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Innovative Conduct In Computing And Internet Markets
Oct 2009
How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and internet markets evolved over the past half century? This paper discusses these questions in light of six topics: the limited role for...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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New Equipment Enhances Accenture Information Technology Management Lab
Oct 2009
Among improvements is increased network capability. Along the perimeter of the classroom, assistant professor John D'Arcy can set up four networks, each with five personal computers and a server....
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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IT Management Lab Gets New Microsoft Surface Unit: Hands-On Computer Aids In Group Projects
Aug 2009
A new computer at the Mendoza College of Business brings a fresh meaning to the phrase "hands-on learning." The Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch computer that responds via infrared cameras and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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Keeping The Founders' Spirit Alive
Jan 2009
According to the economist Joseph Schumpeter, the entrepreneurial spirit is a process of constant reinvention through innovation. Entrepreneurship has also been described as the art of creating...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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CSR Managers In Front Of The Mirror
Jan 2008
According to the European Commission, "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Innovative Companies Rethink Pricing Metrics
Oct 2008
When General Electric entered the jet engine market, the Ohio-based company took an innovative approach to pricing policy. Instead of selling jet engines for a one-time fixed cost, GE decided to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Think Like An Entrepreneur For Corporate Success
Apr 2009
Corporate leaders looking for guidance in the prolonged economic crisis should check their rearview mirrors for fast-approaching global entrepreneurs, Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D.,...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Book Bonus: Selecting The Right Foreign Market
Apr 2009
With so many prospective countries available for expansion, one critical issue for the global entrepreneur is foreign market selection. Thunderbird Professor Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., shares a...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Success Comes As 'unintended' Result For Entrepreneur Of The Year
Jun 2009
Success has come as an unintended side effect for Trevor Stansbury, Thunderbird's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year and a 1992 graduate of the business school in Glendale, Ariz. Supply Dynamics helps...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Sustainable energy innovation at the base of the economic pyramid
Apr 2010
Dickinson noted that in Asia the innovation is coming from within the region. "I don't think the developed world has a lot to offer the base of the pyramid in terms of products," he noted. "In...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Can´t Compete With Costs? Use Culture Instead
Jan 2008
Competing in quality and innovation is the strategy of the future for industries affected by outsourcing and growing competition from surrounding countries, says IESE Prof. Xavier Vives in his...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Do Innovations Really Payoff? Total Stock Market Returns To Innovation
Mar 2008
Critics often decry an earnings-focused short-term orientation of management that eschews spending on risky, long term projects such as innovation in order to boost a firm's stock price. The...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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Innovation Does Pay Off: If You Measure Correctly
Jul 2009
Innovation is probably one of the most important forces fueling the growth of new products, sustaining incumbents, creating new markets, transforming industries, and promoting the global...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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Business Evolution In China
Oct 2009
Extensive study on industry evolution has produced fairly set models on the ways in which technical innovation drives success and determines winners and losers in the market. A few large,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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And In This Corner, Google
Jul 2009
Google fired another salvo in its ongoing battle with Microsoft recently when it announced plans to offer an operating system based on its Chrome software. The two giants already face off in the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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New Game Strategies To Create And Capture Value
Jun 2009
In his book Strategic Innovation (Routledge, 2009), professor Allan Afuah demonstrates the value of "New game" strategies in the face of rapid technological change and increasing globalization....
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Mixed Backgrounds Improve Organizational Innovation, Creativity
Jun 2008
Like Barack Obama and millions of Americans, Ross School professor Fiona Lee comes from a mixed cultural background. She is an Asian American who was born in Europe, grew up in Hong Kong and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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The Ultimate Cultural Change: Vodafone Spain's Technology Area
Sep 2008
Making cultural change happen and improving employees' engagement and motivation cannot be done overnight. It is a medium-term challenge that requires a committed management team, a detailed...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Cut Costs Without Losing Competitiveness
Jan 2010
Ninety percent of business leaders say they have paid more attention to costs since the financial crisis took hold. Some have asked every department for an across-the-board 10 percent cut in...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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World's Top Management Guru Calls For Radical Innovation At First India Business Conference
Oct 2009
Prahalad is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy at Ross. He presented his vision for "India at 75" during the school's premier India Business Conference Oct....
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Working Formula For Tackling Large-Scale Poverty
Jan 2010
Tackling large-scale poverty is daunting. What can one small organization do? Yet despite the seemingly endless nature of the task, key opportunities do exist for entrepreneurial companies, say...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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CEO: Greater The Risk, Bigger The Payoff
Jan 2008
The words "CEO compensation" in today's post-Enron age are likely to inspire pay rage. The top 20 highest paid executives in U.S. public companies made an average of $36.2 million in 2006,...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Innovation-as-Practice: Examining The Relationship Between Leaders' Espoused And Enacted Innovation, And Innovation Outcomes And Firm Performance
May 2008
Innovation is widely regarded as a critical source of competitive advantage in an increasingly changing environment and thus has attracted considerable attention from both academics and...
Provided by University of Western Ontario
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Innovate Now: Lean Times Can Be The Best Times
Oct 2009
To compensate for the sour economy and pullback on consumer spending, many companies are cutting costs like never before. But are they trimming fat or bone? It may sound counter-intuitive, but a...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Nearly Modular Structure Offers The Best Of Both Worlds
Feb 2008
While modularity has gained popularity as an organizational and technical architecture in complex systems, its proponents have overlooked the down side, says a Ross School professor. Granted,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Shedding The New Venture Mystique
Jun 2009
With big companies shedding jobs in this recession, some former employees and unattached executives are exploring entrepreneurship. Those venturing there for the first time will find entrepreneurs...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Leading Innovation In The Real World
Jan 2010
With corporate budgets tight and customers ever more demanding, C-level executives are looking for self-starting leaders with imagination - the kind of imagination that transcends expectations. In...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Unlocking the potential of The UK?s Hidden Innovators
Apr 2008
The Enterprise Strategy Whitepaper launched in March by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform highlighted the need for the UK to create a culture of Enterprise, Innovation...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Transition To The Future: Mining And Mineral Processing In China
Jun 2010
China's mining and mineral processing sector has for years been one of the most significant markets for the world's technology leaders. Increasingly, however, the tables are turning. Innovations...
Provided by INSEAD
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Upstart: China's Emergence In Technology And Innovation
Jun 2010
It can easily appear as if China can make anything. Yet it makes goods not only at low cost, but now also of high quality, and this constitutes a particularly Chinese brand of innovation that...
Provided by INSEAD
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Businesses Increasingly Face Water Risks
May 2010
The world will face a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030. The good news is that if one are smart, one can meet the challenge successfully. But this can only happen through...
Provided by INSEAD
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Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups!
Dec 2007
High-innovation, technology-based startups have a very special role in both intra and entrepreneurship. They produce proportionately far more jobs and value than their low- and medium-innovation...
Provided by IMD
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Re-Skilling Europe For The New Global Knowledge Economy
Jan 2010
Europe today is suffering from a skills shortage, made even worse by the economic crisis. Over the past decade, many business leaders have stressed that Europe is simply not producing, attracting,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Family Values: Leading The Way Out Of The Downturn
Sep 2009
Family-owned businesses have been hit by the economic downturn like many others. But while they have suffered along with everyone else, they are able to leverage an inherent competitive advantage...
Provided by INSEAD
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Creative Entrepreneurs Can Survive The Crisis
Jan 2010
Creative entrepreneurs can weather the current global economic crisis better than traditional businesses, says the author. "It's not the creative entrepreneurs but it's the large companies that...
Provided by INSEAD
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A Positive Theory Of Social Entrepreneurship
May 2009
This paper proposes a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. By highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when...
Provided by INSEAD
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Agency In Action: Entrepreneurs' Networking Style And Initiation Of Economic Exchange
Apr 2010
This multi-method study investigates the effects of entrepreneurs' interpersonal networking style on the initiation of inter organizational exchange ties. This study makes a theoretical...
Provided by INSEAD
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A Matching Theory Of Entrepreneurs' Tie Formation Intentions And Initiation Of Economic Exchange
Feb 2010
This study advances our understanding of network dynamics by applying matching theory to examine entrepreneurs' intentions to add new ties to their personal network. The author propose that task...
Provided by INSEAD
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Scaling Social Innovations: The Case of Gram Vikas
Mar 2010
The purpose of this paper is to better understand the process of innovation transfer between social sector organizations, an area that is at the nexus of research on social entrepreneurship,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Entrepreneurs' Networking Actions And Referral Based Search For New Exchange Partners
Jul 2008
Existing theories of inter-organizational relationship formation imply that decision makers use referrals from current partners to form new ones, leading to dense ties that aggregate into...
Provided by INSEAD
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Prizes And Patents: Using Market Signals To Provide Incentives For Innovations
Oct 2009
Innovative activities have public good characteristics in the sense that the cost of producing, say, the first unit of a new good is high compared to the cost of producing subsequent units....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Communicating Technical Knowledge
Oct 2010
In patent theory, the cost of communicating technical knowledge is small. In human capital theory, it is large. But evidence suggests that these costs are actually endogenous. Firms invest in...
Provided by Boston University
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Cost Innovation: Schumpeter And Equilibrium - Part 1: Robinson Crusoe
Mar 2011
Modifying a parallel dynamic programming approach to a simple deterministic economy, the authors consider the effect of an innovation in the means of production. The success of the innovation is...
Provided by Yale University
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With A Little Help From My (Random) Friends: Success And Failure In Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Mar 2011
To what extent do peers affect the occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry....
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Rate And Direction Of Invention In The British Industrial Revolution: Incentives And Institutions
Apr 2011
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? The authors argue that one hitherto...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Organization Of R&D In American Corporations: The Determinants And Consequences Of Decentralization
May 2011
The authors study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the organizational structure of 1,290 American publicly-listed...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Privacy And Innovation
Jun 2011
Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Are You Leveraging Your Vendors For Innovation?
Jun 2011
Your company may be giving IT vendors more help with their innovation than your own innovation. Don't just give away great ideas. Work with your vendors to not only implement innovation in their...
Provided by CastlePointe
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Foresight Course Faculty Members Win IBM Smarter Planet Award
May 2011
Imagine a city where all the major elements of the infrastructure - transportation, utilities, technology - operate according to a "Smart" plan, an integrated approach that conserves resources,...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Interest Prohibition And Financial Product Innovation
Apr 2011
The authors give a rough sketch of the Judaic, Greek, Islamic and Christian positions in the matter of interest prohibition during the last few millennia and discuss the way in which interest...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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Whitepapers
Ventana Research Value Index - Product Information Management 2011
Jun 2011
Read how Ventana Research evaluated the maturity of software vendors and products and their appropriateness for the methodology and process of Product Information Management. The report provides a...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
Education Innovation
Jul 2010
Helping families determine whether that costly college degree will really lead to a high-paying job is just one of the reforms senior fellow Grover "Russ" the presenter proposes for improving U.S....
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Investing In The ?Next Wave? Of Technology Innovation
Jun 2011
Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives, changing the way we work and play. The presenter, vice president and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings,...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Incentives And Invention In Universities
Sep 2007
Using data on U.S. universities, the authors show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Innovation In Business Groups
Nov 2007
Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. The authors find that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Motivation And Sorting In Open Source Software Innovation
Oct 2008
This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. The authors exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Impacts Of The Climate Change Levy On Business: Evidence From Microdata
Mar 2009
The authors estimate the impacts of an energy tax - the Climate Change Levy (CCL) - on the manufacturing sector using panel data from the UK production census. The identification strategy builds...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?
Oct 2009
The authors explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. They find management innovations are associated with...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Impact Of The Diffusion Of A Financial Innovation On Company Performance: An Analysis Of Swift Adoption
Aug 2010
How does a major financial network innovation influence firm performance? Despite much speculation the authors have little hard quantitative evidence about the impact of technology diffusion in...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Effect Of Market Entry On Innovation: Evidence From UK University Incubators
Sep 2010
This paper investigates the effect of market entry of new firms on incumbent firms' innovative activity measured as patent applications. The basic assumption is that the effect of entry varies by...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Spinning Welfare: The Gains From Process Innovation In Cotton And Car Production
May 2011
Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads,...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Technology Supply Chain Or Innovation Capacity?: Contrasting Experiences Of Promoting Small Scale Irrigation Technology In South Asia
Nov 2009
The most effective approach to agricultural technology promotion and innovation is still a source of considerable debate, and nowhere more so than in the context of agricultural engineering...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Environmental Porter Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence And A Model Of Timing Of Adoption
Aug 2007
The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset by adoption of innovations they trigger. The authors model this hypothesis using a game of...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Productivity Effects Of Internal And External R&D: Evidence From A Dynamic Panel Data Model
Nov 2009
The authors examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. They apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for...
Provided by United Nations University
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National Systems Of Innovations And The Role Of Demand. A Cross Country Comparison
Sep 2007
This paper focuses on the role of demand in the National System of Innovations: why it is so important, and how does it affect the dynamics of the system and the flow of inventions and...
Provided by United Nations University
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Reframing Technical Change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited As Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 1. A Review Of Historical And Recent Experiences
Nov 2009
This is the first in a series of three papers that develop a conceptual framework for a project on livestock fodder innovation. Livestock is important to the livelihoods of poor people in many...
Provided by United Nations University
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Reframing Technical Change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited As Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 2. A Framework For Analysis
Nov 2009
This is the second in a series of three papers that develop a conceptual framework for a project on livestock fodder innovation. The paper begins by reviewing the evolving paradigms of...
Provided by United Nations University
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Reframing Technical Change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited As Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 3. Tools For Diagnosis And Institutional Change In Innovation Systems
Nov 2009
The exploration of fodder innovation capacity requires tools to undertake the following tasks: Diagnosis of fodder innovation capacity to identify project starting points, including micro and...
Provided by United Nations University
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A Percolation Model Of Eco-Innovation Diffusion: The Relationship Between Diffusion, Learning Economies And Subsidies
Nov 2009
An obstacle to the widespread adoption of environmentally friendly energy technologies such as stationary and mobile fuel cells is their high upfront costs. While much lower prices seem to be...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Challenge Of Measuring Innovation In Emerging Economies~ Firms: A Proposal Of A New Set Of Indicators On Innovation
Nov 2009
The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centering on the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation...
Provided by United Nations University
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Formal And Informal External Linkages And Firms? Innovative Strategies. A Cross-country Comparison
Nov 2009
Firms increasingly rely upon external actors for their innovation process. Interaction with these actors may occur formally (i.e. through a collaboration agreement) or informally (i.e. external...
Provided by United Nations University
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Private Capacity And Public Failure: Contours Of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity In Kenya
Nov 2009
Globalization, urbanization and new market demands - together with ever-increasing quality and safety requirements - are putting significantly greater pressures on agrifood stakeholders in the...
Provided by United Nations University
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Are International Market Demands Compatible With Serving Domestic Social Needs? Challenges In Strengthening Innovation Capacity In Kenya?s Horticulture Industry
Nov 2009
Agrifood stakeholders across the world are under ever-increasing pressure with globalization and new market demands - together with changing quality and safety requirements. The ability to respond...
Provided by United Nations University
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Measuring Eco-Innovation
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors offer a discussion of eco-innovation and methods for measuring it. Eco-innovation is a new concept of great importance to business and policy makers, covering many...
Provided by United Nations University
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Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers The Answer?
Nov 2009
This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an...
Provided by United Nations University
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Incubators As Tools For Entrepreneurship Promotion In Developing Countries
Nov 2009
This paper reviews the literature on incubators in developed and developing countries. The authors show that the concept of incubators has evolved in time according to market and firm needs....
Provided by United Nations University
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User Innovation And The Market
Mar 2011
This paper proposes a way of including in official statistics consumers as user innovators who modify or develop products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the...
Provided by United Nations University
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Absorptive Capacity In Technological Learning In Clean Development Mechanism Projects
Mar 2011
Technology transfer in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects of the Kyoto Protocol has become one of the important issues addressed both in policy agenda and by academic scholars. In many CDM...
Provided by United Nations University
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State-led Technological Development: A Case Of Chinas Nanotechnology Development
May 2011
The authors analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the...
Provided by United Nations University
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Voluntary Agreements And Community Development As CSR In Innovation Strategies
Jun 2011
The present paper examines how an innovating firm decides between two forms of Voluntary Agreements (VA) in a context, where a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches...
Provided by United Nations University
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Cut Costs Without Losing Competitiveness
Jan 2010
Ninety percent of business leaders say they have paid more attention to costs since the financial crisis took hold. Some have asked every department for an across-the-board 10 percent cut in...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
World's Top Management Guru Calls For Radical Innovation At First India Business Conference
Oct 2009
Prahalad is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy at Ross. He presented his vision for "India at 75" during the school's premier India Business Conference Oct....
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Working Formula For Tackling Large-Scale Poverty
Jan 2010
Tackling large-scale poverty is daunting. What can one small organization do? Yet despite the seemingly endless nature of the task, key opportunities do exist for entrepreneurial companies, say...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
CEO: Greater The Risk, Bigger The Payoff
Jan 2008
The words "CEO compensation" in today's post-Enron age are likely to inspire pay rage. The top 20 highest paid executives in U.S. public companies made an average of $36.2 million in 2006,...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Innovation-as-Practice: Examining The Relationship Between Leaders' Espoused And Enacted Innovation, And Innovation Outcomes And Firm Performance
May 2008
Innovation is widely regarded as a critical source of competitive advantage in an increasingly changing environment and thus has attracted considerable attention from both academics and...
Provided by University of Western Ontario
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White Papers
Innovate Now: Lean Times Can Be The Best Times
Oct 2009
To compensate for the sour economy and pullback on consumer spending, many companies are cutting costs like never before. But are they trimming fat or bone? It may sound counter-intuitive, but a...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Nearly Modular Structure Offers The Best Of Both Worlds
Feb 2008
While modularity has gained popularity as an organizational and technical architecture in complex systems, its proponents have overlooked the down side, says a Ross School professor. Granted,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Shedding The New Venture Mystique
Jun 2009
With big companies shedding jobs in this recession, some former employees and unattached executives are exploring entrepreneurship. Those venturing there for the first time will find entrepreneurs...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Leading Innovation In The Real World
Jan 2010
With corporate budgets tight and customers ever more demanding, C-level executives are looking for self-starting leaders with imagination - the kind of imagination that transcends expectations. In...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Unlocking the potential of The UK?s Hidden Innovators
Apr 2008
The Enterprise Strategy Whitepaper launched in March by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform highlighted the need for the UK to create a culture of Enterprise, Innovation...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Transition To The Future: Mining And Mineral Processing In China
Jun 2010
China's mining and mineral processing sector has for years been one of the most significant markets for the world's technology leaders. Increasingly, however, the tables are turning. Innovations...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Upstart: China's Emergence In Technology And Innovation
Jun 2010
It can easily appear as if China can make anything. Yet it makes goods not only at low cost, but now also of high quality, and this constitutes a particularly Chinese brand of innovation that...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Businesses Increasingly Face Water Risks
May 2010
The world will face a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030. The good news is that if one are smart, one can meet the challenge successfully. But this can only happen through...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups!
Dec 2007
High-innovation, technology-based startups have a very special role in both intra and entrepreneurship. They produce proportionately far more jobs and value than their low- and medium-innovation...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Re-Skilling Europe For The New Global Knowledge Economy
Jan 2010
Europe today is suffering from a skills shortage, made even worse by the economic crisis. Over the past decade, many business leaders have stressed that Europe is simply not producing, attracting,...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Family Values: Leading The Way Out Of The Downturn
Sep 2009
Family-owned businesses have been hit by the economic downturn like many others. But while they have suffered along with everyone else, they are able to leverage an inherent competitive advantage...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Creative Entrepreneurs Can Survive The Crisis
Jan 2010
Creative entrepreneurs can weather the current global economic crisis better than traditional businesses, says the author. "It's not the creative entrepreneurs but it's the large companies that...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
A Positive Theory Of Social Entrepreneurship
May 2009
This paper proposes a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. By highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Agency In Action: Entrepreneurs' Networking Style And Initiation Of Economic Exchange
Apr 2010
This multi-method study investigates the effects of entrepreneurs' interpersonal networking style on the initiation of inter organizational exchange ties. This study makes a theoretical...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
A Matching Theory Of Entrepreneurs' Tie Formation Intentions And Initiation Of Economic Exchange
Feb 2010
This study advances our understanding of network dynamics by applying matching theory to examine entrepreneurs' intentions to add new ties to their personal network. The author propose that task...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Scaling Social Innovations: The Case of Gram Vikas
Mar 2010
The purpose of this paper is to better understand the process of innovation transfer between social sector organizations, an area that is at the nexus of research on social entrepreneurship,...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Entrepreneurs' Networking Actions And Referral Based Search For New Exchange Partners
Jul 2008
Existing theories of inter-organizational relationship formation imply that decision makers use referrals from current partners to form new ones, leading to dense ties that aggregate into...
Provided by INSEAD
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Scouts And Integrators: The Joint Effect Of Network Density And Firm Centrality On Business Innovativeness In Buyer-Supplier Networks
Oct 2008
Several studies in the social networks literature suggest that more central firms in a given network will be more innovative, but the literature not considered how variation in network density...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Lessons From India In Organizational Innovation: A Tale Of Two Heart Hospitals
Oct 2008
Recent discussions in health reform circles have pinned great hopes on the prospect of innovation as the solution to the high-cost, inadequate-quality U.S. health system. But U.S. health care...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Physician-Industry Cooperation In The Medical Device Industry
Dec 2008
Anecdotal evidence suggests that innovative medical devices often arise from physicians' inventive activity, but no studies have documented the extent of such physician engaged innovation. This...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Liquidity Rules: Manage Innovation Or Risk Repeating History
May 2009
On the surface, the meltdown of the U.S. subprime mortgage market should not have triggered a worldwide financial crisis. Worst-case estimates put subprime mortgage losses at $250 billion - a drop...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The Global "Idea" Market: Innovation And International Trade In Technology
Apr 2009
When we imagine international trade, we conjure up images of supertankers and massive container ships, or maybe ships laden with exotic cargoes of rum, coffee, and spices. But international trade...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Innovating Through Acquisition And Internal Development: A Quarter-Century Of Boundary Evolution At Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2010
This paper discusses how firms innovate within and across firm boundaries by reconfiguring their resources and business units over time. Focusing on acquisitions and internal development as key...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Softening The Blow Of Bad News
Oct 2007
Chief financial officers and investors focus on earnings per share more than any other single financial figure. Researchers in accounting have long confirmed that the price of a company's stock is...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Running Neck And Neck: Research And Development Races
Mar 2008
The dynamics of a sector caught up in research and development races such as these have intrigued economists and other business scholars for years. As such, the technology industry has been...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
Jan 2009
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today, and is in use even in the new Obama administration. The President is quite familiar with the term...
Provided by Stanford University
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All Entrepreneurship Is Social
Jan 2010
Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Enhancing Business Education For Rural Entrepreneurs
Apr 2009
PDA is a micro lender that provides villagers with loans free of the stringent collateral requirements of traditional banks. It also requires loan seekers to participate in a comprehensive...
Provided by Stanford University
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact Of Chinese Imports On Innovation And Information Technology
Feb 2009
There is a popular belief that Chinese imports have devastated US and European manufacturing and contributed to rising inequality. Somewhat paradoxically, the consensus amongst empirical...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Global Entrepreneurship Drives Sushi Success In Canada
May 2010
A global mindset allows global leaders to connect the dots between markets and to recognize gaps that may exist in one region but not another. Global entrepreneurship is the ability to convert...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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The Innovator's DNA
Jan 2010
A major new study involving some 3,500 executives has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop. The six-year-long research into disruptive innovation...
Provided by INSEAD
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Thunderbird, Fulbright And Entrepreneurship: A Powerful Combination
Apr 2010
A project to improve education in Mexico received the attention of scholars from all over the world March 26-29, 2010, when the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Tolerance Of Ambiguity And Entrepreneurial Innovation
Jun 2008
The paper builds a general equilibrium model of occupation choice, where the risks inherent in a technology embodying a new innovation are only vaguely known (ambiguous), whereas the old...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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The Interaction Between Personality, Social Network Position And Involvement In The Innovation Process
Oct 2009
This dissertation proposal investigates how personality and individuals' social network position affect individuals' involvement into the innovation process. It posits that people would feel...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Cost Innovation And The Dragons
Jan 2010
Cost innovation' sounds like an oxymoron. Most of ones associate innovation with greater functionality and sophistication. Mainland Chinese companies, however, are turning conventional business...
Provided by INSEAD
