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This article details a proposed platform for the selection and clas-sification of Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) pro-jects, in the context of the Energy Industry in Brazil, considering gains in terms of intangible assets for a given company. For this, the platform consists of a model structured in two parts. The first part (Part I) identifies the project's contribution estimated for...
This paper presents the outcome of a preliminary investigation into the use of mobile apps as a dynamic capability tool by start-up entrepreneurs. 19 business start-ups in Lagos Nigeria were involved in this study, with average enterprise age of 11.5 months in service industry. After strategic use of customized mobile app for 12 weeks, it was observed that average profit, customer-base and staffing...
Country level militarization is negatively related to commercial product innovation by new technology ventures. Using multilevel mixed effects logistic regression modeling, I find that country militarization is a significant predictor of firm innovation in high technology industries like robotics. These findings contribute to the entrepreneurial innovation literature by specifically focusing upon...
With the advent of globalization and the knowledge-based economy, industrial SMEs must constantly innovate to remain competitive. Now, an important research issue in this regard concerns the role played by IT capabilities in enabling innovation processes such as new product development, and in determining the product innovation performance of these organizations. Using a configurational approach grounded...
The term "Smart Product" has become commonly used in recent years. This is because there has been an increasing interest in these kinds of products as part of the consumer goods industry, impacting everyday life and industry. Nevertheless, the term "Smart Product" is used with different meanings in different contexts and application domains. The use of the term "Smart Product"...
Innovation is critical to our economic and social prosperity. We rely on industry, university, and government employees to develop, modify, and implement innovative ideas while navigating ambiguous problem contexts, overcoming setbacks, and persisting in competition with courses of action. Research has shown that self-efficacy, or an individual's belief in their ability, influences the pursuit of...
Firms may no longer rely only on internally generated innovation within today's context of globalization, industry convergence, and rapid technology change. Built on managerial interpretation of external environment and innovation search literature, this paper suggests that managers interpreting external environment as higher levels of dynamism tend to proceed more with nonlocal supply-side and exploratory...
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