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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid...
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Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of...
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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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strongly interrelated with the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3), and to critically evaluate …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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weak ties for small business growth and innovation in emerging economies are discussed. The findings suggest that culture …
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Management literature prescribes innovation as a stimulus for sustained competitive advantage in companies; however … on the body of literature concerned with the factors which influence innovation management in organisations. The aim of … this research is to present a holistic view of the factors that affect innovation management. Using a systematic literature …
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Commercial diplomacy plays a crucial role in the interplay between international business and international relations, yet research regarding it is limited and focuses on a macro-level international relations perspective whereas more integrative meso- and micro-level research is needed. This...
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This article examines how research on agriculture and agribusiness mobilizes the concept of Innovation System (IS). The … uses of this concept. Based on this framework, a bibliometric analysis on international scientific journals in innovation … innovation and IS in this sector. The current challenge is to promote exchanges between these communities, particularly between …
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