Innovation in services – how different from manufacturing?

exploring senior high-school iranian students’ dominant learning style preferences in learning english: how are “good language learners” different from the majority?

چکیده بسیاری از محققان جنبه های مختلفی از سبک های یادگیری را مورد بررسی قرار داده اند. با این وجود، مطالعات بسیار کمی تعاملات بین مفاهیم سبک های یادگیری و " زبان آموزان خوب" " را در مورد توجه قرار داده است. بدین دلیل، هدف کلی این مطالعه بررسی ترجیحات سبکهای یادگیری غالب در دانش آموزان دبیرستانی ایران، و مقایسه آن با ترجیحات سبکهای یادگیری غالب " زبان آموزان خوب" می باشد. با این هدف ، پرسشنامه ...

Innovation Determinants in Manufacturing Firms

In this paper the findings of an empirical study concerning the innovation determinants in manufacturing firms is presented. The empirical study covers 184 manufacturing firms located in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey. The types of innovation considered here are product, process, marketing and organizational innovations. An extensive literature survey on innovation determinants is provid...

Manufacturing Innovation for Smartphones

Mobile phone manufacturers are now changing their main products from feature phones to smartphones. In addition, due to the stagnation of the global economy, the manufacturing industry in Japan is faced with six main issues: a strong yen, high corporation tax, a delay in trade liberalization, tight labor regulations, global warming, and a power shortage problem stemming from the accident at the...

Manufacturing – Opportunities for Innovation

Spillovers in Product and Process Innovation : Evidence from Manufacturing Firms

This paper proposes a new empirical approach to assess the impact of knowledge spillovers on firms' productivity and demand. I consider a model where process innovations spillovers to other firms raise firms relative efficiency and technological diffusion of product innovations enhances firms' demand. By modelling knowledge capital as a function of own investment in R\&D and spillovers, I can c...