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August 2013 - present
InnoTep
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- Innovation, sustainability, industrial development in a regional context
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February 1994 - February 1994
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This study deals with the organization of industry-science collaboration in the case of knowledge transfer for radical innovation. Based on a contingency notion, the relation between research and development (R&D) projects' properties and the way of collaboration is explored. By means of in-depth interviews with industrial managers 32 projects were...
Scholars often follow a contingency approach to study which marketing activities are suitable for a particular type of product innovation project, thereby making a distinction between incremental and radical innovation only. ‘Moderately novel’ projects, which have intermediate levels of newness, have therefore not been given due attention. This pap...
The days of vertical integration are over. Product development, manufacturing, and other activities once done by single firms are now fields of collaboration. This raises questions about the spatial aspects of interfirm collaboration. Firms have partners in their direct environment, at a distance, or in-between, which means that traditional views o...
Innovative firms often engage in knowledge interactions across regional boundaries, which is difficult to account for by territorial innovation models. The territorial knowledge dynamics perspective directs attention to the ways in which firms and other actors combine regional and extra-regional relations. It deals with the spatial aspects of innov...
Within a particular product category, export growth can be accompanied by import growth. It is possible that a country’s producers are successful abroad while domestic consumers prefer foreign products. Another explanation is that growing exports are more and more based on imports of raw and intermediate products. Furthermore, for trading nations s...
To contribute to the province of Gelderland’s industrial and innovation policy, this report describes how and to what extent manufacturing companies in the province are anchored to the regional economy.
Aspects of anchoring that are dealt with include industrial supply (sourcing of materials and components), innovation (relationships in product- a...
Museums increasingly use interactive technologies to make a museum visit more rewarding. In this chapter we present opportunities that tabletop environments offer for learning, enjoyment, motivation, collaboration and playful interaction in museums. We discuss experiments with a tabletop interface in a popular science museum. This museum is an open...
Biotechnology is widely viewed as a field of economic activity that exemplifies a new (science-based, knowledge-intensive, post-industrial, networked, localized) way to organize production. For that reason it has been a frequent subject of research in organizational studies, industrial economics, and regional science. From this research, the pictur...
Discussion of economic theories that may explain the difference between rich and poor countries (including Balassa-Samuelson-model, endogenous growth theory, and Nelson’s methodological critique). The example of Sulawesi is used as an illustration.
Concentrating on three Dutch cities that once had an important textile industry, this study discusses the reasons for the decline of the industry and the responses by firms and other relevant actors. Reasons and responses differed between cities. Therefore, general explanations of the decline of the Dutch textile industry must be supplemented with...
Over the years knowledge has come to be seen as crucial for economic progress, and proximity as conducive to knowledge exchange. As a result, knowledge-related processes are often considered as possible explanation of the spatial agglomeration of economic activities. However, knowledge and proximity are general concepts that have to be detailed bef...
Exploration of economic connections between the Netherlands and Germany, in particular between the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands and Niedersachsen and Nordrhein-Wesfalen in Germany. Examined are cross-border living and working (including migration and commuting), internationalization patterns in higher education, economic trade, and for...
In The Netherlands, particularly in the Wageningen region, many requirements for a concentration of plant biotechnology firms were met. Ample scientific knowledge of plants and of biotechnology was available, thanks to the presence of Wageningen University and Research Centre. And Dutch horticulture would have been a large market, consisting of inn...
Firms can enhance product innovation performance by continuously staying in touch with customers and the market in general. While studies on market oriented product development have identified several general dimensions of market knowledge used in product innovation, the nature of market knowledge that is specifically important in the chemical indu...
This report presents the final results of the study Comprehensive analysis of emerging competences and economic activities in the European Union in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber and plastic products sector. The report is part of a series of sixteen future-oriented sector studies on innovation, skills and jobs under the same heading, commis...
The idea of the knowledge economy has brought with it a new paradigm of work that espouses the professionalization of all work. This new paradigm is now affecting the organization of work throughout the economy. However, not all work is knowledge work, whatever definition is used. The number of 'professionals' may rise, but many workers still face...
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between the types of R&D-activities within science-based firms and the knowledge transfer channels used for industry-science collaboration. Rooted in a contingency approach, it seeks to identify patterns in the organization of knowledge transfer and to disclose ways that may support R&D-managers...
This research presents the results of an inductive comparative case study of how exploratory and exploitative market learning is balanced during the development of eight discontinuous new product development projects in six different business units of different multinationals in the chemical industry. For these projects, all recently introduced int...
The history of technological change is not only a story of scientists, inventors and laboratories, but also a story of firms and entrepreneurs. The firm has always been the place where decisions were made, initiatives were taken, and ideas turned into real products. Even if this is true today, there have been important changes in the way firms play...
Creativity research has become an accepted branch of management and organization studies, encouraged by the increased importance of innovation research. In the process, creativity research has adapted to the organization as a research object - which is notably different from individuals as used to be studied. Accordingly, a ‘multilevel’ approach ha...
Due to globalization, competition has increased and companies have reorganized their activities in order to maintain profitability. The consequence has been an emphasis on short term results, at the expense of long term research. Therefore, most Corporate Research laboratories were closed or built down considerably. However, long term research is r...
Background study on innovation in the Dutch machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
New product development requires creativity, multidisciplinarity is believed to foster creativity, and multidisciplinary new product development teams are increasingly common. However, there is little research to offer evidence for a relationship, either positive or negative, between creativity and multidisciplinarity. Traditionally, creativity has...
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Background study on innovation in the Dutch polymer industry, with a focus on R&D collaboration. The study was conducted in the context of the Micord program, Radboud University Nijmegen.
New product development requires creativity, multidisciplinarity is believed to foster creativity, and multidisciplinary new product development teams are increasingly common. However, there is little research to offer evidence for a relationship, either positive or negative, between creativity and multidisciplinarity. Traditionally, creativity has...
Debriefing is an important phase in using simulation games. Participants are invited to make a connection between experiences gained from playing the game and experiences in real-life situations. Thus, debriefing is the phase meant to encourage learning fromthe simulation game. Although design and practice of debriefing sessions should be aligned t...
Debriefing is an important phase in using simulation games. Participants are invited to make a connection between experiences gained from playing the game and experiences in real life situations. Thus, debriefing is the phase meant to encourage learning from the simulation game. While design and practice of debriefing sessions should be aligned to...
This study describes the formation of a dispersed team and the communication processes to evolve in this team. The authors examine how the members of such a team actually used email for communication instead of starting from assumptions concerning the richness or leanness of the communication medium being used. Aspects of group formation and group...
New product development is usually teamwork. Product development teams are created that are cross–functional, representing different functional units, or multidisciplinary, involving several disciplines, or both. In any case, conceiving and developing new products is a joint effort, which means that the traditional view of creativity may not apply....
New product development is usually teamwork. Product development teams are cross-functional, representing different functional units, or multidisciplinary, involving several disciplines, or both. In any case, conceiving and developing new products is a joint effort, which means that the standard view of creativity may not apply – a view that is cha...
Deskundigen zijn veelgevraagde mensen, vandaag de dag. Ze staan rechters bij, adviseren bedrijven, nemen politici werk uit handen, en verschijnen vaak op de televisie. Hun kennis is liefst wetenschappelijk van aard, want anders dan in de kunst bijvoorbeeld zijn er in de wetenschap criteria om goed en minder goed werk te onderscheiden. Bij implicati...
The validity of artificial situations is often questioned, and particularly so the possibility of transfer of findings to the real world. Such questions, or doubts, may stem from a rigid distinction between real and artificial situations or from too strict a notion of representation. This article will argue that ‘the real world’ does not provide un...
Are new products accomplished by highly creative individuals, or by creative teams? This paper will start from the assumption that some creative team achievements cannot be reduced to the work of separate team members. Does this assumption mean that some major strands of research on creativity become irrelevant to the study of new product developme...
The focus of this article is organizational learning in Dutch governmental agencies in relation to evaluation studies of the Court of Audit. A theory is developed in which the impact of evaluation is related to institutional conditions, such as - formal arrangements and normative frameworks. These institutions are conceived as being located within...
‘The knowledge economy’ is sometimes used as an analytical term, sometimes as a scenario. As an analytical term, the concept allows theoretical integration of observations made in various research areas, e.g. business strategy, innovation, HRM, education, labour market, information technology, and economic policy. As a scenario, the concept extrapo...
In social psychology, poor performance of individuals in teams is usually classified under the heading of ‘social loafing.’ In economics and administrative sciences, the concepts of ‘shirking’ and ‘free riding’ are used to denote poor performance by individuals working in collectivities. Research in all these disciplines tends to stress the propens...
In recent years, the idea that public policy can be viewed as a horizontal and polycentric process (if not a series of interlocked processes) has become widely acknowledged in the field of public administration research. Still to be explored, however, are implications of this view for policy making and policy evaluation. Moreover, work in this fiel...
Change management is difficult, or so it is perceived by self-proclaimed change agents. It is frustrating when intended change does not happen, or happens incompletely, or comes about only gradually, and it is frustrating when unintended effects materialize. The limited success of many a change attempt is often ascribed to a ‘lack of understanding’...
The idea of process is prominent in organization theory but less so in research. Limited access to organizations is a likely explanation, particularly because process analysis often requires detailed data. Experimental research may provide the necessary data, if only a method is used that allows the situation under study to change as a result of ac...
One way to deal with complex situations is the simulation approach: build a simplified model of this reality, learn from this simplified model, and, finally, translate the findings or knowledge back to the reality. Gaming is based on this idea, If we want to make inferences about reality based on experiences and knowledge acquired in a game, we hav...
Justification is an integral aspect of any process of knowledge acquisition. The assumptions
made, the methods applied, the reasoning used, must be sound. In the domain of social research,
justification issues are captured by the concept of validity. This concept, though,
largely derives from a tradition in which great value was attached to standar...
Debriefing is an important phase in gaming simulations. It is the activity where participants make the transfer from the experiences they acquired during the simulation to real life situations, or in other words, it is the phase where the actual learning has to take place. Therefore, due attention should be given to design and practice debriefing i...
TERRA NOVA is a game about sustainable development, not only of physical environment but also of other conditions for human life, such as caring and responsible social relations, food and shelter, health, education, justice, peace and cultural tolerance. The game allows the articulation and implementation of ideas on the ways we produce and reprodu...
The idea that policy and public administration can be viewed as a horizontal and polycentric process (if not a series of interlocked processes) has only a short history, and there has been little time to derive and test implications for policy development and steering. Work in this field pertains largely to 'network management' and related approach...
Some questions in the study of public administration are difficult to answer on the basis of field research. A field of inquiry may be absent, as in the case of research that seeks to explore future outcomes of present policies, or of policies that are still being developed. Another example is that of policy assessment through the analysis of likel...
Often, administrative reform is guided by a 'blueprint approach'. Thinking about reform begins with an assessment of the actual situation. When present arrangements are found unfavourable, the question arises what a better administration would look like. In a subsequent design process, characteristics of a new administrative structure are focused u...
Policy processes evolve in highly institutionalized environments, and policy effects are generally shaped by these environments. Policy outcomes could therefore be expected to be patterned and even predictable. In practice, however, prediction of policy outcomes is difficult. In part this lack of predictability relates to policy itself as many poli...
Strategies for change in organizations often have unintended effects, and their intended effects are not always achieved. In this article, some aspects of the dynamics of such strategies are analyzed. Strategies are shown to be transformed in the course of processes of change, especially as a result of organizational culture. Moreover, different or...
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Question (1)
Co-word analysis is a method for tracing developments in a scientific discipline on the basis of texts. Often, keywords are used but other source materials, such as title words, are also used. I would prefer longer strings of text, e.g. abstracts, but I don't know if that is feasible. There is a lot of literature but the studies I have seen thus far tend to concentrate on interpretation rather than providing a detailed discussion of method.
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Depending on the publication, a mix of: 1. study dynamics of human social behaviour across cultures; 2. and enhance awareness about cross-cultural issues among participants; 3. provide help for facilitators..
