sandeep - 2017
Plug and Play – The Era of Technology Convergence.Emergences of new technologies like Mobile, Cloud and robust payment gateways have enhanced the business models of e-commerce applications. Google pioneered the advertisement based revenue model. Amazon gave a whole new dimension to e-business...
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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay
Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...
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