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EFFECTIVE FACTORS IN NSD PROCESS OF IRANIAN ACTIVE SCIENCE-BASED BUSINESSES IN THE FIELD OF NUTRITION COUNSELING
Meigounpoory, Mohammad Reza; Hashemi, Aliye; Farsi, … - In: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business 10 No 1 Paper 4 January (2013) 4, pp. 33-39
The intensive competition to offer new services in health care systems plus the patients tendency to receive appropriate and modern services have led to the application of innovations. In order to innovate in nutrition counseling services, New Service Development (NSD) process providing the...
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El saber obrero y la innovación en la empresa : las competencias y las calificaciones laborales
Rojas, Eduardo - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1999
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Innovativeness of Exporting firms in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia
Rahmouni, Mohieddine - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 914-930
article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it … Probit models) and non-parametrical regression trees on the results of the first community innovation survey in Tunisia. We … find that the innovation behavior of the three categories of firms is strongly contrasted. Our results show firms that …
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ARE HOUSING DEVELOPERS READY FOR INNOVATION? THE CASE FOR A NEW HOUSING DELIVERY SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA
NOR'AINI YUSOF; SIBLY, SUFARDY; OSMAN, ZULKIFLI - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 09 (2012) 06, pp. 1250042-1
This paper investigates the readiness level of housing developers in Malaysia to adopt a new housing system known as the Build-Then-Sell (BTS) system. We examine whether a firm's characteristics influence its readiness to adopt. We constructed a BTS readiness index, which comprises...
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ACADEMIC LANDSCAPE OF INNOVATION RESEARCH AND NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM POLICY REFORMATION IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES
HASHIMOTO, MASAHIRO; KAJIKAWA, YUYA; SAKATA, ICHIRO; … - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 09 (2012) 06, pp. 1250044-1
Academic landscape of innovation research was analyzed by citation network analysis, which was divided into three main … clusters; with "technological innovation" as the central core together with "innovation fundamentals" and "innovation … management". Historically, research on innovation started from innovation management, such as innovational organization research …
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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …
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Knowledge spillovers and economic performance of firms located in depressed areas: does geographical proximity matter?
Araújo, Liliana; Silva, Sandra T.; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Extensive literature on the contribution of knowledge spillovers to growth and development at the regional level exists but these studies mainly features regions characterised by a high level of economic development. This paper assesses the importance of knowledge spillovers for firms located in...
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Standards and Innovation: Technology vs. Installed Base
Aoki, Reiko; Arai, Yasuhiro - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2013
We present a framework to examine how a standard evolves when a standard consortium or a firm (incumbent) innovates either to improve the standard or to strengthen installed base which increases switching cost. Both investments make it more difficult for another firm (entrant) to introduce a...
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Present and future: a trend forecasting and ranking of university types for innovative development from an intellectual capital perspective
Chen, I-Shuo; Chen, Jui-Kuei - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 1, pp. 335-352
performance has become critical as many nations struggle to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Knowledge, innovation, and IC …
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Demand, supply, and their interaction on markets, as seen from the perspective of evolutionary economic theory
Nelson, Richard - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 1, pp. 17-38
Since the time of Marshall economists have used the constructs of demand and supply curves in their explanation and analyses of how markets determine prevailing prices and the allocation of resources among different lines of economic activity. Today almost all expositions and interpretations of...
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