Firm’s knowledge creation structure for new product development

Existing Knowledge, Knowledge Creation Capability, and the Rate of New Product Introduction in High-technology Firms

A field study of top management teams and knowledge workers from 72 technology firms demonstrated that the rate of new product and service introduction was a function of organization members’ ability to combine and exchange knowledge. We tested the following as bases of that ability: the existing knowledge of employees (their education levels and functional heterogeneity), knowledge from member...

1 Decisions of Pharmaceutical Firms for New Product Development

Organizational Structure and Product Choice in Knowledge-Intensive Firms

This paper formulates a model in which a …rm simultaneously chooses its organizational structure and product position. The …rm’s production is knowledge-intensive, requiring employees to solve problems. A vertical hierarchy in which workers refer unsolved problems to managers facilitates the acquisition and leveraging of managers’superior knowledge. I show that a larger span of control is compl...

Medicinal and aromatic plants-new product development for povertyrReduction

Traditional Medicine is very culture based. Every ethnic group has had its traditional medicine based on its indigenous knowledge base. Most traditional medicine systems utilize herbs (plants) as the main source of their therapeutic substances, although minerals and animal products are also utilized. traditional knowledge has often played a role in the development of modern science. Greater eff...

Medicinal and aromatic plants-new product development for povertyrReduction

Traditional Medicine is very culture based. Every ethnic group has had its traditional medicine based on its indigenous knowledge base. Most traditional medicine systems utilize herbs (plants) as the main source of their therapeutic substances, although minerals and animal products are also utilized. traditional knowledge has often played a role in the development of modern science. Greater eff...