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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"innovation processes"”.
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Validity of innovation processes on outcome and performance
Innovation is a nebulous and subjective field that's definitions and validity is often put into question. To study this field, it is critical to look at thought leaders within the field as well as well established institutions of innovation and analyze their processes to establish a common …
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Knowledge Based Approach to Support Innovation Processes in Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises
Knowledge plays a key role in the management of innovation processes in the organisation. A large number of efforts have been made to support the innovation processes by academics and practitioners in the field of Innovation and Knowledge Management. As a result, there are several methods and …
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Discover. Develop. Deliver: An investigation of innovation processes and systems within New Zealand's red meat industry
… and environmental concerns, all of which drive innovation. A hybridised lens of design thinking, systems thinking, and regenerative thinking was used to investigate the innovation processes and systems within New Zealand’s red meat industry. The case studies selected centred on the emerging …
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Integrating employees in corporate sustainability innovation
The integration of consumers in sustainability innovation processes is a promising approach to make these innovations more successfull. However, involving innovative consumers, e.g. lead users, often involves a lot of effort when they have to be identified and recruited from outside of the company. …
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A constructivist grounded theory study of local social innovation assemblage in Dundee city: perspectives from third sector and funding organisations
Social innovation has proliferated over the last decade in academia, practice, and policy discourses, especially in the Global North. Such emphasis has meant what gets conceptualised and promoted as social innovation determines who the winners and losers are, especially regarding resource …
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Biotechnology value chains as a case study of the knowledge economy : the relationship between knowledge, space and technology
… locations provide an advantage through dynamic innovation processes. Such processes are embedded in places because those places have a particular set of knowledge inputs and provide access to other knowledge inputs outwith those places. In this sense, the knowledge economy can be seen as …
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Dynamics and architectures of innovation systems
Innovation processes are multifaceted. Different studies usually focus on different facets of innovations without being integrated into a complete innovation system. In this thesis, system dynamics and system architecture approaches are adopted to integrate different studies in innovations and to …
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Open innovation in services in private and public sector organisations
Organisations can use innovation to exploit new opportunities and respond to threats. Open innovation is an approach that has been shown to help organisations in managing innovation, particularly due to its emphasis on stakeholder collaboration. While the body of knowledge on the management of open …
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Implementing innovation in real estate development : co-living as an innovative product
… is very conservative and risk averse, yet innovation is critical to its long term viability. While innovation does occur in real estate development, it is often discouraged and not the standard approach. This thesis focuses on understanding the motivations and obstacles facing real estate …
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AN ECOLOGICAL CRITIQUE TO DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH THE CASE OF ESPORTS
… increasingly applied to examine platforms and innovation processes across both traditional and digital industrial sectors, particularly in scenarios where complementarity, interdependence, and non-hierarchical structures define the interactions among networked organisational entities. …
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A study of open innovation and its applications to product design
… internet and social media have democratized the innovation opportunities for small startups and individual innovators. This is creating more ways for companies to exploit external ideas for their internal innovation. The dominant use of open innovation today is in idea generation. However, some …
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Three Empirical Studies on Digital Innovation Management: New Organizing Logic of Antecedents and Consequences of Innovation
<p>In the last decade, innovation has undergone considerable changes in most industries. Digital innovation may represent the use of digital technology in the innovation process or to the end outcome of innovation. Over the years, innovation has become open, global, and collaborative in nature and …
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Establishing An Infrastructure For Nursing Innovation In A Large Urban Magnet®hospital
… to healthcare challenges, dedicated nursing innovation development programs are scarce. This scarcity, compounded by a lack of nursing leadership competencies in fostering innovation, inhibits nurses' ability to translate innovative ideas into clinical practice effectively.</p> …
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Strategic innovation networks
This thesis draws on two key areas of the innovation literature, the strategic management of technology (SMOT) and innovation networks. The aim is to integrate these two areas of the management of innovation literature to develop a framework which I describe as the Strategic Innovation Network …
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From innovators perspective : process of grassroots innovation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
… there has been a growing interest in grassroots innovation in India and beyond, both as an area of formal research and practice. Although many different explanations of grassroots innovations exist in literature, they can be understood as novel products and processes that solve an unmet need or …
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National innovation system building in a developing country context : the case of Turkey
… the central status of technological change and innovation in national development, this dissertation investigates policy development processes at the national level and private firm and extra-firm institutional interactions at national, international, and regional levels to gain insights on the …
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Managerial cognitions in technological innovation processes:a study of interpretative processes
… of the links between technological innovation and organizational change are explored and recommendations in the literature concerning such changes are reviewed and criticized. Such recommendations do not usually address the details of social interactions by which organizational …
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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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Innovation in quantity surveying practice firms : an investigation of innovation response during compressed pre-contract timelines in Nigeria
… enable the development and validation of an innovation process model that could prove very useful in analysing data and understanding innovation processes in QS firms. Also, through relevant concepts, theories and models, the study appears to sit comfortably within a theoretical model …
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How intermediaries build social capital for transformative social innovation
Researchers have called for innovation policy that focuses on addressing social needs. This involves an inclusive and experimental process where solutions to complex problems need to be developed “on the ground” with local stakeholders. There is an urgent need for such transformative innovative …
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