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Showing 1 to 20 of 5431 for “"Innovation"”.
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Hacking innovation - group dynamics in innovation teams
Innovative work is gradually shifting towards collaborative efforts by larger, multidisciplinary teams, making team efficacy an increasingly important field of study. Researchers in this field have mainly focused on laboratory experiments, which may not fully capture the complex situations that …
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Translating innovation
This doctoral thesis studies the process of innovation adoption in public administrations, addressing the research question of how an innovation is translated to a local context. The study empirically explores Design Thinking as a new problem-solving approach introduced by a federal government …
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Innovation Spaces
Innovation ecosystems today are the lifeblood or the great hope of many major economies, but at the heart of these ecosystems, there are places and spaces. Silicon Valley is not just a place, but a cluster of spaces where people come together to create and innovate in a way that they could not …
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Collective innovation
… Achieving successful, repeated organizational innovation, however, is a significant challenge. The hurdles to such innovation run the gamut from psychological to structural to procedural. Managers can fall victim to myopia and other human level challenges. Organizational processes, structures, …
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Blue ocean strategy and innovation performance, mediated by innovation strategies
Innovation is one of the integral elements of competitive advantage of any organization and the country. Global innovation index has been representing, a decline in Malaysian innovation performance since 2013. Manufacturing sector supports 82% in Malaysian exports but 31% of its firms are …
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Open Innovation Practices and Innovation Performance: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach
… study explores empirically the link between open innovation and dynamic capabilities. The aim is to understand the relevant capabilities required by firms to effectively engage in open innovation practices and how these practices affect innovation performance. The analysis is based on five …
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Demystifying innovation: harnessing natural language processing to comprehend organizational innovation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Innovation trap : can your innovation strategy cripple your product development?
Innovation is a hot topic; innovation is happening everywhere. Innovation is "romantic", reaching for the stars, against all odds, solving the problem no one thought possible. Most CEOs would not characterize survival as "romantic". Innovate or perish; the mantra, the truth, plain, stark, cold and …
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Opening innovation procurement
… and inclusive European growth through innovation. Moving beyond primary goals of service improvement and cost reduction, innovation procurement practices of public agencies can pursue secondary goals such as innovation and sustainability. However, an increased focus on core competences …
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Culture-driven innovation
… potential of underexplored cultural sources for innovation. Nowadays, firms recognize an increasing demand for innovation to keep pace with an ever-growing dynamic worldwide competition. Knowledge is one of the most crucial sources and resource, while until now innovation has been foremost driven …
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Essays on Innovation
… A major driver for technology advancements is innovation that increases productivity and promotes economic growth. This dissertation serves as further understanding of the innovation process. Specifically, this thesis focuses on three different aspects: i) how to incentive re- search (Chapter 1 …
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Innovation Under Stress
… aim of the dissertation is to explore firms’ innovation strategies during certain stressful periods. This dissertation consists of 3 chapters. . .</p> <p>Chapter 1: Innovation Diversification Under Policy Uncertainty</p> <p>Using detailed data on patent grants and applications, I explore the …
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Strategic innovation networks
This thesis draws on two key areas of the innovation literature, the strategic management of technology (SMOT) and innovation networks. The aim is to integrate these two areas of the management of innovation literature to develop a framework which I describe as the Strategic Innovation Network …
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Reintroducing Invention to Innovation: Investigating the White Space in Marketing Innovation
… between rhetorical theory and marketing innovation as practiced in the consumer packaged goods industry. Marketing innovation, or the development of new products, product features (including packaging and messaging), and services, is a process-heavy practice often resulting in incremental …
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Collaborative alliances and organisational innovation : a study of the innovation process
… voluminous studies written about organisational innovation over the last 30-40 years our understanding of this phenomenon continues to be inconsistent and inconclusive (Wolfe, 1994). An assessment of the theoretical and methodological issues influencing the explanatory utility of many studies has …
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Accelerating digital health innovation : analyzing opportunities in the healthcare innovation ecosystem
… a dramatic increase in demand for healthcare innovation. In this thesis we present a framework for analyzing a digital health innovation ecosystem in the US. Our framework consists of four key activities: innovation generation, entrepreneurial team formation, early company incubation, and …
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An exploration of how professional associations advance innovation and promote innovation pedagory
… and this point presents a significant barrier to innovation.
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Understanding eco-innovation: External drivers, internal barriers and impacts on open innovation
Las eco-innovaciones han suscitado interés en diferentes ámbitos debido a su enfoque ambidiestro, que gestiona tanto actividades económicas como medioambientales. Los beneficios sociales y económicos derivados de la implementación de eco-innovaciones han generado un amplio interés en la literatura, …
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Improving the Innovation Performance of Ireland’s Dairy Industry: An Innovation Systems Approach
This thesis provides new insight into innovation in Ireland’s dairy industry. The thesis measures the innovation performance of dairy products on global markets and uses the framework of innovation systems to explore why and how innovation brokers are established as an essential part of the …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE INNOVATION
… examines various aspects of corporate innovation. Specifically, it investigates how innovation information disclosure affects firms’ decisions on mergers and acquisitions and cost stickiness, as well as how gender disparity affects innovation outcomes by female inventors.The first …
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