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Innovation can be a source of competitive advantage for companies, either through the improvement of methods and … important to measure innovation and discuss the results associated therewith. The aim of this research is to address each of the … main indicators of organizational innovation, separately discussing the advantages and disadvantages inherent to their …
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process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …
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This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
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The productivity paradox has sparked a great deal of research during the past three decades. Unfortunately, neither the results of empirical research nor the theoretical explanations for the paradox provide a convincing answer to whether investments in information and communication technology...
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facilitate mutual knowledge for innovation when people do not already have a common language for effective communication about an … innovation. For example, there can be a lack of common language among diverse participants at public co-creation workshops …: especially when different participants have different perspectives about the same hyped innovation. In this paper, action …
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business partners, be fitted into new or current business networks. In the literature on innovation, the incremental, radical … performed by the author. The findings suggest links between the type of innovation, and the role of the network and network … innovation. Furthermore, the paper contributes to previous research through indicating the various types of innovations …
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In his groundbreaking work Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel discussed from where in (and out of) the value … that discusses these new phenomena and presents a tentative updated pheno-typology of the sources of innovation, adding six … the 10 phenotypes, in comparison to the in-house, non-open innovation, default phenotype. …
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The number of innovation studies with a management perspective has grown considerably over the last 25 years. This … study identified the universities that are most productive and influential in innovation research. The leading innovation … "innovation" and second by 18 management-related research areas. The results indicate that US universities are the most productive …
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This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of projects - the National Productivity and Technological...
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ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …
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