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Martin A Bader - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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managing intellectual property in inter firm r d collaborations in knowledge intensive industries
International Journal of Technology Management, 2008Co-Authors: Martin A BaderAbstract:Managing intellectual property plays a crucial role in a collaborative innovation environment by providing legal protection, especially when supporting factual protection strategies that enable profits from temporary monopolies. However, legal protection strategies are a novelty in emerging business fields, such as the Knowledge-Intensive Industry sector, as innovation and value creation are shifting towards service innovations that are difficult to tackle by legal protection instruments. The ways in which intellectual property can be managed in such an environment is, therefore, the subject of this research that follows a multiple-case design. Four dominant patterns get identified, discussed and summarised with respect to the collaborative Knowledge-Intensive Industry environment: (1) multiplicator, (2) leverager, (3) absorber, (4) filtrator.
Natu, Sveta Ashokchandra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Knowledge sharing in cross-functional virtual teams: an organizational study: Software development virtual teams
2024Co-Authors: Natu, Sveta AshokchandraAbstract:Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Information Systems and Technologies ManagementSoftware development is a highly Knowledge-Intensive Industry that demands collaboration on behalf of everyone who participates in the process. Moreover, the successful accomplishment of the process depends on knowledge sharing and acquisition among the stakeholders. For this reason, organizations must understand how the knowledge-sharing process unrolls among employees. Nowadays, geographical distance is unavoidable and, thence, subjective distance must be considered by researchers. This study provides an analysis of knowledge-sharing behavior within employees in software development roles in virtual teams, namely functional and technical, having subjective distance in mind. A research model based on a literature review was proposed to understand different dimensions of knowledge sharing. Afterward, the research model was empirically tested based on data collected in an organization with expertise in ERP software development through the implementation of a questionnaire. The method used to analyze the data was PLS-SEM. Results suggest that individuals share knowledge mainly to fulfill intrinsic needs; however, organizational culture also plays an important role in knowledge sharing. The results are fundamental whether for academics and practitioners to acknowledge how knowledge sharing occurs and, consequently, help in the decisionmaking processes regarding Knowledge Management within the companies.O desenvolvimento de software é uma indústria baseada em conhecimento que requer colaboração por parte de todos aqueles que participam no processo. Além disso, o sucesso deste depende da aquisição e partilha de conhecimento entre os stakeholders. Por estas razões, as organizações devem perceber como é que o processo de partilha de conhecimento desenrola entre os seus colaboradores. Nos dias de hoje, a distância física é inevitável e, por isso, a distância subjetiva deve ser considerada pelos investigadores. Este estudo oferece uma análise do comportamento de partilha de conhecimento entre os membros de equipas virtuais em papéis de desenvolvimento de software, nomeadamente funcionais e técnicos, tendo em conta a distância subjetiva. Um modelo de pesquisa baseado na revisão de literatura foi proposto para perceber as diferentes dimensões da partilha de conhecimento. De seguida, o modelo foi testado empiricamente com base em dados recolhidos numa organização especializada em desenvolvimento de software ERP através da implementação de um questionário. O método usado para analisar os dados foi o PLS-SEM. Os resultados sugerem que os indivíduos partilham conhecimento para satisfazer necessidades intrínsecas. No entanto, a cultura organizacional também tem um papel importante na partilha de conhecimento. Os resultados são fundamentais quer para académicos quer para praticantes para reconhecer como é que a partilha de conhecimento ocorre e, consequentemente, ajudar na tomada de decisão a respeito da Gestão de Conhecimento nas empresas
Jesus Alquezar Sabadie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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technological innovation human capital and social change for sustainability lessons learnt from the industrial technologies theme of the eu s research framework programme
Science of The Total Environment, 2014Co-Authors: Jesus Alquezar SabadieAbstract:Abstract Europe is facing a twofold challenge. It must maintain or even increase its competitiveness, a basic requirement in a globalised economy and under the current demographic threat. It needs also to tackle the so-called “grand challenges”, especially environmental issues, through a sustainable model of production and consumption. Such challenges should lead to new business and industrial models, based on more sustainable production and consumption chains, from design to end of life. This implies a need for new industrial materials and processes, new skills and, indeed, new values and life-styles. Sustainability and innovation are key elements of EU's Research and Innovation Framework Programmes, particularly in the field of industrial technologies (nanotechnologies, materials and industrial technologies), which objective is to “improve the competitiveness of the European Industry and generate knowledge to ensure its transformation from a resource intensive to a knowledge intensive Industry”. Sustainability and innovation are interrelated challenges for R&D. Research can develop technical solutions to tackle environmental or societal challenges, but such technologies need to be successfully commercialised to have a real environmental impact. Several socio-economic studies carried-out by the European Commission show not only the emerging technological and industrial trends, but they also emphasise the need for linking sustainable technologies with social change. Human capital and new social behaviours are critical factors to combine economic competitiveness and sustainability: technology alone is no longer able to solve global challenges. But what kind of human capital (skills, behaviours, and values) are we referring to? How to encourage the shift towards a greener society through human capital? Which reforms are needed in education systems to move towards a sustainable economy? Are there examples of social innovation to be extrapolated and/or generalised?
Anoush Margaryan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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self regulated learning in the financial services Industry
2014Co-Authors: Colin Milligan, Pia Fontana, Allison Littlejohn, Anoush MargaryanAbstract:INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: In today’s knowledge intensive workplaces, there is a need for learning to occur continually as workers solve complex work problems (Hager, 2004). Job roles have transformed as contemporary work contexts become complex, demanding approaches to working and learning that adapt to meet the demands of these new roles (Tynjala, 2008). The dynamic nature of work means that workers’ have to assume greater responsibility for planning their work and in transforming their work practices. They must also take more responsibility for planning their learning and evolving their learning practices, by setting learning goals, monitoring progress, and adapting strategies to suit specific learning contexts (Schulz & Stamov Rosnagel, 2010). These behaviours mirror the sub-processes of self-regulated learning (Zimmermann, 2000). This study examines individual learning at work in a knowledge intensive Industry: financial services, using the self-regulation of learning as a theoretical lens. Although self-regulated learning theories have been formulated for use in formal, educational contexts, some have been applied to workplace learning: initially formal, workplace training contexts (see Sitzmann & Ely, 2011 for a comprehensive synthesis) and, more recently, intentional informal learning for work (van Eekelen, Boshuizen & Vermunt 2005; Margaryan, Littlejohn & Milligan; 2013; Schulz & Stamov Rosnagel, 2009). The study examines the learning practices of knowledge workers in the financial services Industry, questioning whether workers who demonstrate varying levels of self-regulation of learning, learn in different ways.
Ram Mudambi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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accessing vs sourcing knowledge a comparative study of r d internationalization between emerging and advanced economy firms
Journal of International Business Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Snehal Awate, Marcus Moller Larsen, Ram MudambiAbstract:Research and development (R&D) internationalization is on the rise for advanced economy multinationals (AMNEs) as well as emerging economy multinationals (EMNEs). We study EMNE R&D internationalization by comparing it to that by AMNEs in the context of an emerging, Knowledge-Intensive Industry. We find that these two are fundamentally different processes. While the internationalization of AMNEs’ R&D activities can largely be explained in terms of the twin strategies of competence exploitation and competence creation, EMNE R&D internationalization is rooted in the firms’ overall catch up strategy to get on par with Industry leaders. An in-depth comparison of knowledge flows reveals that within AMNEs, headquarters often serves the primary source of knowledge for R&D subsidiaries. In contrast, within EMNEs, headquarters accesses knowledge from R&D subsidiaries in advanced economies for innovation catch-up. Within this dichotomy, the innovative capabilities of EMNE headquarters develop more slowly and with greater difficulty than those of AMNE subsidiaries.
