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Increasing pressure from low-cost competition has forced many Western companies to respond by offshoring, i.e. by relocating labor and production facilities to emerging economies (Jensen, Kirkegaard and Laugesen, 2009). This study presents an alternative strategic response, involving investments...
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In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …
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This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...
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Innovation can be a source of competitive advantage for companies, either through the improvement of methods and … important to measure innovation and discuss the results associated therewith. The aim of this research is to address each of the … main indicators of organizational innovation, separately discussing the advantages and disadvantages inherent to their …
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flows for collaboration and innovation. Companies from the two countries as well as Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and … positive relationship with the companies' research and development (R&D) activities and innovation is developed. It was found … out that the set of variables employed can predict the innovation and R&D of companies, laying of electrochemical and …
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This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a phoenix industry - the low carbon vehicles … innovation" approaches in driving the sector, for example noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly …
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This paper reviews existing innovation metrics at the company-level and country-level, and proposes a system of … signposts of innovation to help executives with a guiding framework and data resources for evaluating and planning innovation … of innovation activities that today's businesses undertake. We also incorporate input from The Conference Board members …
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This paper investigates how policy certainty affects firm innovation activities.The identification hinges on the …. Moreover, this paper documents the role of heterogeneity in the effects of policy certainty on firm innovation. The increased … aggressively engage in innovation activities …
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This research is aimed to determine the main values-based innovation able to focus the human resources in the … organizations, to encourage the innovation with higher impact and accurate results for competitiveness, based on successful … analyze and determine a conceptual model that classifies the influence of the main values-based innovation in the organization …
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The ability to develop a work environment climate supporting technological innovation does not occur suddenly or … unexpectedly. The objectives of this paper is to assess the technological innovation climate in one of the largest oil and gas … innovation climate in the company. The study used the situational outlook questionnaire to assess nine key dimensions of …
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