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Showing papers in "Technovation in 2008"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for identifying best practice incubator models and for more rigorous evaluations of incubator performance based on three distinguishing model components: selection, business support and mediation.

731 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define organizational learning capability through five dimensions or mechanisms: experimentation, risk taking, interaction with the external environment, dialogue and participative decision making, and analyze the impact of these mechanisms on product innovation performance.

656 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, an item-oriented typology of organizational innovations is proposed as a precondition for a common understanding of organizational concepts and the implementation of innovative organizational concepts is considered to be highly important for a company's competitiveness, although there has been little research on possible approaches to measure and monitor organizational innovations in large-scale surveys.

594 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that firms need to have a sufficient degree of internationalization to capture successfully the fruits of innovation, i.e., be active in many markets, to capture the benefits of innovation.

505 citations


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TL;DR: Based on the technology diffusion theory and the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, this paper developed a research model to study the determinants of e-business diffusion.

389 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the longitudinal use of the unique resources of the USI by HTBFs at different lifecycle stages, and find that a HTBF's propensity to make effective use of its resources and support increases as the lifecycle stage of the company increases and the small-firm searches for independence and autonomy.

351 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors established the constructs of knowledge inertia and examined the relationships between knowledge inertia, organizational learning and organizational innovation and found that knowledge inertia exerts a mediating effect on organizational innovation through organizational learning.

350 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of innovation on the performance of US business service firms and found that the presence of service innovation and its extent has a consistently positive effect on growth, but no effect on productivity.

332 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the different perspectives on innovation held by the considered stakeholders, highlighting the points of major contrast together with similarities in order to provide new insights into the problem.

314 citations


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TL;DR: The results showed that topological measures are beneficial in detecting branching innovation in the citation network of scientific publications.

293 citations


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TL;DR: The analytical results indicated that the non-additive fuzzy integral is an effective, simple and suitable method for identifying the primary criteria influencing TICs at hi-tech firms, especially when evaluation criteria are interactive and interdependent.

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TL;DR: In this article, a resource-based framework was developed to examine the determinants for the choice of partners among firms that cooperate in R&D. This framework was used to predict the relative efficiency of cooperation with different types of partners in innovation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insights into the emergence, embedding and optimal design of intermediaries who act as a bridge between demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure, using a case-study approach, focusing on the relationships between a for-profit intermediary organisation in The Netherlands and several parties for which it performs various bridging functions.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the degree of novelty of innovation in established small and medium manufacturing firms by using as dependent variables both innovation and novelty, and found that various types of learning impact on the presence and absence of innovation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effectiveness of total quality management (TQM) practices in R&D environments is examined by demonstrating the effect of TQM practices on the performance in terms of product quality and product innovation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the Canadian support structure at federal level that aims to support the commercialization of publicly funded research is presented, where two types of programs can be identified: structural reforms within the university sector and programs providing support to specific commercialization projects.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors provided a theoretical discussion of spin-off formation in a developing and transforming economy, and presented results from a comparative study based on data from 82 interviews with spinoff enterprises in three metropolitan regions in China.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the impact of TQM on innovation in the Portuguese footwear industry and find that the impact depends both on the specific quality management elements under consideration and on the type of innovation.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a perspective of critical issues for e-readiness assessment in SMEs based on macro models in a developing country, which will help the managers in developing countries to consider the critical issues of their organization in an effective way.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and tested a model of alliance-driven corporate technological entrepreneurship activities that impact on organisational performance, and the model was tested on 226 usable responses from mail survey data from a sample of manufacturing firms from Slovenia.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the advantages and deficiencies of sector-specialized business incubators (SBIs) and addressed them with empirical observations from an SBI in the city of Halle (Germany), which has an explicit sector-focus on the media industry.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the organization called Precarn, a collaborative, which manages a program of triple helix projects, is used to illustrate how an intermediate organization can help triple-helix partnerships towards the successful commercialization of new technologies.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that exploration networks face a trade-off between diversity and selection, and that depending on the type of exploration task, exploration networks need to make a combination of density and tie strength in such a way that diversification and selection are aligned.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the role of post-project reviews and their impact on the success of future projects, improvement of the overall performance of the organization and its long-term competitive position, and development of its learning processes.

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TL;DR: Results obtained show that, in contrast to other studies which analyse employee behaviour, the analysis of the perceptions of the company decision-maker increases the explanatory power (R2=0.95), thereby avoiding some of the weaknesses inherent in this model.

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TL;DR: In this article, a research that evaluated the product development methodologies used in Brazilian small and medium-sized metal-mechanic enterprises (SMEs), in a specific region of Sao Paulo, was presented.

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TL;DR: This article examined the pattern of international collaboration across countries in inventive activities using the information about inventors and assignees as defined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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TL;DR: Based on four in-depth cases studies set in China's mobile phone industry, the authors hypothesize a complementary stage in Kim's model, and those stages can be traversed concurrently.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the number of dynamic capabilities of SMEs and partnership success and the impact of formal and informal safeguards on this relationship, and found that SME's strategic and internal capabilities are negatively associated with partnership success, whereas external capabilities are positively related.

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TL;DR: In this paper, mathematical approaches supplementing multi-criteria models are suggested for measuring the threshold effect and synergy between innovation practices and verify their validity, which is a major theoretical problem in the field of innovation measurement.