Essays about: "international innovation collaboration"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 24 essays containing the words international innovation collaboration.

  1. 16. Environmental CSR application in geographically disparate contexts: the Scandinavian cooperative advantage? : An investigative study into the role of stakeholder theory for competitive advantage within the European construction industry.

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik

    Author : Leanne Johnstone; Elinor Svärd-Sandin; [2016]
    Keywords : Corporate Sustainability; CSR; Environmental CSR; Environmental Management; Stakeholder Theory; Scandinavian Cooperative Advantage;

    Abstract : Currently, the environmental parameters of CSR are receiving more academic, institutional, societal and organisational attention as being paramount to competitive advantage, alongside the traditional economic and social concerns. The challenge for firms now is to balance considerations between all five facets of CSR - stakeholder, social, economic, degree of voluntariness and environmental - and fundamentally, the two approaches of shareholder and stakeholder; whereby the shareholder is, in effect, a stakeholder, and the stakeholder is a dimension of CSR. READ MORE

  3. 17. Enabling factors to make ocean wave power a competitive renewable energy source : case studies on modern wave energy companies in Scotland and Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Frencis Karagjozi; Gary Parker; [2016]
    Keywords : collaboration; competitive strategy; enabling factors; ocean wave power; renewable energy; wave power technology;

    Abstract : Wave power represents a major source of potential energy to address the global energy demand and modern climate issues. Although it has a huge potential, the current status shows that the source has not been harvested on a commercial scale yet. READ MORE

  4. 18. Proximity to innovation: Effect of proximities on cross-border innovation cooperation within Öresund Food Cluster actors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Valeria Markova; [2015]
    Keywords : Cross-border clusters; innovativeness; proximities; innovation mode; learning; food industry; Öresund region; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The perception on innovation as a territorial phenomenon is based on successful examples of various innovative territorial agglomerations, e.g. clusters. Knowledge and industry-related information is more abundant and accessible for the firms engaged in clusters. READ MORE

  5. 19. Firm Collaboration and its Impact on Product and Process Innovations

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Economics, Finance and Statistics

    Author : Wiera Elke Riazi; [2015]
    Keywords : Product innovation; process innovation; firm collaboration; external knowledge source; DUI; STI;

    Abstract : This paper examines the influence of different external knowledge sources used by firms in Jönköping County, Sweden, on the probability that a firm develops product innovations, process innovations, both types of innovations, or no innovation. The analysis is done by building a logit model for each of the four innovation outcomes. READ MORE

  6. 20. Study of the Key Success Factors in Early Stages of Innovation at a Global Scale

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Förpackningslogistik

    Author : Viridiana Pineda Casique; [2013]
    Keywords : Global innovation; culture; cross-cultural collaboration; global consumers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Global scale innovation is a new topic that is continuously gaining importance among companies, moreover multinational ones. The main aspects related to innovation in general were studied as well as the most important aspect of culture and cultural differences. Many theories related to the global consumer studies were reviewed. READ MORE