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In the context of competitive economy innovation is a key strategic imperative for any organization. Successful technological, marketing, and organizational innovations result in a sustainable competitive advantage and lead to better financial results. As it stands, the organizational innovation is considered to be a vehicle for technological and market development. It is, in turns, driven by the...
Most often, if a new product is complex, a unique company doesn't have all the competences or means to achieve alone its development. In this case alliances must be formed to carry on the development project. However, alliances often meet difficulties in achieving their objectives. That is mainly due to difficulties of communication between partners, or to missing skills or means required to go further...
This paper examines biomedical traceability and its importance for improving development, production, and use of drugs and medical devices. Biomedical traceability means that the flow of material and information within a biomedical product value chain can be followed from raw materials to patient outcomes. This paper uses data from a survey of biomedical manufacturing companies to show the gaps in...
The relation between M&A and innovation has received a lot of attention from both academia and practice. The existing studies show that M&A can improve the level of innovation and that the level of innovation before M&A can increase the likelihood of a company to participate in M&As. Since acquiring companies (larger companies) and target companies (small companies) have different...
Network Neutrality is essential for ensuring a level playing field for the development of new applications and services on the Internet. Laws and rules alone might not be enough to protect innovation, fair competition and consumer's freedom of choice online. The research community has the responsibility to propose solutions that reveal discriminatory traffic management mechanisms on the Internet....
The economic impact of the innovative process has been extensively studied by numerous researchers and specialists because innovation is a fundamental element of the economic and social progress and it is the tool to address today's global challenges in multiple fields, and at the level of organizations is one of the key factors that ensure the increase of their productivity, efficiency and effectiveness...
Innovation processes and methods have taken center stage in many organizations as companies begin to evaluate new ways to deliver growth and maintain a competitive edge. Specifically, the proliferation of methods originating in software development (agile) and product development (design thinking) put pressure on organizations to dedicate resources to apply these methods, irrespective of industry...
Start-Up formation and execution can be a daunting proposition for a technologist. The uncertainty and number of unknowns translate into substantial risk, which can discourage an engineer from even starting a company. One approach to address that risk is through instruction; by understanding the path through the start-up process, the variability is decreased and confidence can be cultivated. Although...
In this paper, we identify 37 companies that produce nano-enabled products in Argentina. We locate the products of these firms in terms of both their economic sector and position in a value chain. The research was done through a four-step methodology. Firstly, an inventory of firms was created. Secondly, the firms were classified by their economic sector, following the United Nations economic classification...
This paper reviews ballast water treatment systems regarding functional and operational problems. Ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) could be in failure or under repair. New invented sensors based on flow measurement methodologies should report malfunctions utilizing satellites. This invention is the solution concerning the quality control of ship's ballast water, and this is the system which...
This research is to make and realize an idea for computerized innovation, the idea integrating surveying patent information, reappearing problem and discovering breakthrough into design-around. Many experts made their efforts to develop variant approaches to analyze the patent information; however, those approaches could not provide effective clues to real innovation. The authors consider that the...
Is devoted to the strategic decision making model based on project portfolio approach and fuzzy logic. The projects under discussion are innovation projects, with high risk and high potential profitability. The optimization task is based on 2 variables, profitability and risk for the whole portfolio. Strategic project portfolios then could be valued and compared.
Open Innovation, through partnerships across a community such as a network of university researchers, is an alternative mechanism to stimulate corporate growth and build value in contrast to proprietary innovation. In this paper, we build on our experience and strategies presented at previous workshops. We outline a business process model based on use cases for establishing and leveraging company-university...
Storytelling is an important but often underestimated practice in software engineering. Whereas existing research widely regards storytelling as creating a common understanding between developers and users, we argue that storytelling and prototyping are intertwined practices for innovators to persuade decision makers. Based on a two-year qualitative case study in two innovating software firms, we...
A survey of software industry professionals revealed trends involving efficiency and cost, security and safety, innovation, the digital transformation, connectivity, and governance and compliance. On the basis of the survey and personal experience in the industry, researchers have developed recommendations on how software development organizations can deal with these trends.
Innovation and product development activities in firms in almost all countries rely on the product development teams comprised of across functions. The members of product development team are those coming from various backgrounds, across departments and across areas of science. In many product development projects, team members do not always collaborate as expected due to differences in views and...
The authors examine the question in the article whether it is demonstrable a company's innovations decision impacts from public revenue data. The results obtained by applied mathematical model, describes the typical growth tendencies of the product lifecycle. We can see from some examples, how the revenue was influenced by the introduction of a specific product, or launching a new campaign, how long...
In this paper we will report our development of digital manufacturing toolbox which supports small and medium-sized enterprises in their cognitive and practical production development processes. The toolbox — or a set of tools — is part of a more extensive toolbox of supports for companies, which is developed as an essential part of the TARGET — Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and...
The evolution of the technologies leading to new products and that governs the economy of modern countries imposes a permanent innovative behavior. China government tries to answer to this need in the frame of a national policy. However, this strategy needs adaptation of the cultural behavior and of the educational system. This approach can need a long time. In this paper, several analyses are described...
This paper intends to determine the impact of pursuing a strategy for innovation on capital structure decisions and performance. It builds on the R&D management research which is country-focused and utilizes an international sample. This is significant when considering the sample of the study. While past studies have focused on single country samples, this study utilizes the most innovative firms...
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