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On the basis of a synthetic review of the literature about the Living Labs phenomenon, the article investigates to what extent the theoretical approach finds a coherent application in the reality. Focusing on 15 Italian living labs associated to the ENoLL, the study addresses a comparative analysis based on a set of features extracted from the literature. In providing a significant overview of the...
Several previous research show that the reputation of the CEOs of big companies are closely related to the reputation of their companies [1][2]. These researches include some guidelines such us to include training to managers in social media and Online tools for reputational influence [3][4]. In the Spanish case, where large corporations are not the majority of the business, but are SMEs [5], an approach...
In this paper key presumptions and prerequisites of e-cluster organization and sustain development in TIMES technology sectors (TIMES — Telecommunication, Information technology, Multimedia, Entertainment, Security) are analyzed and how can integrate small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the e-cluster. E-clustering is macroeconomic policy and strategy with crucial impact on horizontal and vertical...
This paper will focus on successful entrepreneurship and what it takes to win as well as how incubators facilitate the process of growing start-up and early stage companies or ventures. An incubator case study is included.
Crowd funding has been embraced by entrepreneurs across the globe as an alternative to traditional sources of funding. However, it is not clear that ICT entrepreneurs in Sweden have embraced it as warmly, despite the potential benefits it offers. This paper explores this empirical puzzle in light of two complementary theoretical literatures: institutional entrepreneurship and technology affordances...
Dynamic capabilities represent every change-oriented routine action in company. Dynamic capabilities are widely used due to their aim to cope with dynamical changes, which happen often/regularly. Managers and employees are behind of most companies' actions. While earlier research has emphasized more capabilities selection than their development techniques, then it makes managerial decisions especially...
Due to the double pressures of the global economic crisis and rising costs, small and medium-sized enterprise's survival and development face new challenges. The small business in the United States has high informatization level, which is not only the important force of technology innovation, but also has wide social connections, especially with big businesses. Reasons should be attributed to the...
This paper examines the moderating role of business and social networks in the internationalization process of born global high technology Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of developed and emerging economies. We develop a conceptual model in which the relationship between the two types of networks and the internationalization process (speed, geographic scope and entry mode)...
The role of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Croatian economy is comparatively smaller than in the developed European Union (EU) countries. In this paper we analyze some of the factors which contribute to such a situation, and provide some policy proposals which could address it. The proposals have been based on the analysis of current trends related to innovation activities...
Due to intense competition and time-to-market pressures, Telecommunications companies across the world are fostering and stimulating Research and Development (R&D) organizations to ‘open-up’ to various degrees. This is a response to both an immediate ‘need’ and perhaps due to the fact that the well proven open innovation paradigm has shown to be an effective strategy. Naturally, the degree of...
New technology-based firms, particularly those that develop their business around a new technological platform, are likely to be impacted by globalization, in terms of both pace of innovation and pressure of competition. In practice strategic decisions concern each of these processes and address issues such as organizational boundaries, location of the operational activities, what activities to focus...
Under the discussion of the innovation management in experience economy, this article takes the industrial tourism which is launched by industrial enterprise as an example, probing into the key factors of experience innovation management. With the empirical research method, this article chooses 300 customers serviced by experience products by dozens of enterprises. Through the factor analysis with...
How to survive and grow has always been a serious problem faced by the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on a B2B platform. A lot of researches in entrepreneurship field have proved the positive effects of entrepreneurial orientation on firms' performance, but few researchers studied how entrepreneurial orientation influences performance. Based on the institutional theory, this paper introduces...
We review in this article the approach taken at The University of New South Wales to introduce engineering students to the concept of entrepreneurship. We situate the course within the curriculum and contrast the approach taken with the majority of more traditional engineering-oriented subject.
Firms are recognizing the need to distinguish between R&D and Innovation. Innovation is becoming a distinct management function in the lines of marketing, HR, etc. Businesses need to be ambidextrous in their thinking taking into account capabilities of both right (creative) and left (analytical) side of the brain as challenges faced today requires integral solutions. The need is to work in cross...
In the context of globalization and network economy, the development of Chinese enterprises rely more and more on innovation management. This paper gives an introduction of Total Innovation Management theory, which is a useful theory and has large application value on Chinese enterprises' practices. In addition, this paper analyzes the case of Hangzhou Honyar Company according to the Total Innovation...
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the definition of corporate entrepreneurship, the elements of corporate entrepreneurship, the process of corporate entrepreneurship and the type and strategy of corporate entrepreneurship. It this study, the followings will be pointed out, namely, the content of corporate entrepreneurship, five elements of corporate entrepreneurship, two processes...
It is widely accepted nowadays that certain top-manager characteristics have great influence on corporate investment strategies and a firm's innovativeness. The present paper focuses on how top-manager origin is related to innovative firm activity. More specifically we discuss whether managers hired from outside the firm are associated with higher or lower innovative firm performance compared to internally...
Businesses with the best product-development track records stand apart from their less-successful peers in crucial ways. We found — after surveying more than 300 employees at 28 companies across North America and Europe — that businesses with the best R&D performance do well in Customer Insights, Concept Development, PD Execution, and Risk Management.
The People's Republic of China has shown strong economic growth rates within the last years, which can in part be attributed to the increasing foundation of startup companies, especially in the IT sector. Due to a lack of familiarity with novel situations, it is difficult for entrepreneurial teams to operate successfully during the first years after starting out. Previous research suggests that high...
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