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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Efficacy of the Systematic Problem Solving Method 'TRIZ' and it Value for Innovation in Engineering and Implications for Engineering Management

Thomond, Peter N.; Filmore, Paul R. - 2005

by the creativity model of Baille. Results are discussed which show significant innovation development when using TRIZ …

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Does Virtual Prototyping Kill the Potential for Disruptive Innovation?

Thomond, Pete; Jacobs, Joanne - 2007

A critical element of a corporate entrepreneur’s opportunity evaluation process will involve the attempt to understand customer requirements in order to calculate commercial demand. Traditional opportunity evaluation processes are less effective in the face of potentially disruptive...

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Staffing Practices in Australian ICT Micro-Firms: growing virtual?

Twyoniak, Stephane; Burrows, Terrena M. - 2007

Human Resource Management (HRM) research, theory and practice overwhelming views the staffing of firms as a series of discrete functional activities, such as recruitment, selection and training. In this study, we investigate how organisation theory, specifically transaction cost economics (TCE),...

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The performance of young firms: patterns of evolution in the growth-profitability space

Steffens, Paul R.; Davidsson, Per; Fitzsimmons, Jason R. - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...

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The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Economy : Employment and Innovation in Small Firms

Parker, Rachel L. - 2001

Over the last three decades, modern capitalist economies have experienced significant changes in the structure of industry, the nature of production and the organisation of work. There has been a decline in traditional industries such as manufacturing, construction and mining and a growth in...

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Determinants of the prevalence of start-ups and high-growth firms

Davidsson, Per; Henrekson, Magnus - 2002

include: missing arenas for entrepreneurship in the care sectors and for household-related services, taxation of …

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Smallness, newness, and regional development

Davidsson, Per - 2006

The purpose of this book chapter is to present empirical findings and interpretations concerning the role of small and new firms for job creation and economic well-being from a regional perspective. More specifically, we will deal with the following questions: • Are small firms...

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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across...

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A resource-based view on organic and acquired growth

McKelvie, Alexander; Wiklund, Johan; Davidsson, Per - 2006

Understanding the sources of business growth is central to both the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. This is a …

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Entrepreneurship as Growth; Growth as Entrepreneurship

Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic; Wiklund, Johan - 2002

Business growth has become a major theme in the rapidly expanding field of entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, and which are at the same time given only cursory treatment within other lines of research. On the basis of … empirically informed conceptual reasoning, we argue that setting the term ‘entrepreneurship’ equal to ‘start-up of a new …

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