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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) established the Industries of the Future (IOF) program to increase energy efficiency, reduce waste production and to improve competitiveness, currently focusing on nine sectors. The IOF is a partnership strategy...
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Contracts are widely used by agricultural processors for purchasing inputs not only in developed countries but also in developing countries such as China. The total number of formal, written contracts between farmers and food processors is increasing rapidly in China, and the formal contracts...
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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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entrepreneurship on one of their champions, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter's insights on innovation and entrepreneurship issues are …, though imperfectly, without interference. Originality/value - The paper suggests that innovation and entrepreneurship are the …
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option; it is crucial to the ongoing success of global businesses. Leadership that encourage innovation and entrepreneurial … create shared perceptions that support innovation and entrepreneurship. This paper argues for congruency, as well as …
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) increases on the strategic emphasis placed on innovation, both product and process, positively impact the prominence managers … place on IT; (2) the impact of innovation (both product and process) on performance (both profitability and growth) is …
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This paper extends previous research on the effects of process imitation on economic growth by accounting for stochastic intra-industry spillovers. We employ a non-Schumpeterian growth model to determine the impact of such spillovers on investment in industries where firms are either...
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the source of intra-industry spillover. The main results show that the innovation strategies of the two firms can be …
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