characteristics of a cluster having as its basethe elements: cooperation, leadership and innovation. For this, it is reviewed on … case of the papaya cluster in the state ofEspírito Santo as example of cooperation and effort of the economics actors … theeconomic literature the fundamental theoretical concepts of firm, innovation andcompetition, presenting at the last section the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent developments in the fields of management innovation and social … innovation, in order to discover any possible convergences and divergences between them. Design/methodology/approach By examining … substantial differences between management and social innovation in terms of theoretical and conceptual foundations. Although both …

benefits include: a saving of $0.76m because of the reduced time taken to carry out a delimiting survey following the papaya … fruit fly outbreak around Cairns in 1995; a gain of $5.03m from the quicker realisation of papaya fruit fly eradication … benefits; gains of up to $4m a year during the eradication of the papaya fruit fly from Australia as a result of continued …

„innovation“, „cluster“ and „medical device industry“. In chapter 2 the German medical device industry is examined on its … different innovation indicators. Chapter 3 uses Michael Porter`s enhanced economic cluster model as the framework for a …The thesis deals with processes of economic innovation in the German medical device industry. Michael Porter …

model-based cluster and classification method is developed to facilitate the information needed in the study of sub …