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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Innovation Success"”.
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Enablers of and barriers to digital innovation success: a comparative study of structured versus unstructured technology innovation environments in Kenya
Western theories dominate research on digital innovation in the Global South, neglecting contextual differences. Further, current research lacks focus on how structured versus unstructured innovation environments affect digital innovation success in these contexts. This study's investigation and …
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Innovation Project Funding: A Framework for Rapid Evaluation of Innovation Projects for Implementation Using a System Approach
Success rates of corporate innovation are notoriously low. Improving corporate innovation success rates increases investment efficiency and enables progress toward an improved future. A literature review was completed to develop an understanding of innovation strengths and weaknesses often present …
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The relationship between strategic orientation and firm performance : evidence from small and medium enterprises in Malaysia
… on firm performance. This study also employs innovation success as mediating variable of the strategic orientation/ firm performance to present a more nuanced picture of this relationship by arguing that strategic orientation is able to deliver superior firm performance directly or indirectly …
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Team approaches to developing innovative products and processes
… or process developments and for enhancing their success. Case studies were conducted in 25 UK companies, focusing on environmental technology projects. Research findings emphasised the diversity of organisational team approaches which were more complex when several departments, teams or companies …
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Essays on incentives for innovation
… essays that examine the role of incentives for innovation in organizations. Chapter 2 studies the provision of incentives when workers explore new work methods in parallel. In such a setting under-exploration may result as workers attempt to free-ride on the new ideas of co-workers. Optimal …
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Innovation & competition in a memory process
Does innovation increase or decrease with more competition when innovation follows a memory process? This thesis provides a theoretical model which analyzes the innovation and competition relationship assuming that innovation follows a memory process, i.e. the current probability of innovation …
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The Impact of Social Media Usage for Work Purposes on Innovation in SMEs: The Role of Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing
… by examining the impact of social media usage on innovation through knowledge-sharing and human capital, and the role of the overall perceived usefulness of SMU experience and perceived supervisor support in enhancing the adoption of social media for work purposes. The theoretical framework of …
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Inflow and outflow knowledge/communication strategies in open innovation: essays from new product development and consumer engagement perspectives
… and firm performance metrics under the open innovation paradigm. The dissertation shows the applicability of the NPD and consumer engagement perspectives to a range of strategic issues, such as management of network and knowledge assets in community-based NPD, management of inflow and outflow …
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Information technology capability services that support organisational innovativeness in agriculture companies
… and environmental conditions. Organisational innovation (OI) allows these agriculture organisations to evolve their way of work. Successful OI requires support from various internal and external stakeholders to a firm, and the IT capability has been recognised as a key enabler for …
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Remote online machine condition monitoring using advanced internet, wireless and mobile communication technologies
… Industrial Gearbox, supported by the Stimulation Innovation Success programme (2007-2008); (2) Development of a Remote Control System of Solid Desiccant Dehumidifier for Air Conditioning in Low Carbon Emission Buildings, supported by the Sustainable Construction iNET programme (2009-2010); (3) …
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Technology Venture Emergence Characterisation
… aim to navigate emerging technology ventures and innovations towards successful commercialisation and business development, often over long periods of time. However, this is challenging due to high uncertainties associated with planning and navigating relevant market and business drivers, …
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Innovation team members: emotive outlook and profiles comparisons
Continuous innovation provides competitive advantage to organisations. Teams are considered as a vehicle for achieving innovative objectives, provided that they implement projects successfully. Several studies reported requirements on what constitute the most suitable team composition to ensure …
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Emergenz und Persistenz staatlich geförderter mittelständischer Innovationsnetzwerke und ihrer Promotoren
… participants cooperate for the purpose of joint innovations. With a focus on the effective management functions, which were operationalized according to Witte’s promoter model, a qualitative preliminary study (n=23) was used to first discuss inductively which management functions network members …
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The Effectiveness, Adoption and Application of New Service Development (NSD) Tools and Techniques
… and literature on organizational adoption of innovation. The identified factors include perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, competitive pressure, compatibility, and resource commitment. The third objective is to design a maturity model for NSD. Service firms can use the proposed model …
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Distributed thinking across mind and media: creative design in traditional tools and generative design
Creative design is a central driver for innovation success, as design decisions fundamentally shape downstream performance and cost of products. Visual thinking, the iterative reasoning across internal and external visual representations, is the engine for creative design across engineering, …
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La Magia de LEGO: Un caso de estudio sobre su éxito empresarial
El presente documento contiene el resultado de la investigación de mercado sobre el éxito empresarial de LEGO, este se conforma por un estudio de su entorno donde comprenderemos desde la década de los 70 en adelante los diferentes entornos en los cuales se enfrentó LEGO, luego encontraremos todos …