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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how business environment and performance can be improved in an organization that used and implement Lean Six Sigma methodology and who create an organizational framework auspicious for theirs employees. Lean Six Sigma can be a management approach of an...
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which in many cases is associated with innovation. To turn from a close center oriented economy to market economy required … requirements of competitiveness and innovation of the United European Market are compulsory, from the point of view of the Romanian … competitors USA and Japan. This is why one of the major concerns of the EU is competitiveness and innovation. …
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to describe the process whereby the innovation is implemented. Argyris' and Argyris and Schon's theory of organizational … learning is used to describe the type of learning – single loop or double loop – required by the innovation. Finally, the works … accounting innovation. Findings – The paper advances the notion that an organization's approach to learning and innovation should …
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The European Union declared the year 2009 – The Year of Creativity and Innovation. Creativity and innovation can move … society forward toward prosperity. In this context, we analyzed in our paper the innovation, research & development potential … innovation and a general overview of Europe seen as a place for research activities, we examined in details the Romania case: a …
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The present study describes the situation in the Slovak forestry sector comparing innovation activity in two different … periods (2002 and 2009). The ownership type appeared to be important for the innovation activity of forest holdings. Higher … innovation activity was reported by state-owned enterprises, contradicting the hypothesis based on the theory of property rights …
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, la course vers l’innovation amène les entreprises à protéger leur propriété intellectuelle par des mécanismes tels que le …
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This paper formulates an empirical methodology that evaluates pharmaceutical innovation in the American antidepressant … market by quantifying patient welfare benefits from innovation. While evaluating pharmaceutical innovation in antidepressants … 1980 and 2001. The paper estimates large and varied patient welfare gains due to innovation and helps explain a detected …
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so-called knowledge networks within or around industrial agglomerations that are equally important sources of technology … for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the … suggestions were provided to strengthen the linkages that remain to be wanting but are important for stimulating innovation. …
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following years. Because of this, tourism products require deep innovation, especially since the competitive focus will be on … innovation requires a change in the companies’ policies, as well as in their corresponding strategies. This change would impact … operations, such as: knowledge and information transfers and awareness of national socio-economical competitiveness policies. …
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The analysis of patent and citation data has become a popular source of evidence on localized knowledge spillovers and … innovation. Nevertheless, one aspect has been overlooked: the patent distribution across inventors is extremely skewed, as many …. This raises a number of questions relating to the geography of innovation: do different categories of inventors interact …
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