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of innovation for a better management of irrigation water. It takes into account all potential forms of technological … innovation for sustainable development. This analysis is supporting a questionnaire on irrigation practices targeting fifty …
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This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the … traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing, and the reality of innovation activities undertaken in a given economy …
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the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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In this paper we show how the study of asymmetric R\&D alliances, that are those between young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive framework which consider both collaboration and competition. We draw upon...
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Virtualization caused tremendous evolution in the economics of marketing channels, patterns of physical distribution and the structure of distributors and developed a new concept that is known as virtual marketing (VM). VM combines the powerful technologies of interactive marketing and virtual...
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The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high...
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Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of small and medium manufacturing firms over the...
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technological learning and the course of technological innovation. Industry’s recent performance and contemporary global …
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confirm that designer consultants can make a substantial contribution in enhancing firms’ innovation capabilities. We show … forward by firms to manage this relationship in order to gain a competitive advantage driven by innovation. Implications …
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the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …
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