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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Types of innovation"”.
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Teaching Forests as Living Museums: Case Study Research in Innovative Practices that Further National, Community, and Environmental Sustainability
… storage relevant to climate change), provision of timber and non-timber forest harvests, health, and social benefits, and are places of spiritual value. In response to increasingly changing forest environments, Teaching Forest management requires innovative and proactive measures to integrate …
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Customer-driven innovation within U.S. business services and its impact on firm performance
This thesis examines the innovative performance of 206 U.S. business service firms. Undeniably, a need exists for better comprehension of the service sector of developed economies. This research takes a unique view by applying a synthesis approach to studying innovation and attempts to build under …
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Geography, Linkages and Capabilities: Innovation in the Agricultural Coffee Production in Latin America
The main contribution of this work is the proposal of a conceptual framework that integrates internal (to the firm) conditions with external influences at two geographical proximity levels, local and non-local, with respect to four types of innovation performance: product innovation, process …
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Innovation and corporate renewal
… and a few hardy species. Both are the result of failures to innovate fast enough in the face of changing environments. While "sticking to your knitting" may be good advice in corporate strategy to avoid fragmentation of attention, sitting on the 'corporate laurels' of a leading firm is purely …
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The Effects of Project Management Mechanisms on Innovation Performance in Hi-Tech Firms: Mediation of Teamwork Processes and Moderating Effects of Different Team Members’ Cultural Values
High tech firms increasingly form innovation projects composed of team members with different cultural backgrounds to respond to their customers’ needs. Prior studies have regarded these cross cultural innovation projects as an important instrument for developing innovative products, yet little …
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Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland
This thesis aims to understand processes of innovation in digital media production. Traditional discourses on digital media have tended to foreground the role of technology, its effects and its influences. This thesis argues that a more rounded understanding of digital media can be obtained through …
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Routinization of Sustainable Innovation in Public Sector (A LEED Analysis)
Innovation can be defined as "The use of non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product or the system that is novel to the institution developing the change" (Slaughter1998). And once an innovation is constantly used by an organization on a regular basis, it leads to routinization. Rogers …
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An Investigation of the Effects of Intellectual Capital on Innovations in the Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role of Organisational Capital
… aims to analyse the direct and indirect effects of human capital, social capital and customer capital on the different types of innovations via organisational capital in the service sector. It also examines the interaction among the different types of innovations including product, process and …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
Innovation is a popular topic that receives significant attention from both organizations and academics. This attention includes scholars, executives, public entities, and private organizations in the construction and infrastructure fields. Scholars have examined innovation in both construction and …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
Innovation is a popular topic that receives significant attention from both organizations and academics. This attention includes scholars, executives, public entities, and private organizations in the construction and infrastructure fields. Scholars have examined innovation in both construction and …
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Individual ambidexterity: a critical capability towards innovativeness in organisations
Innovation activities vary over time as organisations evolve towards more exploitative innovation to extract maximum performance from existing knowledge and operations. This is a natural evolution, where past innovators become the leaders, capital allocators and managers. Well-run and continuous …
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A study on the implication of knowledge transfer and social capital on fostering innovation within the partnership between universities and Technology-Based Small Firms (TBSFs)
… to complement their limitations in terms of knowledge, skill and investment. This thesis is concerned with the transfer of knowledge between universities and TBSFs in fostering innovation and understanding the implications of social capital throughout the process.Reviewing previous work, …
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A study of the innovation process within the construction project environment
Over the last decade the low levels of innovation observed within the construction industry have been identified as potentially threatening the long-term future and sustainability of the industry. The root of the problem centres not on its idea generation or creativity capabilities, but on an …
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The Relationship between HRM Practices and Innovation: Perceptions of Employees in the Telecommunications Industry in Jordan
The purpose of this research is to provide a better understanding of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and innovation. This research responds to calls in the literature on HRM and innovation to consider a wider number of HRM practices that have previously been …
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Diagnóstico y propuesta de proceso de gestión de la innovación en la empresa Cake Factory Tradition S.A.S
La gestión de la innovación se ha convertido en un elemento clave en el entorno actual tan competitivo de las Pymes, es por eso que diagnosticar el estado de la innovación es de gran relevancia para asegurar la sostenibilidad de estas organizaciones. La identificación de factores críticos (internos …