Current market dynamics require European SME’s to focus on complex products manufacturing and to build non-hierarchical business networks, to assure competitiveness and sustainability. Such trend demands appropriate methods for network formation and management, including reference collaboration processes and supporting ICT tools. This paper presents a framework to support SME’s in the creation ...

This paper analyzes innovation adoption when uncertainty about its profitability cannot be resolved immediately. Firms begin with a common estimate of the probability of high demand. If any adopts, all observe realized demand. An increase in the initial estimate can decrease the equilibrium number of initial adopters, because it results in higher updated estimates that can induce future adoptio...

This paper compares systematically the two theoretical models of adaptation, ecological and evolutionary. Using notions from innovation, learning, and balanced change, the two models are contrasted in the context of 73 European, Japanese, and U.S. industrial robotics firms that introduced new robotics products in 1984-1997. A hybrid of ecological and evolutionary views is found to predict innov...

Article history: Available online 11 August 2011

The present article deals with innovation and therapeutic efficacy of Akshun -bathing lotion for pain relief a proprietary Siddha drug. The clinical trial findings show that the product possess pain relieving effect and which was reported by the patients suffered from cervical spondylitis, low back pain and pain in the joints; participated in the trial. Further the period of relief was stated t...

Double marginalization effect refers to the phenomenon that when both upstream and downstream firms have monopolistic power, customers pay higher retail price and firms make less profit than when the supply chain is vertically integrated (Tirole, 1988). Although double marginalization effect has been extensively studied in the context of supply chain management for mature products, very limited...

This paper presents a project memory (PM) based on a decision-making process model and applied on case studies from PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN Automotive Research and Innovation Department. This research work is developed within the framework of knowledge management systems for design projects of innovative products. First, we discuss the links between innovation, decision-making, knowledge in enginee...

Union rent-seeking is considered a tax on f irm returns f rom investments in innovative activity. We examine this proposition by considering the responses o f f irms in a 1985 survey on R&D and product innovation. Consistent with our model, we f ind that innovative activity is significantly less important for union than for similar nonunion firms. We conclude that innovative activity may be an ...

The purpose of the article is the establishment of the tightness of the connection between the various sources of financing and the introduction of innovations at enterprises. In the process of research such scientific methods have been used: modeling – to determine the influence of the source of funding for innovation activities, on the number of new technological processes introduced and the ...

e-commerce has made life simple and innovative of individuals and groups consumer behavior in online shopping is different from the physical market where he has access to see the product. the purpose of the research was to study the consumer behavior in online shopping of electronics especially in iran. primary data was collected through the questionnaire survey and by emails from personal cont...