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Business improvement districts (BIDs) are usually established by the legislature as an innovative approach to deliver public services, and funds to support their operations come from taxation on business premises or special property assessment fees levied on property owners for various...
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Business improvement districts (BIDs) are usually established by the legislature as an innovative approach to deliver public services, and funds to support their operations come from taxation on business premises or special property assessment fees levied on property owners for various...
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Budget cuts, budgets deficits, budget overruns, and limited budgets constitute the reality of today’s public sector. This is not only a problem of scarce resources for new investments but the public sector is also struggling with maintaining assets and services at current levels. Therefore,...
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Thesis (PhD (School of Public Leadership))--Stellenbosch University, 2011
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-sector partnerships organize across sectoral interfaces to advance social innovation. This thesis makes three contributions: 1) the … standpoint of the beneficiaries needs to be explicitly discussed when exploring social innovation in cross-sector partnerships; 2 … sustain momentum towards success or rebound from temporary failure in pursuit of social innovation; and 3) despite largely non …
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conditions, social innovation, and earned income. Social capital is the type of resource most significantly related to …
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This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
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innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences … whether mimicry inhibits innovation, or which type of mimicry would be better evaluated. As such, mimicry in Marketing is …
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between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the … goods; design changes tomedical devices; and changes in drug formulas. While the patent lawsprovide a spur to innovation by …
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This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
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