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Unas realidades ignoradas: de Marshall a Becattini

Sforzi, Fabio - 2008

This paper examines how the concept of industrial district, widely recognised as an Italian construct, took shape. It assesses to what extent the concept was tailored to fit the peculiar trait of the Italian economic development, as is claimed by some international authors, and to what extent it...

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Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, … - 2010

This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is...

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The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability

Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2012

An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

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Hungarian car parts industry at a cross-roads: Fordism versus lean production

Attila Havas, Attila - 1995

This article is aimed at shedding some light on the on-going re-structuring process in the Hungarian car parts industry. The performance of this sector can be regarded as a sort of proxy variable to gauge the success of transition to market economy: Hungarian car parts suppliers have lost their...

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Decizia, factor determinant în procesele manageriale și în activitatea de cercetare

Corbu, Ion - 2023

Prezenta lucrare abordează un segment al problematicii complexe cu privire la procesul de luare a deciziilor. Odată cu dezvoltarea tehnologiilor informațioanle s-au dezvoltat și implementat sistemele suport de decizie (DSS) care au devenit din ce în ce mai performante și au fost...

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The Interplay between Innovation and Production Systems at Various Levels: The case of the Hungarian automotive industry

Havas, Attila - 2007

Hungarian suppliers. The paper concludes that diffusion models and the notion of sectoral system of innovation and production … innovation systems still do matter. As for a major element of an NIS, namely government policies, it is more fruitful to create … an attractive, favourable environment for R&D and innovation than focusing on the promotion of industry-specific R&D and …

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How career changes affect technological breakthrough - Reconsidering the prolonged slump of the Japanese economy -

Azuma, Yoshiaki - 2010

This paper develops a simple overlapping-generations model that relates career choices of highly educated workers to the rate of technological progress over time. The paper shows that, in the recent period of technological breakthroughs, if workers either acquire a sufficiently large number of...

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From the Phased Manufacturing Programme to Frugal Engineering: Some Initial Propositions

Tyabji, Nasir - 2015

Although the structural reforms, initiated in 1991, did not lead to any appreciable increase in either the efficiency or the export orientation of Indian manufacturing firms, unexpectedly, there has been a visible improvement in manufacturing design capabilities in certain segments, for...

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Organização do trabalho e controlo de qualidade numa estação de soldadura robotizada

Moniz, António - 1993

In this paper is analyzed the work organization and the forms of quality control in a robotic welding station in a company of office equipment and metal components manufacturing. The robotic cell is recent and works in two shifts. Quality and production rationalization implied in this firms the...

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Organização do trabalho e controlo de qualidade numa estação de soldadura robotizada

Canário, Teresa; Cerveira, Fátima; Moniz, António - 1993

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