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to realise any innovation can be beyond the company's finite resource base. This can lead to extended time scales …. Collaboration with an academic institution can assist in overcoming this dilemma. This process is not without its difficulties and …
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achievedvia innovations in food packaging using nanotechnology, which is the use of nanosensors in packaging. Ifthere is a … consumers’ valuations offoodborne risk reductions provides an implicit value for nanotechnology (i.e., WTP to avoid) and …
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University-industry partnerships (UIPs) are widely viewed as essential in leveraging research capability and economic performance in organizations and the nation as a whole. In Australia, as in many other countries, the national government commits significant funds to such ‘strategic’...
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market driven and from closed to open. To study inter-firm collaboration types, benefits, and barriers, a qualitative … results provide better solutions to support and encourage inter-firm collaboration for telecom enterprises. …
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economies of scale. An empirical analysis of Georgia cities reports that while cities’ choice of service collaboration is … affected by the transaction characteristics of services, their level of service collaboration is greatly influenced by the …
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Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In some, partners are used primarily to lower development costs and/or...
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Complex international projects face various risks and challenges. Technical, economic and social complexities are constant companions of this form of doing business. Management of intra- and interorganizational network processes are thus a key competence for success.This dissertation analyzes...
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traditional hierarchy with an ego-centric culture. Paradoxically, network-centrism is associated with technology, innovation and … similar technological applications in democratising organisational decision-making in respective of group innovation. …
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The dissertation develops a comprehensive theoretical framework which concerns the impact of institutional framework on economic performance at the micro and macro level. After extensively examining the existing literature, the conception of firm-government network relations and strategic...
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Thesis (MSc (Mathematical Sciences))--Stellenbosch University, 2011
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