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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Innovation Strategy"”.
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Open innovation strategy : a framework for corporate-startup collaboration
… assets to ensure short term performance. Open innovation strategies, levering on the internal and external entrepreneurial drive, have been proposed to increase the resilience of corporates while opening the opportunity for nascent ventures to grow in new markets. The design of these programs …
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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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Japanese Innovation Strategy and the Aquisition of UK Information Technology Firms
Corporate acquisitions can provide an effective mechanism for maintaining growth in conditions of technological uncertainty, but typically suffer very high failure rates. This thesis presents a resource-based framework for analysing corporate acquisitions in times of rapid technological change. The …
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Integrative Innovation Strategy : a case study of Guaranty Trust Bank plc (GTBank)
… on any one effective management situation or strategy but rather in a novel combination of existing management, strategic and operational components in an innovative manner. I call this combination an "Integrative Innovation Strategy (IIS)" and use it to describe the distinctive advantage of …
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Innovation strategy to sustain a technological edge for national security & global leadership
… United States' global lead in secure technology innovation is a cornerstone of national defense. Breakthroughs in technology are critical in establishing and maintaining military superiority. Technology innovation strategies enable the U.S. to maintain this superiority by effectively yielding …
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Contribution of the European Kodak Research Laboratories to Innovation Strategy at Eastman Kodak
… forced the company to partially adopt an “Open Innovation” model, combining external sources of technology with in-house research. This is the first study to address the question of the European nature of Kodak Research using unpublished laboratory archives. It unveils the complete organisation …
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Underutilized Productive Resources and National Institutions of Corporate Governance: Effects on Firm Innovation Strategy
… that the intensity with which firms engage in innovation development is influenced by heterogeneity in human and physical resource levels within the firm. Moreover, the strength of these relationships is contingent on variation in firm- and country level factors. Penrosian resources motivate …
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The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on Malaysian academics participation in the national innovation strategy
… citizens in participating in Malaysia National Innovation Strategy. The methodology of this exploratory study involve a quantitative designed, web-based survey method. Population include all academicians with Malaysia citizenships in all twenty Malaysia public universities, while actual samples …
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Developing a circumstance-based innovation strategy for a midsized aerospace manufacturer : fostering intrapreneurship, opening boundaries, and seeding disruption
… a case study for developing an actionable innovation strategy for manufacturing firms. The methodology is based around a careful examination of their firm's circumstances, or external context and internal praxis. How a firm should innovate is dependent on industry environment, firm …
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Integrative university collaborations as an innovation strategy for catching-up countries : a case study of the MIT-Portugal Program
… towards knowledge economies, the integration of innovation, higher education (HE) and research policies continues to gain importance. In 2006, the Portuguese government and MIT launched the MIT-Portugal Program (MPP) as an integrative, university-centered innovation strategy that aims at …
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Effect of patent law changes on the innovation strategy of Chinese and Indian Life Science companies as reflected in US patent filings
… through 2008 were analyzed for trends towards innovation. At a high level, we found that 'Drugs and Medical' account for only 6% of Chinese patents but make up 20% of the universe of Indian patents. When evaluating patent activity over time, we found that filings rose exponentially in the …
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Powering through the turn : finding time for concept exploration before industry stagnation
… years to distinguish the needs of exploring new innovation/creating new markets versus exploiting existing capabilities/markets. This concept has been studied across various disciplines, such as organizational learning, leadership, and innovation strategy. In this thesis, we examine how this …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
Innovation in United Kingdom (UK) healthcare has in the last decade been driven forward through national policy and the development of a national innovation infrastructure, underpinned by an imperative to change. An increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) provider units, the NHS trusts, …
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Sustainable and inclusive last-mile transportation for developing countries
… for developing countries. It analyzes current innovation and trends in rideshare and last-mile transportation. It states the challenges of transportation systems in our urban ecosystems, as well as the intimate relationship between transportation and energy demand, energy sources, and …
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Radical innovation of user experience : how high tech companies create new categories of products
… corresponding market segments. The approach to innovation taken by these companies could be called the "radical innovation of user experience." In this work, I will look for common patterns in customer research, product development, and the organizational management of successful user-experience …
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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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Innovating the city : challenges and opportunities in establishing incubators and districts in Paris and Boston
… in specific sectors such as manufacturing, innovation, technology, and advanced services. In this effort to leverage distinctive strengths there has been a movement in cities to seed entrepreneurship as part of broader innovation and industrial strategies. This thesis takes a qualitative …
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Methodology to manage process technology innovation
… Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple innovation projects, but did not successfully implement any of them so far. Lack of organizational integration, an overall R&D strategy, as well as a defined innovation methodology negatively affected the difficult situation of that small group of …
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A survey of human-centered design methodologies for a new hybrid approach in product and experience innovation
… Design & Development, Experience Design, UX Strategy, Design Thinking, The Lean Product Playbook, Value Proposition Design, and The Circular Guide. The combination of these Human-centered methodologies includes qualitative and quantitative research, creative thinking, innovation strategy, …
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Achieving innovation and development speed in large structured organizations : an ecological view and case study
Innovation has been long known to be difficult to accomplish in large companies that have well structured processes. Structured processes (such as the use of Six Sigma) can provide significant benefits in terms of efficiency and productivity. However, it can also hinder innovation in that it zones …
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