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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a best innovation practices framework analyzing the innovation … an intense review of literature in the field of innovation practices inside organizations. The field work is based in … direct observation of innovation practices intended to identify and select those practices that lead to successful …
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Past research has demonstrated that industrial customers can, in effect, bring about product innovation among their … suppliers. However, little seems to be known as to whether consumers are also potential inventors of new services. Presents … regarding mobile telephony. An experimental approach was used to compare the characteristics of new services suggested by …
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services appropriately, but also of keeping competitors from imitating them. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how … service innovation differs from technology/product innovation in terms of protection, and how this shows in collaborative … innovation activities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a literature review combining discussion related to service …
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Purpose – In every market there are non-consumers – potential customers that withstand an innovation. A common reason …/value – While most companies try to innovate faster than their competitors to defend their market leadership, laggard innovation …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how design thinking can be a useful approach for helping interorganizational partnerships create higher levels of value creation for both parties. By integrating concepts related to human cognition, contracts and performance, the authors show how...
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Purpose – The paper aims to describe the application of direct selling, the process of selling a consumer product or service from one person to another, in an environment that is not a permanent retail location. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the application of direct...
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The Supreme Court has made its first ruling on “trade dress”. Trade dress was defined by the Supreme Court as “...the overall image of the business”. The Court granted protection to a Mexican restaurant in Texas and barred a competitor from duplicating its total image. Summarizes the...
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linkages that have large downstream impacts) in radically new innovation, manufacturing, diffusion and adoption …/rejection processes; examines the IMDAR process model (innovation‐manufacturing‐diffusion‐adoption/rejection) of new products. Findings …
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Purpose – This paper is a case study that aims to trace the adoption of innovation of the fabric filter, an innovative … for firms eager to market the next innovation to this unique industrial marketplace.  …
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focus of the study is to increase descriptive knowledge and understanding of innovation and diffusion processes in … development direction. Research limitations/implications – The case study reanalysis and expansion are generalizable to innovation …
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