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This paper examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Iran by applying the structural equation modelling (SEM). Using the annual time series data for the 1991-2006 period, two models were developed. In the first model the correlation between 12 determining factors and FDI in...
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This paper relates to the experimental draft of the model of collaborative management of ICT practices for use in SME …, developed as part of a project of the Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor. This model aims to propose to SME an optimized … with SME partners. The results are promising and should allow at the end of the project to validate the model in its final …
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This paper relates to an R&D project – called NOEMI – aiming to propose to SME’s a collaborative management of their … respective information systems in terms of quality, reliability and cost. The targeted SME are those without IT dedicated … internal staff. The model developed in the project focuses on the usual IT activities of the SME’s, which are classified in …
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The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledge based environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and...
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between team members or differences in time zones, are not barriers to industry-education collaborations. …
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technology novelty and 2) radical innovation. To test these hypotheses, the relative effectiveness of four types of team …An autonomous team is an emerging tool for new product development (NPD). With its high degree of autonomy …, independence, leadership, dedication, and co-location, the team has more freedom and stronger capabilities to be innovative and …
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, research has not tackled how information is assimilated by the NPD team and to what extent the process of information … team values (beliefs and possibly ideology) and external market feedback / information in radical projects. Via the lens of … rather influenced in interesting ways by internal team values. The findings imply that shared team values act as a selective …
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and Medium enterprises (SMEs). Seemingly, a successful R&D is a task of innovation processes and development of R … enable SMEs towards creation of new knowledge and diffuse in and transfer that to other SME''s could be achieved by … developing of collaborative environments and networks to increase their innovation capabilities as a single unit as well as the …
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development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team … collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and … research. It is argued that setting-up an infrastructure for virtual R & D team in SMEs still requires a large amount of …
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This research aimed to study the relationship between innovation and variables that represent firm performance. Using a … comprehensive database that cross references innovation information gathered by PINTEC (Technological Innovation Research) of IBGE … evaluation of possible relationships between innovation and performance of Brazilian companies was performed. Factorial analysis …
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