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“Africa’s national diversity is becoming a burden for diplomatic interaction. It is more efficient for the United States to work with regional groups in Africa than with individual states. This means that efforts to foster regional integration by creating larger markets, simplifying trading rules, reducing corruption, and investing in regional infrastructure to promote movement of goods will go a...
Abstract Purpose – Acquiring knowledge-intensive firms in order to gain access to their knowledge to innovate is not a strategy to achieve easily. Knowledge acquisitions demand that organizations integrate various dispersed knowledge-based resources and thus share knowledge to innovate. Similar Products: Powered by The Economics of Knowledge :: Amazon The economics of knowledge is...
Publisher’s note: The following could well hold lessons for wood and furniture businesses across Africa. Abstract Purpose – The study aims to analyse the wood and furniture innovation system in the region of Thessaly, Greece, and the recording and benchmarking of innovative activity of enterprises in order to detect best practices applied, and to propose ways of increasing efficiency through improvement...
Abstract Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present the results of a study examining the role played by academic entrepreneurs in science-based companies grown in university incubators. The authors aim to address whether the presence of academic entrepreneurs improves economic and financial performances. Moreover, the authors aim to verify whether different levels of involvement of academic entrepreneurs...
Abstract Purpose – This article aims to identify the capabilities supporting the development of collaborative innovation within knowledge-intensive environments. Design/methodology/approach – Re-considering the history of the ARPANET project as a vivid example of collaborative innovation, the article presents qualitative research from a historical case. Similar Products: Powered by Technology...
Mobile Internet Service Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze standard setting and how a critical mass of users emerged in an industry in which multiple interface standards co-exist and a critical mass of users was created multiple times. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on research conducted for almost ten years using the case study approach. Data were gathered through...
Abstract Purpose – The paper, covering the actual argument of open innovation, aims to answer two main research questions, namely: “Which open innovation approach is adopted by the companies belonging to the ICTs industry?” and “Which types of collaborations are carried out by the companies and which are the dynamics that characterize it?”. Similar Products: Powered by Innovation and...
