skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …

- illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has enabled the firm to improve product design. Two conditions favor the results … firms can obtain from consumer’s knowledge. First, is firm’s ability to exploit new opportunities of information and … to initiate a mode of organization by which the consumers are guided and motivated to reveal merely relevant knowledge. …

partners’ relational research capacity, i.e. their ability to evaluate, integrate, process and exploit knowledge flows …

performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

innovation in the process of value creation from ES investments. Empirical data on the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning … (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Knowledge Management System (KMS), and … Document Management System (DMS) is used to investigate the effects on product and process innovation, revenue, productivity …

domaines notamment dans des secteurs très concurrentiels comme la biotechnologie. Ainsi, la course vers l’innovation amène les …

based on innovation. Private equity activity is in this regard a better mode of financing innovative enterprises added to …