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Activities carried out in Research Organizations (ROs), as in other organizations, becomes more oriented to efficient use of limited resources by transforming them into high quality R&D products. Traditional methods for performance assessment cannot be applied to ROs successfully as they differ from business enterprises in their different nature, work content, specificity and multi-dimensionality...
Inventions have long been recognized as key driver for wealth creation of nations. As intellectual property (IP) rights are costly and difficult to acquire and enforce, it is often argued that SMEs are disadvantaged in their ability to utilize IP rights. Against the background of the patent upsurge, we first conduct a literature review of the role of patenting and alternative instruments to protect...
When assessing Research and development (R&D) activity on organizational level, it is extremely important to select the most suitable and accurate indicators for a valid evaluation of activity efficiency, productivity or effectiveness. It is the case that R&D activity differs from a regular activity of a business company by the nature and value of the output as well as the specificity of the...
This paper aims at increasing the understanding of various dimensions and patterns of industrial maintenance innovations on the basis of analyzing the state of the art in the current literature and empirical observations from the conducted case studies. The results show that maintenance innovation studies as a part of industrial service business research have emerged and the nature of reported types...
The interest towards solutions related to the management and analysis of disturbances in supply chains has increased, which has led to a pressure among technology and service providers to develop comprehensive business models to response customer needs. The aim of the study is to clarify the value elements of a business model for disturbance management and analysis in supply chains. Regarding to the...
Logistic-intensive companies face a number of transport disturbances every year, which can have significant effects on their operations and cause unnecessary costs. Although these problems are familiar to many companies, the development of practices for managing and analyzing disturbances is still at an early stage. In the future, the growing importance of non-interference and the hard competition...
The changing university environment have meant a substantial rise in the rate of commercialization of university-based technologies. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of technology transfer process as perceived by different stakeholders in the innovation lifecycle. Data is collected using semi-structured interviews with inventors, technology transfer personnel, patent attorneys, consultants...
Recent years have increased the number of studies focusing on development and co-production of industrial services together with partners. The complexity of managing industrial services (e.g. maintenance) also causes crucial managerial needs; e.g. how to find the focal areas that should be paid attention to in order to find solutions for developing the collaboration between service provider and client...
Creating a successful service offering for a physical product and implementing the services require extensive information exchange across the boundaries of the service provider and client organisations. A change from a transaction-to-relationship-based service model calls for new capabilities from the product manufacturer. This change, however, also offers new possibilities for the utilisation of...
This paper aims to examine the impact of the various stages of managing knowledge - knowledge acquisition, dissemination and utilization - on the innovativeness of Technology and Engineering Consultancies (TEC) in Singapore, by drawing on results from questionnaires mailed to 446 TEC firms. According to the findings, knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization have a positive impact on the innovativeness...
This study focuses on the technical engineering and consulting business which is a significant sub-sector of technology-related knowledge-intensive business services. The objective of the study is to explore the cross-border acquisitions - purchases and sales - of Finnish engineering consulting firms during the past decade 1997- 2006 in terms of the amount of transactions and the geographical distribution...
The decisions made by politicians and companies, as well as the direction of research activities have a significant influence on the future development of the biofuel market. Therefore, it is essential for the decision makers to recognize the main driving forces, future opportunities and possible threats affecting the market, as well as the potential methods to support strategic long-term decisions...
This study deals with challenges related to the management and measurement of innovativeness. The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to address this issue from the managerial point of view in knowledge-based firms. The study presents the first part of a larger project, and in this first part the performance drivers, i.e. the main factors enhancing innovativeness, are clarified with the...
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