Measuring User Innovation in Dutch High Tech SMEs: Frequency, Nature and Transfer to Producers

Measuring user innovation in Dutch high tech SMEs: Frequency, nature and transfer to producers

A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying these at significant private expense. Twenty five percent of the user innovations in our sample were transferred to commerc...

Organizing Npd Networks for High Innovation Performance: the Case of Dutch Medical Devices Smes

Does Innovation Matter for Chinese High - Tech

This paper examines the effect of innovation on export decision in Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D spending and new product output, play only a minor role for domestic exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech...

Measuring Value – Creating Value A Solution for Process Innovation in High-tech Company Networks

In today's rapidly changing business environment, enterprises must continually innovate to stay ahead of competition. Over the last decade process management has been the focus of many organizational efforts, which were designed to increase the efficiency of stable work processes. But what is the organizational impact of new businesses? How does efficiency and performance of processes change, w...

The Link between Organisational Citizenship Behaviours and Open Innovation: A Case of Isfahan High-tech Sector

 In the current challenging world,organizations in order to compete on the world stage, satisfying the needs and expectations of the customers and adapting to the changing nature of jobs, trying tohairthe staff who operates beyond the responsibility and their designated role in the jobs’ Description  Because it is believed that operation evaluation are reflected by this behavior and it will inf...