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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Theory, Policy and Practice
This book aims to meet the needs of education and training in modern techniques of innovation and entrepreneurship, and focuses on the detailed presentation of successful business practices. As today's global economic landscape is changing rapidly, the ability of businesses to introduce new products and services to the market faster than their competitors is perhaps their most distinct competit…
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- 978-3-319-11241-1
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- XVI, 218
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- 600 CAR i
The Socioeconomic Evolution of the European Union Exploring the Electronic F…
This volume explores the role of territory in the creation, maintenance and extension of a new type of frontier, the electronic frontier, from a social and economic point of view. It departs from the earlier concepts of borders – state, social, economic, ethnic, religious, etc. – to investigate the fluidity of borders and their shift towards an axis-based paradigm within the free-movement …
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- 978-3-319-40304-5
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The Smart City and the Co-creation of Value A Source of New Competitiveness …
The original point that differentiates this text from otherwise similar texts is that it looks at the building of smart cities from the viewpoint of an interchange of knowledge among companies in different industries, or “Ba” as shared context in motion, and emphasizes that the resulting value becomes a source of new corporate competitive advantage. In recent years numerous publications …
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- 978-4-431-55846-0
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Open Innovation in R&D Departments: An Analysis of Employees’ Intention to …
Based on interviews with R&D managers and a survey amongst R&D employees, Verena Nedon shows that perceived social pressure has an immense impact on R&D employees working in OI-projects. Employees’ attitude (regardless of whether positive or negative) and perceived behavioral control play an important, but not dominant role. The study also implies that intrinsic motivators have a stronger eff…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-09584-0
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- XV, 200
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- Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management
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Ontology Modeling in Physical Asset Integrity Management
This book presents cutting-edge applications of, and up-to-date research on, ontology engineering techniques in the physical asset integrity domain. Though a survey of state-of-the-art theory and methods on ontology engineering, the authors emphasize essential topics including data integration modeling, knowledge representation, and semantic interpretation. The book also reflects novel topics d…
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- 978-3-319-35585-6
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- XVIII, 264
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Online Algorithms for Optimal Energy Distribution in Microgrids
Presenting an optimal energy distribution strategy for microgrids in a smart grid environment, and featuring a detailed analysis of the mathematical techniques of convex optimization and online algorithms, this book provides readers with essential content on how to achieve multi-objective optimization that takes into consideration power subscribers, energy providers and grid smoothing in microg…
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- 978-3-319-17132-6
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- XIII, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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The Role of Fear for Entrepreneurial Venture Creation Causes of Failure befo…
Based on theory and an empirical survey, Philipp K. Berger measures the amount of fear for different groups of entrepreneurs. He draws parallels to Prospect Theory revealing the components of fear and shows, that entrepreneurial fear is a rather rational subconscious evaluation of the situation. Furthermore, he identifies the root causes of this fear – the fear of failure – and the underlyi…
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- 978-3-658-09000-5
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New Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Management in Or…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy, GIKA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2015. The theme of the conference was “New Knowledge Impacts on Designing Implementable Innovative Realities.” The GIKA conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students to present and exchange ideas concerning m…
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- 978-3-319-22203-5
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- VIII, 137
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transfo…
Similar to the first “Transitioned Media” book, Transitioned Media: A Turning Point into the Digital Realm, this book combines media industry leaders and academics to explore various transformative trends and issues. Themes include measuring cross-platform behaviour, artificial intelligence in journalism, the evolution of video games, digital media and physical space, the mobile use trends,…
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- 978-3-319-09009-2
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- XIII, 151
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- The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment
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Wireless World in 2050 and Beyond: A Window into the Future
This book gathers visionary ideas from leading academics and scientists to predict the future of wireless communication and enabling technologies in 2050 and beyond. The content combines a wealth of illustrations, tables, business models, and novel approaches to the evolution of wireless communication. The book also provides glimpses into the future of emerging technologies, end-to-end syste…
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- 978-3-319-42141-4
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- XXII, 168
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