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Purpose – Societal needs produce infrastructural demands that often, require innovative industrial solutions to optimally satisfy them. One such need is fresh clean water and this has been met in part, by a global infrastructure of dams and reservoirs. Dams have borne witness to their...
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Purpose The zero carbon building (ZCB) approach has gained momentum in improving energy performance and reducing carbon emissions. Despite policy promotion for achieving zero carbon, innovative business models (BMs) are needed to overcome the challenges and accelerate the ZCB uptake. However,...
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Reflects on a three‐year project examining the evolving nature of “best practice” benchmarking in UK‐based organisations. The findings describe the current state of benchmarking and some of its advantages across a wide variety of public and private sector organisations. Also investigates...
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improvements rather than breakthrough in marketing innovation. This study extends the biopharmaceutical marketing framework from …
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model that integrates benchmarking, knowledge management and innovation is presented as the main result of the research.  …
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benchmarking and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor a major UK social house building innovation (change) programme. The … innovation programme sought improvements to both the quality of the house product and the procurement process. Design … relationships within the innovation programme. Findings – The inherent competition between consortium members; the complexity of the …
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conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines facets of established theories of innovation adoption to … prominent adoption theories that explain innovation adoption are highlighted and it is noted that while useful, on their own … helps better explain the factors that influence innovation adoption. The factors are categorized into four groups, namely …
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open and cluster innovation and reveal the synergistic effects between the textile and electronic industries. Design … industry took on an open cluster and sought open and cluster innovation through collaborating with foreign firms and the other … study is to highlight the essential characteristics of cluster innovation and the practical growth patterns in the context …
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