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Turning An Idea Into A Business
Jun 2010
Groupon is a website that features a unique coupon every day. However, the deal becomes valid only if a minimum number of people purchase the "Groupon." Andrew Mason, founder & CEO of Groupon,...
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"Stay On The Curve, Die On The Curve"
Feb 2010
Guy Kawasaki, founder of alltop.com, discusses how too many companies define themselves by what they do, thus remaining on the same "Curve," and stifling innovation. In this webcast, he uses real...
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"Stop Making Mission Statements"
Jan 2010
Guy Kawasaki, founder of alltop.com, contrasts traditional mission statements with 2-3 word mantras that embody the products and culture of a business. He explains that while mission statements...
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Branson On Business: Advice To Entrepreneurs
Apr 2009
Richard Branson offers advice to entrepreneurs on getting through troubled times - and it's the same advice for getting through good times.
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Branson On Business: Is The Virgin Way The Way?
Apr 2009
From flying across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, to taking on Coca-Cola, some of Richard Branson's decisions might come across as "Counter-intuitive," says Seth Godin. Richard Branson responds.
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Branson On Business: Protecting Your Ideas
Apr 2009
Richard Branson offers a key piece of advice for how to protect your ideas and make money "In a world where everything spreads."
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Learning From The Pros: Steven Tanger
Aug 2010
The name "Tanger" has become synonymous with outlet shopping since the company opened its first center in 1981. CEO Steven Tanger has kept his family's entrepreneurial spirit alive and well almost...
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Listen And Learn
Apr 2010
"The best work is when you don't have a clue" says Barry Diller, CEO of IAC. Barry talks with Seth Godin about how trial and error in business can lead to the freshest work. According to Barry,...
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DvF's Recipe For Success
Apr 2010
It's always about the product" says Barry Diller, CEO of IAC. Sitting with his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Founder of DVF Studio LP, Barry discusses the fusion of a great person with a great...
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Better Your Business: Phil Town & Jerry?
May 2010
Phil Town, investment advisor and author of "Payback Time: Making Big Money Is the Best Revenge!" and Jerry Silberman, founder and CEO of Corporate Turnaround, provide some tips to help you better...
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Men & Women In Business
May 2010
Mike Michalowicz, founder of Obsidian Launch and author of "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur," discusses some lessons male entrepreneurs can learn from their female counterparts.
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Coming Up With A Business Idea
Jul 2010
Go Try It On is a website where people get advice on their outfits after uploading a picture for others on the site to see. Founder & CEO Marissa Evans says she got the idea for her business from...
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Pitch Passion
Apr 2010
The selling of ideas can sometimes be as simple as getting someone to believe in your intangible concept and invest in it says Barry Diller, CEO of IAC. He feels that business owners who might not...
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Stories From CES: H20 Audio
Jun 2009
Kristian Rauhala has a passion for music - and for water. By combining the two into a business, he's now doing what he loves to do. For him, it's not only about the right idea, but also the right...
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Network To Innovate
Jun 2009
Brand Management consultant Isha Edwards believes that business owners need to get over their fear of networking in order to fully succeed.
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5 Famous Innovation Oversights - And What We Can Learn From Them
Jun 2010
In the never-ending quest for innovation, companies of all sizes focus their combined knowledge and experience on generating big ideas that could translate into competitive advantage....
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The Three Types Of Business Owners - Which Type Are You?
Feb 2010
People who understand that there are no "three easy steps" to anything big - the same ones who know that what gives you a name in the world or puts you at the head of your class is true mastery...
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Are You A Serial Entrepreneur Or Mission-Driven?
Dec 2009
Some people just love coming up with a new idea and pursuing it from scratch. As one knows the type. These classic entrepreneurs love to sit back and recall their "many companies." Failed attempts...
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Broadcast Your Ideas Broadly!
Feb 2008
The philosophy to "Share ideas liberally" defies the age-old instinct to keep ideas secret. However, emerging businesses are likely to benefit more from sharing ideas than from withholding them....
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Hybrids - A New Form Of Innovation
Aug 2010
More and more variety is available in products and services these days. How does anyone come up with something really new? Once in a while a totally new idea shows up. The Apple iPhone with its...
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Innovation! Don't Stress Me But Tell Me What Kind You Need!
Aug 2010
Everyone needs and craves innovation, yet the more we chase it, the more elusive discovering the next "It" or "Thing" seems to be. Most of us have cut all the costs we can and are already working...
Provided by American Express
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Reaching For The Skies
Aug 2010
If you decide to tackle an engineering challenge or to venture into the scientific unknown as an entrepreneur, you're embarking on a real adventure - difficult, fascinating, often risky. Sometimes...
Provided by American Express
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The Antidote For Commoditization
Aug 2010
Industrial products had a bit different problem, since many of the suppliers and the customers were somewhat more interdependent. Still, some very large companies with big global purchasing power...
Provided by American Express
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Ads That Follow You Across The Internet - A Twist On An Old Idea
Jun 2010
Sometimes the most interesting innovations come from the simplest ideas. Look for innovation in the simplest ways and smallest things. At its core, retargeting is nothing more than serving up...
Provided by American Express
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Innovating The Wrong Way...With Counterfeit Software
Dec 2009
Oh those crafty software criminals. They're such "Innovators." Never ones to rest on their laurels, they keep coming up with new products. Last year's releases of counterfeit software are not...
Provided by American Express
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The Melting Pot Bubbles With Innovative Business Ideas
Oct 2009
The USA is the great melting pot of people from many cultures - and it is that melting pot factor that helps drive the innovation taking place today. Immigrants have helped drive the innovation in...
Provided by American Express
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Twitter: 3 Things That Are Not So Hot
Nov 2009
Like many shiny new technologies, Twitter hit the radar screen of small businesses in the past year with hyped-up expectations, much experimentation, some wins and some disappointments. Marketers...
Provided by American Express
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Three Enemies Of Innovation
Mar 2010
Everybody seems to agree that innovation is a good idea. Nearly everyone also agrees that innovation is the best path to growth, profit and market dominance. Anyone who would dispute those...
Provided by American Express
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Inventions: Solutions In Search Of Problems
Feb 2010
A worse situation is where an inventor's submission sneaks through the "Rejection of unsolicited submissions" process and someone looks at it, or even more commonly, the company independently...
Provided by American Express
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What I Learned From The Food Channel About Developing A Niche
Oct 2009
The Food Network is masterful at defining the "Niche." If you do not watch the Food Channel on cable TV, you might be tempted to think, 'Cooking is cooking - how boring to have cooking shows 24/7....
Provided by American Express
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I Need That! - Music To Innovators' Ears
Jan 2010
When someone "Wants" something, they consider comparative "Wants" - this choice versus that. But when they believe, and say, they "Need it." Rational or not, they are "Hooked." In this case, price...
Provided by American Express
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Chugging Along On The Innovation Train
Jan 2010
For the last five years it's been "Innovation this" and "Innovation that" as marketers and CEOs scramble to get a spot on the innovation train. Reminds me of those good old days of the latter 20th...
Provided by American Express
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Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Sep 2009
It is invigorating to accomplish a huge project. When we sit down with a blank canvas or clean sheet of paper, we have the tendency to think big. We tend to ask ourselves, "What can I think of...
Provided by American Express
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5 Tips For Productive Brainstorming
Aug 2009
The now over-the-hill catchphrase "think outside the box" associated the act of brainstorming with the idea of being free from any sort of structure. If we could just open up our minds to a "blue...
Provided by American Express
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The Whole Business Brain
Jul 2009
As innovation and creativity become increasingly important in business, how creativity works - and who holds the keys to it - is a hot topic. In his book Group Genius, psychologist Keith Sawyer...
Provided by American Express
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Questions All Young Entrepreneurs Should Ask
Jun 2009
As you approach your ideas as an entrepreneur, you'll want to ask yourself three questions: With each venture, are you getting closer to your true interests and potential? Of course, statistically...
Provided by American Express
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3 Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves
Jun 2009
We all have a responsibility to make our projects sustainable. Whether we work in large corporations or on our own, when it comes to leading ideas, we are entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur is...
Provided by American Express
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A Conversation With Seth Sternberg
Nov 2009
Can you start a business without a traditional marketing plan? Seth Sternberg founded Meebo with the help of two technology bloggers. In this webcast, Sternberg offers up new-age advice for anyone...
Provided by American Express
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IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network.
Aug 2010
One of the key challenges facing the utilities industry is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. While...
Provided by IBM
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Remaining Innovative Through Good And Bad Times
Jan 2010
Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing and Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship discusses why managers need to focus on the future in order to help an organisation remain innovative...
Provided by London Business School
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In Defense Of Much, But Not All, Financial Innovation
Feb 2010
After decades of being celebrated as one of the hallmarks and virtues of American-style capitalism, "Financial innovation" has come onto hard times. Soon after the financial crisis began in 2007...
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The Rules Of The Road Or Roadblocks On The Information Highway? Regulation And Innovation In Telecommunications
Apr 2008
Regulatory policy in telecommunications must balance short-term efficiency (low prices) against the firms' incentives to innovate, which have longer reaching impacts on economic welfare....
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Determinants Of Entrepreneurial Activities In China
Nov 2007
The institutional environment - including protection of private properties and contract enforcement - has been rather unfavorable for the emergence and development of China's private enterprises....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Institutional Sources Of Innovation In Korean And UK Online Gaming Firms
Oct 2009
This paper examines the institutional sources of innovation, with reference to the role of institutions in generating creativity within knowledge-intensive entertainment industry. Despite growing...
Provided by University of Reading
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Does The Support Of Innovative Clusters Sustainably Foster R&D Activity? Evidence From The German Bioregio And Bioprofile Contests
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors evaluate the R&D enhancing effects of two large public grant schemes aiming at encouraging the performance of firms organized in clusters. These are Germany's well known...
Provided by Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
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Succession In Private Firms As An Entrepreneurial Process - A Review And Suggestions Of New Research AvenuesV
Sep 2010
In considering firm succession as the acts of both entrepreneurial exit and entry, this paper adds to work that seeks to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. The authors...
Provided by University of Udine
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Using Self-Employment As Proxy For Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Jun 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for "Entrepreneurship" in empirical studies....
Provided by Linköping University
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Advanced Purchasing, Spillovers, Innovative Pricing And Serendipitous Discovery
May 2008
Advanced products such as aircraft distinguish themselves by a number of characteristics. Products are complicated and produced under very complicated circumstances, but also have a very long...
Provided by Ratio
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Methodological Innovations In Collecting Spending Data: The HRS Consumption And Activities Mail Survey
Nov 2008
It has traditionally been believed that collecting survey measures of total spending necessarily involved asking a large number of questions, too many for inclusion of a comprehensive spending...
Provided by RAND
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Assessing Human And Technological Dimensions In Virtual Team's Operational Competences
Jan 2008
Cognitive task automation may lead to over trust, complacency and loss of the necessary work environment situation awareness. This is a major constraint in complex work organizations teamwork,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Political Entrepreneurship And Institutional Change: An Evolutionary Approach
Apr 2008
The paper is a contribution to the theory of institutional change. Using a process-based, evolutionary framework, a comparative analysis of economic and political entrepreneurship is provided and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Trying To Be Entrepreneurial
May 2008
If we are to understand how entrepreneurial intentions evolve, we must embrace theories reflecting the inherent dynamics of human decision making. While the dominant model of entrepreneurial...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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How Do Firing Costs Affect Innovation And Growth When Workers Ability Is Unknown? ? Employment Protection As A Burden On A Firms Screening Process
Nov 2008
This paper analyzes the implication of employment protection legislation on a firm's screening process. The authors present a model in which human-capital-intensive firms (high-tech) with...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Cooperation Networks And Innovation: A Complex System Perspective To The Analysis And Evaluation Of A EU Regional Innovation Policy Programme
Aug 2008
Recent developments in innovation theory and policy have led policymakers to assign particular importance to supporting networks of cooperation among heterogeneous economic actors, especially in...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Emergent Innovation And Sustainable Knowledge Co-Creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach To "Innovation From Within"
Aug 2008
Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Innovation And Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The Impact Of University-Industry Cooperation In Ecuador
Sep 2008
One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Entrepreneurship Spillover And The Determinants Of Key Sectors For New Business Creation: An Inter-Sectorial Approach
Sep 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge filter among new firms and industries (Acts, et al., 2005; Audrescht, 2007),...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Amateur Content Production, Networked Innovation And Innovation Policy
Jan 2009
The central common feature of a number of recent technological developments (collectively referred to as Web 2.0) is collaborative production of content on an amateur basis, that is, for motives...
Provided by University of Queensland
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The Impact Of Technological Regimes On Patterns Of Sustained And Sporadic Innovation Activities In UK Industries
Feb 2010
This paper brings together ideas about technological regimes and looks at their influence on patterns of sustained or persistent innovation across UK manufacturing and services industries using...
Provided by University of London
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Geographic Clustering And Network Evolution Of Innovative Activities: Evidence From China~s Patents
Feb 2010
This paper examines the spatial distribution and social structure of processes of learning and knowledge creation within the context of the inventor network connecting Chinese patent teams....
Provided by University of London
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Toward Behavioural Innovation Economics - Heuristics And Biases In Choice Under Novelty
Nov 2008
A framework for 'Behavioural innovation economics' is proposed here as a synthesis of behavioural economics and innovation economics in the specific context of choice under novelty. The authors...
Provided by University of Queensland
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Product Innovation And Imitation In A Duopoly With Differentiation By Attributes
Apr 2011
This paper considers a probabilistic duopoly in which products are described by their specific attributes, this form of differentiation embodying the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Consumers...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Competition, R&D And The Cost Of Innovation
Apr 2011
This paper proposes a model in the spirit of Aghion et al. (2005) that relates the magnitude of the impact of competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Patent Office In Innovation Policy: Nobody~s Perfect
Apr 2011
The number of patent applications and "Bad" patents issued has been rising rapidly in recent years. Based on this trend, the authors study the overload problem within the Patent Office and its...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Science, Technology And Innovation For Economic Growth: Linking Policy Research And Practice In "Stig Systems"
Dec 2008
This paper reflects on the relevance of "Systems-theoretic" approaches to the interdependent policy issues relating to the dynamics of science, technology and innovation and their relationship to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Firm Dynamic Governance Of Global Innovation By Means Of Flexible Networks Of Connections
Jan 2009
One of the most important trends in industrial organization of the past quarter century has been the growth of interfirm alliances. These alliances are formed today with considerable ease across...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Innovation ? Source To Obtain The Competitive Advantage In The Global Economy
Jan 2009
A strong motivation to replace the comparative advantage theory with the competitive advantage theory is given by the significant change of the present economic conditions comparing with the old...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Proximity And Innovation In Italian SMEs
Feb 2009
In this paper the authors assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian SMEs' propensity to innovate. In doing so a Knowledge Production Function...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Origins Of American Industrial Success: Evidence From The US Portland Cement Industry
Feb 2009
The contributions of innovations, factor endowments and institutions to American industrialization are examined through analysing the rise of the American Portland cement industry. Minerals...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Technological Diffusion And Dynamic Gains From Trade
Mar 2009
The authors consider a technologically backward country and analyse the implications on competitiveness and long-run growth of the quality content of traded goods. They build an endogenous growth...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Learning Entrepreneurship In A Multicultural Context
Jun 2009
Nowadays learning entrepreneurship in higher education became an important issue. International experiences promote the relationship between students from several countries in a multicultural...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Entrepreneurship Propelling Economic Changes In China
Mar 2010
The most important aspect of the Chinese economy today is its rapid changes. The changes are propelled by the Chinese entrepreneurs. This paper is an attempt to understand who the entrepreneurs...
Provided by Princeton University
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Innovation And Economic Growth: What Is The Actual Importance Of R&D?
Nov 2007
This paper deals with the relationship between innovation and economic growth in the context of developed world. After examining the correlation between economic growth and R&D (Research and...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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What Drives Innovation?: Inferences From An Industry-Wide Survey In Nigeria
Sep 2010
This paper seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to identify the significant factors that explain the capability of firms in Nigeria...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Innovation And The Competitiveness Of Industries: Comparing The Mainstream And The Evolutionary Approaches
Dec 2010
The paper of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. The huge economics literature...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Recent Trends In The Economics Of Innovation Literature Through The Lens Of Industrial And Corporate Change
Dec 2010
Paper on the economics of innovation has been in constant change. The authors quantitatively assess recent trends in this literature in terms of research topics and types of research. Departing...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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The Level Of Human Capital In Innovative Firms Located In China. Is Foreign Capital Relevant?
Nov 2010
Studies on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the Chinese economy have essentially focused on the relationship between FDI, productivity and economic growth, revealing a tendency...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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Is Human Capital Relevant In Attracting Innovative FDI To China?
Oct 2010
The impact of human capital on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been assessed in an essentially descriptive manner. In general, most quantitative studies focus on the macroeconomic level, that...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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The Determinants Of Technology Transfer Efficiency And The Role Of Innovation Policies: A Survey
May 2010
The diversity found in the various Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), besides being a consequence of the capacities and motives of the different stakeholders involved (public research...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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A Growth Model For The Quadruple Helix Innovation Theory
Apr 2010
The authors propose a theoretical growth model with which to frame analytically the Quadruple Helix Innovation Theory (QHIT). The aim is to emphasise the investment in innovation transmission...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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Innovation! Don't Stress Me But Tell Me What Kind You Need!
Aug 2010
Everyone needs and craves innovation, yet the more we chase it, the more elusive discovering the next "It" or "Thing" seems to be. Most of us have cut all the costs we can and are already working...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Reaching For The Skies
Aug 2010
If you decide to tackle an engineering challenge or to venture into the scientific unknown as an entrepreneur, you're embarking on a real adventure - difficult, fascinating, often risky. Sometimes...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Antidote For Commoditization
Aug 2010
Industrial products had a bit different problem, since many of the suppliers and the customers were somewhat more interdependent. Still, some very large companies with big global purchasing power...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Ads That Follow You Across The Internet - A Twist On An Old Idea
Jun 2010
Sometimes the most interesting innovations come from the simplest ideas. Look for innovation in the simplest ways and smallest things. At its core, retargeting is nothing more than serving up...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Innovating The Wrong Way...With Counterfeit Software
Dec 2009
Oh those crafty software criminals. They're such "Innovators." Never ones to rest on their laurels, they keep coming up with new products. Last year's releases of counterfeit software are not...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Melting Pot Bubbles With Innovative Business Ideas
Oct 2009
The USA is the great melting pot of people from many cultures - and it is that melting pot factor that helps drive the innovation taking place today. Immigrants have helped drive the innovation in...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Twitter: 3 Things That Are Not So Hot
Nov 2009
Like many shiny new technologies, Twitter hit the radar screen of small businesses in the past year with hyped-up expectations, much experimentation, some wins and some disappointments. Marketers...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Three Enemies Of Innovation
Mar 2010
Everybody seems to agree that innovation is a good idea. Nearly everyone also agrees that innovation is the best path to growth, profit and market dominance. Anyone who would dispute those...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Inventions: Solutions In Search Of Problems
Feb 2010
A worse situation is where an inventor's submission sneaks through the "Rejection of unsolicited submissions" process and someone looks at it, or even more commonly, the company independently...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
What I Learned From The Food Channel About Developing A Niche
Oct 2009
The Food Network is masterful at defining the "Niche." If you do not watch the Food Channel on cable TV, you might be tempted to think, 'Cooking is cooking - how boring to have cooking shows 24/7....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
I Need That! - Music To Innovators' Ears
Jan 2010
When someone "Wants" something, they consider comparative "Wants" - this choice versus that. But when they believe, and say, they "Need it." Rational or not, they are "Hooked." In this case, price...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Chugging Along On The Innovation Train
Jan 2010
For the last five years it's been "Innovation this" and "Innovation that" as marketers and CEOs scramble to get a spot on the innovation train. Reminds me of those good old days of the latter 20th...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Sep 2009
It is invigorating to accomplish a huge project. When we sit down with a blank canvas or clean sheet of paper, we have the tendency to think big. We tend to ask ourselves, "What can I think of...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Tips For Productive Brainstorming
Aug 2009
The now over-the-hill catchphrase "think outside the box" associated the act of brainstorming with the idea of being free from any sort of structure. If we could just open up our minds to a "blue...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Whole Business Brain
Jul 2009
As innovation and creativity become increasingly important in business, how creativity works - and who holds the keys to it - is a hot topic. In his book Group Genius, psychologist Keith Sawyer...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Questions All Young Entrepreneurs Should Ask
Jun 2009
As you approach your ideas as an entrepreneur, you'll want to ask yourself three questions: With each venture, are you getting closer to your true interests and potential? Of course, statistically...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
3 Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves
Jun 2009
We all have a responsibility to make our projects sustainable. Whether we work in large corporations or on our own, when it comes to leading ideas, we are entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur is...
Provided by American Express
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A Conversation With Seth Sternberg
Nov 2009
Can you start a business without a traditional marketing plan? Seth Sternberg founded Meebo with the help of two technology bloggers. In this webcast, Sternberg offers up new-age advice for anyone...
Provided by American Express
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Whitepapers
IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network.
Aug 2010
One of the key challenges facing the utilities industry is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. While...
Provided by IBM
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Remaining Innovative Through Good And Bad Times
Jan 2010
Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing and Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship discusses why managers need to focus on the future in order to help an organisation remain innovative...
Provided by London Business School
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Can Innovation Be Incentivized?
Jan 2010
Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing, Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship; discusses whether innovation should be incentivized and explains why asymmetric incentives (rewards for...
Provided by London Business School
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Emerging Markets And The Upturn
Jan 2010
Emerging markets can represent tremendous opportunities for firms to emerge from the downturn. Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship talks about how some of the most...
Provided by London Business School
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Creating 'Hot Spots' On Innovation Within Your Organisation
Jan 2010
Professor Lynda Gratton explains what you as an individual and your company can do to help create 'Hot Spots' of innovation and energy within your organisation.
Provided by London Business School
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Realising Business Performance Through IT
Jan 2010
Peter Hinssen helps business people unlock the potential of IT and develop a technology strategy that will help create more innovation in their organisations as well as guide them in managing and...
Provided by London Business School
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Lynda Gratton - Hot Spots
Jan 2010
What you as an individual and your company can do to help create 'Hot Spots' of innovation and energy within your organisation...
Provided by London Business School
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Nation, Culture, Geography: Impact On Innovation
Nov 2009
In this interview, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Jeffrey Furman disscusses his work on how innovation is impacted (or not) by nation, culture and geography.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Nano-Technology: Jumping The Valley Of Death
Feb 2009
Here, Stine Grodal, Boston University School of Management Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, discusses new innovations in the nano-tech field, the role that government and science...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Smart Grid As A Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, And Systems Challenges In The Clean Energy Market
Nov 2009
Webcast from the event "Smart Grid as a Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, and Systems Challenges in the Clean Energy Market," hosted by Boston University School of Management at the Time...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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The Transparency Tipping Point: Business Trends, Care Implications, And Innovation In The Health Sector
Jul 2008
At the "Transparency in the Health Sector: Business Trends and Care Implications" conference on April 20, 2008, Mark Allan, Faculty Director of the Health Sector Management Program at Boston...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Wilson Tool International - CRM Business Transformation Study
Sep 2010
Take a look at how this leading producer of tooling systems for sheet metal manufacturers positioned itself for growth with e-commerce solutions from SAP. Besides improving customer service and...
Provided by SAP
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Enhancing Constituent Perceptions with CRM for Public Sector
Sep 2010
Explore current thinking among public sector organizations about how to enhance not only efficiency and services but constituents' perceptions of the value delivered. Innovative CRM processes,...
Provided by SAP
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IBM CloudBurst Technical Demo
Sep 2010
IBM CloudBurst is a range of integrated cloud infrastructure solutions to help automate your cloud provisioning and administrative tasks. Watch this video to see how easy it is to provision...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Brand Secrets They Don't Teach In Business School
Aug 2010
A lot of people ask the author (Founder of the Virgin Group) about the Virgin brand - what's their secret? What's the enduring magic formula? The truth is, they started with a really simple idea...
Provided by American Express
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Whitepapers
AIIM Capture Industry Watch 2012
Sep 2012
For centuries, paper has been the communication medium of business. We use it to collect data, to carry signatures, to drive the business process, and to provide an auditable record of outcomes....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality and Cost Metrics
Sep 2010
This TSIA white paper explores 3 fundamental metrics - operational, quality and cost - that you should include in your services dashboard, outlines specific measurements to track in each area and...
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
Five ways to persuade your target audiences
Sep 2010
In today's connected world, a well managed Web presence is essential for any organization to achieve business success. The internet provides unprecedented opportunities for border-free...
Provided by Tridion B.V.
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White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Enterprise Performance Management Innovations
Apr 2010
The recession of the past two years has been challenging for all companies and organizations globally. The reduction in demand, and uncertainty it presented, caused many organizations to resort to...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
IT's Role in Strategic Planning Key To Success
Sep 2010
It's no surprise that finance and IT executives' views differ on their roles in the planning process. New research from IDG Research Services, CFO Research Services and Oracle suggests that both...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Is Your Enterprise Architecture Stifling Innovation?
Sep 2010
IT organizations are under attack right now. But people don't know it or are afraid to admit it. They probably don't think of the IT organization as having "competition." after all, the...
Provided by CastlePointe
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Webcasts
Booming Business: A Sublime Idea
Jul 2010
The next time you have a crazy business idea over a beer, you should think of Matt Moman. Find out how fake limes, Corona beer and a little inspiration turned this entrepreneur's dream into a...
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