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products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the definition of innovation in the OECD … measurement of innovation in the public sector. The policy implications of user innovation by consumers and by firms are … considered along with the importance of including consumer user innovation in official statistics. The paper ends with a …
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units. Such coexistence creates synergies regarding innovation, marketing, and financials. It enables the manufacturing unit … attractive and viable in the long run. These conditions relate to innovation, marketing, the organization, and financial aspects …-manufacturer diversification; and we link user innovation and corporate strategy by showing how user innovation can affect the boundaries of …
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New product development is usually teamwork. Product development teams are cross-functional, representing different functional units, or multidisciplinary, involving several disciplines, or both. In any case, conceiving and developing new products is a joint effort, which means that the standard...
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Generating ideas for new products used to be the exclusive domain of marketers, engineers, and/or designers. Users have only recently been recognized as an alternative source of new product ideas. Whereas some have attributed great potential to outsourcing idea generation to the “crowd” of...
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innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship … investments can be targeted to those new innovative firms. We conclude that technology innovation is a market event, not a …
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complements to, and not substitutes for, the original product. We discuss the implications on firm strategy for innovation …
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user innovation communities and considers how well the European experience supports an understanding of physicians as user …
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This paper investigates the link between innovation and export market participation using Australian small and medium … enterprises (SMEs) data. The results show that export and innovation are positively linked. Depending on the industry and the type … of innovation (process or product), innovation may lead to export and, to a lesser extent, export may lead to innovation …
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This article addresses an issue that is debated in the economics of innovation literature, namely the existence of … producers, we show that: (i) decreasing returns to size and R&D expenditures characterize the innovation production function of …
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innovation that illustrates an endogenous process of internal competition. This often political and contentious process can have …
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