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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Innovative capacity"”.
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Regional innovative capacity in Italy : social and economic forces
… policies. This thesis explores regional innovative capacity in Italy, where industrial districts or clusters of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have represented a strong economic force responsible for the country's economic vitality and growth. In order to respond to the changing …
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A THREE PART ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ON FIRM LEVEL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY A SYNTHESIS OF EFFECT, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY.
… We do so by employing the theory of absorptive capacity to guide efforts to isolate the effects that the combination or interaction of investments in research and development and foreign technology have on firm level performance. We adopt Ordinary Least Squares in this endeavor. In the second …
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The Once and future pioneers? : the role of voluntary organizations in innovation in the personal social services
This thesis explores the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations in the field of the personal social services. It commences with a full literature review, which concludes that the wealth of research upon innovation in the organization studies field has not addressed this topic, whilst the …
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Emerging innovation systems in the Baltic States
This study traces the development of innovative capacity in the three transition economies Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since their independence from the USSR. Using three different techniques, it explores the mechanisms of national competence-building and how this is influenced by the …
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Serving Communities During a Global Pandemic: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Ukrainian Social Enterprise
Due to their innovative capacity and social mission, social enterprises build resilience and cohesion in communities by providing for vulnerable groups that governments and markets tend to overlook. In the recovery from COVID-19, while countries attempt to regain lost ground towards their …
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Strategic innovation networks
… on the basis that it was aiming to develop its innovative capacity through product or process innovation projects. The research was carried out over an 18 month period with interviews being held regularly to develop the longitudinal aspect of the study analysis. The data for each individual case …
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Investigating the factors affecting the development of digital innovations in Zimbabwe's SMEs
… the country, the study establishes that both the innovative capacity and performance of SMEs is very low. Additionally, the results also point to a deliberate tendency to suppress the introduction of digital products by some businesses due to the prevalent market demands. Other notable outcomes …
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University-Industry-Government Interaction: Drivers for Innovation in Nigeria
… National Systems of Innovation (NIS), National Innovative Capacity (NIC) and Triple Helix Model (THM) to examine the trilateral interaction in Nigeria based on three parameters, including channels of interaction, developmental stages of the Triple Helix and inhibiting factors. The study is based …
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Hume enterprises in Australia, 1910-1940 : a study in micro-economic growth
… process was the ambition, drive and inventive-innovative abilities of the firm's founder, W.R. Hume. To demonstrate this it has been necessary to show that the firm's greater-than-average rate of growth was mainly due to factors internal to the firm, that the internal factors which initiated …
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Hume enterprises in Australia, 1910-1940 : a study in micro-economic growth
… process was the ambition, drive and inventive-innovative abilities of the firm's founder, W.R. Hume. To demonstrate this it has been necessary to show that the firm's greater-than-average rate of growth was mainly due to factors internal to the firm, that the internal factors which initiated …
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Considerations in Building an Elementary Makerspace Lab
… Entry-level employees must be adaptive, innovative, collaborative, and have strong problem-solving and communication skills. To prepare students for the future workforce, schools must revisit existing practices and find new ways to foster innovation as the gap between the new skills …
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Manufacturing Social Capital: Social Networks through Civic Innovation Initiatives
… entrepreneurs, designers, and artists to develop innovative products with a renewed attention on the rapid and flexible prototyping techniques in the area. This research takes the Sewoon area in the center of Seoul, South Korea as a case to evaluate the efficacy of the network-building innovation …
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Strategies for the introduction of advanced fuel/vehicle systems to the mass market
… time horizon, but that forces deleterious to the innovative capacity of established domestic firms may significantly impede progress. I outline these forces, explain their origins, and recommend industry strategies and public interventions that appropriately address these obstacles.
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Fähigkeiten Schweizer Unternehmen zur Stärkung von Absorptionskapazität und Innovationskultur durch den Einsatz holistischer IoT-Strategien
… of Swiss companies to strengthen the absorption capacity and innovation culture by the application of holistic IoT strategies» examined whether and to what extent Swiss companies are able and willing to react adequately to changes caused by the IoT (Internet of Things) in the business …
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The influence of the Washington Consensus programme on the transitional economies of Eastern Europe – a firm level micro economic analysis.
… may imply market failure. The gains made by innovative firms do not appear to do justice to the initiatives undertaken and may indicate a dilution of national innovative capacity. The independent study of the Balkan region reveals most of the benefits accruing to the service sector …
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Environmental compliance: determinants, interactions and performance
… (firthlogit), this study finds that firms’ innovative capacity, business performance, and environmental performance determine their propensity for green patenting. Higher emissions and lower productivity in the previous year are associated with increased green patent applications. These …