Search results for "innovation performance"
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R&D supply chain and innovation performance: the contingent role of the firm’s position in the network
2013
This paper conceptualizes the supply chain of innovation as a sub-set of the whole innovation network. We focus on the relationship between the activities of purchasing/selling R&D and the firm’s innovation performance. Specifically, we examine how the position of the firm within its innovation network moderates this relationship. Our empirical setting consists in cross-sectional data about 1772 agreements signed by biotech companies between 2006-2010. We find, first, anecdotal evidence of both the existence of the innovation supply chain and the phenomenon of firms’ positioning along it. Second, we find that information richness positively moderates the effect of purchasing R&D services on…
Determinants and effects of external knowledge search: Focusing on organizational formal structure
2013
Tesis Doctoral presentada por Ana García Granero en el Departament de Direcció d'Empreses "Juan José Renau Piqueras" de la Universitat de València - Facultat d'Economia y realizada en el Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV).
Inovāciju snieguma salīdzinājums Igaunijā un Latvijā: ko Igaunija dara labāk?
2016
Zinātne, tehnoloģijas un inovācijas ir pamatā ekonomiskai izaugsmei, kas ir vērsta uz jaunu produktu radīšanu ar augstu pievienoto vērtību. Šī maģistra darba kontekstā autore ir veikusi Igaunijas un Latvijas inovāciju snieguma aspektu faktoru analīzi. Šī darba mērķis ir noteikt un analizēt iemeslus, kādēļ Igaunijai inovāciju sniegums ir augstāks nekā Latvijā. Galvenais autores izvirzītais izpētes jautājums ir: Kāpēc Igaunija apsteidz Latviju inovāciju sniegumā? Autore padziļināti pēta specifiskus faktorus inovāciju jomā: 1) sadarbība starp zinātni un nozarēm Igaunijā un Latvijā; 2) cilvēkresursi pētniecībā un attīstībā. Autore vēlas identificēt galvenās atšķirības starp nacionālajām inovāci…
Are quality management practices enough to improve process innovation?
2015
The popularity of quality management as a system for continuous improvement has not been accompanied by deep theoretical understanding of its effects on process innovation. In this work, the resource-based view serves as the basis for the construction of a model designed to explain the effects of quality management practices (QMP) on process innovation performance and the mediating role of dynamic capabilities in this relationship. The empirical data were analysed using the structural equation modelling technique by examining 6 competing models that represent full, partial mediation and non-mediation relationships on a sample of 550 Spanish industrial companies. The findings indicate that t…