The Importance of Education in Enhancing the Innovation Capacity in Serbia

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Bojan Lalic ◽  
Danijela Ciric ◽  
Danijela Gracanin ◽  
Zoran Anisic
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Capacity

The importance of human resources to the innovative capacity of portuguese firms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
Innovative Process ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Innovative Capacity ◽  
Training Of Personnel

In this study I test the importance of several Human Resource variables to the innovation capacity of portuguese firms but also the effects that the innovation process generates on Human Resources. A branch of the innovation literature states that the ability of firms to innovate relies on an innovative capacity, which, in turn, depends on several factors, both internal and external to enterprises. One of those factors is the effort of firms to train their personnel specifically in order to enable them to innovate. The present test is applied to 4818 Portuguese enterprises for the period 2002-2004 through the use of the fourth Community Innovation Survey data. In order to evaluate the contribution of Human Resources to innovation I have estimated several knowledge Production Functions, mainly using probits and tobits. In that framework it is assumed that innovation depends on some inputs (as the training of personnel) and on information-flows from the existing knowledge stock (as clients). I have found significant the role of personnel training for the innovative process of Portuguese firms. Moreover, I also found that the lack of qualified personnel hinged critically more innovative performance of firms and, in addition, it is noticed that the improvement of productivuty (cost reduction) was the main effect of innovation in Portuguese firms.

Exploring the Patent Landscape of RNAi-based Innovation for Plant Breeding

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Gianfranco Frisio ◽  
Vera Ventura
Keyword(s):  
Plant Breeding ◽  
High Specificity ◽  
Ownership Type ◽  
Modern Agriculture ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Patent Landscape ◽  
The Us ◽  
Innovation Sector ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Rnai Technique

Background: RNA interference (RNAi) is an innovative technique for plant improvement based on naturally occurring mechanisms which show great potential because of their high specificity and possibility to be applied through innovative methods of topical application in plants. This specific innovation sector is worth analysing from the economic perspective given the great potentiality of RNAi-based plants and products to support modern agriculture in reaching the goals for the improvement of agri-food chains global sustainability. This paper aims to evaluate the global landscape of RNAi innovation by analysing patent data as indicators of innovation output. Methods: We revised all patents relating to RNAi in plants based on a dataset of roughly seven thousand patent families. The analysis classified inventions according to a set of variables able to characterise the dynamics of innovation (i.e. public/private ownership, type of plants involved, main traits) while the use of concentration indices provided insights into the evolution of this sector. Results: Results revealed that RNAi is a technique with promising future applications, able to provide solutions to a great variety of agricultural issues and principally developed by the US and Chinese applicants, whereas European innovation capacity in this field appears to be limited. Conclusion: The innovation landscape of plant breeding is rapidly evolving and RNAi technique is probably going to play a major role in this field.

Discovering a Rosetta Stone for Firm-Side Authenticity: An Empirical Investigation

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Parkman ◽  
Samuel Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Four Quadrant

While most academic research has considered authenticity from the consumers perspective, this paper proposes and tests a new empirical operationalization of Beverlands (2005) widely cited proposition that firm-side authenticity is…partly true and partly rhetorical (p.1008). Our study presents a model based on the Competitive Advantage (CA) that results from congruence between the partly true aspects of the firms internal culture, resources, and capabilities measured as Innovation Capacity (IC), alongside Corporate Identity Management (CIM) as the organizations partly rhetorical outwardly-directed corporate branding and marketing promotions activities. Our findings are interpreted through a four-quadrant Rosetta Stone framework for evaluating firm-side authenticity across organizational contexts and environments describing how high-IC/high-CIM (i.e., Authentic) firms create differentiation from low-IC/low-CIM Inauthentic organizations and low-IC/high-CIM Faux Imitators competitors who attempt to compensate for their lack of IC through increased investments in CIM.

scholarly journals How Organization Models Impact the Governing of Industrial Symbiosis in Public Wastewater Management. An Explorative Study in Sweden

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 824
Author(s):  
Karolina Södergren ◽  
Jenny Palm
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Inclusive Process ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Business Technology ◽  
Organization Models

The industrial symbiosis (IS) landscape is evolving rapidly. While previous studies have argued for the importance of municipalities participating in the governing of IS, research on the implications of different forms of municipal organization is still lacking. This paper aims to investigate how municipal administration and municipally-owned corporations, as two forms of organization, impact the governing of IS in the water and sewage sector. This is explored in relation to the Swedish municipality Simrishamn, which recently underwent changes in the form of organization. Results show that municipal administration contributes to a more inclusive process where many actors can influence and bring ideas and perspectives on how to develop an IS. The risk, however, is that other issues within the municipality are seen as more pressing and, therefore, get prioritized before IS. In corporate form, the development of IS becomes more business-like as the focus is kept on core business. Technology development is strengthened as skills and competencies are promoted through the expertise of the employees. Drawbacks include processes becoming less transparent and political goals, such as citizen welfare not receiving the same level of priority as within municipal administration. There is also a risk that fewer perspectives are included in the process of developing IS, which may inhibit innovation, even if the results also indicate that an increased business focus of the corporate form strengthens the innovation capacity.

Practices for the Construction of Innovation Capacity Base on the Structural Organization Capital

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fernanda Dnaz-Delgado ◽  
Hermenegildo Gil-Gomez ◽  
Luisa Fernanda Vargas Silva ◽  
Hugo Ernesto Martinez Ardila
Keyword(s):  
Structural Organization ◽  
Organization Capital ◽  
Innovation Capacity

Evaluating an Australian public policy organization's innovation capacity

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan O'Connor ◽  
Göran Roos ◽  
Tony Vickers‐Willis
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Innovation Capacity

APPLYING ANSOFF’S GROWTH STRATEGY MATRIX TO INNOVATION CLASSIFICATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850039
Author(s):  
TUGBA GURCAYLILAR-YENIDOGAN ◽  
SAFAK AKSOY
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Firm Innovativeness ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Manage Innovation

This study aims to determine innovation capacity of a firm and to investigate the correlations between performance outcomes and innovation types. In this study, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted to classify firms with respect to different novelty degrees of innovation activities in developing new products and the magnitude of market impact shortly after innovations have been introduced and then appraise the association between innovation types and performance outcomes. The data obtained from the Turkish industrial clusters show that the higher firm innovativeness in product and market with a wide-spread diffusion effect of innovations, the greater is the market and production performance. To the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the few studies applying the product-market growth matrix to determine/manage innovation portfolio of firms.

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