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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Product Innovation"”.
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User driven product innovation
Accelerating diffusion of innovation to end users and enabling faster adoption is essential to product developers, especially in the industries having a rapid pace of innovation. The ability of innovators to engage with the user community to understand their needs, motivations and top issues is …
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Product Innovation in the United States Pharmaceutical Industry
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Longevity Risk: Retirement Product Innovation and Risk Management Strategies
… risk. This thesis proposes new retirement income products with various strategies for managing longevity risk. First, we introduce a retirement product to provide pensioners with a lifetime income characterized by smooth investment returns. Our proposed design builds on the advantages of sharing …
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Product Innovation: A Study of Personality Factors in Product Perception
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A Study of Product Innovation in the Automobile Industry During the Period 1919-1962
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Product innovation as a static game of incomplete information in a non-Bayesian environment
… failure of incumbent firms to produce radical innovations is one that continues to provoke significant debate in the economic literature. This phenomenon, termed the "Incumbent's Curse" by Chandy and Tellis (2000, p.2) receives significant support. Rosenbloom and Christensen (1994, p.655) go as …
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Competitive and collaborative supply chains: the strategic role of product innovation, secondary markets and channel structure
Innovation in product and process development is regarded as a key avenue for growth, profitability, and competitive advantage in many industries. With lifetimes of products shortened by both the accelerating pace of technological change and global competition, firms are forced to invest …
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Concurrent development of a rotationally-symmetric barb joint for modular storage systems through product innovation research
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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Understanding the relationship between technical and managerial factors and product innovation at a Tier 1 engine component supplier
… in that most studies concentrate on inter-firm innovation from the customer’s perspective within the supply-chain relationship. While suppliers have increasingly become a source of innovation, very little is known about specific ways in which innovation occurs at Tier 1 suppliers. The mechanisms …
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The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers, Incubators and Accelerator Programmes on the Product Innovation of High-Tech Start-Ups: A Mixed Methods Approach
… area in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. This doctoral thesis seeks to shed light on the effects of knowledge spillovers, incubators, and accelerators on high-tech start-ups performance and survival. Knowledge Spillovers research focuses on the effects of economics and the …
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Critical Firm-based Enablers-Mediators-Outcomes (CFEMOs): A New Integrated Model for Product Innovation Performance Drivers in the Context of U.S. Restaurants
… in the (intermediate and ultimate) outcome(s) of product innovation efforts. To this end, the author draws on the relevant empirical literature and integrates four complementary theoretical perspectives, namely; the critical success factors (CSFs) approach, the resource-based view (RBV), the …
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The impact of cultural differences towards product innovation in smartphone industry: a cross cultural study on consumers from Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom
… and Middle Eastern culture in context of innovation. The purpose of our study is to explore the impact of culture within smartphone industry by developing a framework which compares adoption behaviour. This study aims to fill this gap by developing and testing a conceptual framework based …
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PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR PRODUCT INNOVATING R&D IN A GAME-THEORETIC SETTING
… the role of public support for R&D in product innovation. In particular, I consider the role of matching grant programs and develop a theoretical model to analyze optimal private and public choices in a game-theoretic framework. This research develops-theoretical models to examine …
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Biosimilars: A New Look on Process Innovation and the Impact of Competitive Dynamics
… viewed as a “pure” or distinct type of process innovation completely separate from product innovation due to the Regulatory requirements and this novel phenomenon allows, perhaps for the first time, process innovation to be studied independently from product innovation. This phenomenon is …
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Estimating the economic benefits of advances in computer technology
… which purports to measure the benefits from product innovation and applied his procedure to the computed tomography scanner industry. His results show that hedonic indexes understate the true benefits from improvements in technology in that industry. In this work we have proposed an …
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Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Organisations: The Case of Open Source Software Communities
… as an indicator to knowledge sharing for product innovation is a result of a combination of individual factors as well as individual opinion on the organisational factors. Factors such as an education level/explicit knowledge, incentives/benefits for the future and monetary reward do not …
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