TL 038 INNOVATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT: A RESEARCH AGENDA SERGEY FILIPPOV; HERMAN MOOI DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION SYSTEMS RESEARCHER AT DELFT CENTRE FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT (THE NETHERLANDS) Abstract th Originally developed in the mid-20 century, project management has become a distinctive way to manage business activities nowadays. Another important development is virtually universal recognition of the role of innovation and technology in the corporate change
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whatsoever interest its residents. Creative Brisbane creative economy 2013-22 aims to make Brisbane an expressive, enthusiastic and energetic hub. Its vision is to make Brisbane a leading city, which has people with different talent, great opportunities for migrants and students. With the new global economy the cities advantage with opportunities that ensures the ease of business, innovative human capital and thereby boosts the economy. Creativity and innovation are like the heart and soul for driving
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business investment have slowed the advance of innovation combined global private and public R&D expenditure followed a path of constant growth, Gross domestic expenditures on R&D (GERD) in the high-income economies of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) increased The worldwide recovery of business enterprise expenditure on R&D (BERD) was quick Two main policy strands form the core of present innovation policy. On the one hand, there is a need to improve
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effectively. Operation in an international environment gives the manager access to new markets, additional natural resources, and low-cost-factor endowments. More importantly, it opens up new sources of ideas and knowledge to stimulate future innovation. Above all, global markets provide a vast new source of the scarcest of all corporate resources: management talent. On the other hand, these new opportunities present the challenges of managing in more complex, diverse, and uncertain circumstances
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Keywords: agglomeration; cultural economy; globalization; industrial districts; local economic development; place marketing Over the past decade or so, the industrial profile of many countries has tilted perceptibly in the direction of a new creative or cultural economy. In some countries, indeed, the cultural economy is now one of the major frontiers of expansion of output and employment. This turn of events is actually one facet of the wider resurgence of a so-called new economy generally in
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investment in the T-A industry in the offshore countries has allowed the offshore QR to become increasingly feasible. This changing facet of QR may spell out more lucrative opportunities for Japanese "apparel firms", which have predominantly in-house creative and marketing functions, to widen the scope and the scale of their fashion business operations, since the economic upgrading in the Pacific Rim will create a huge consumer market that shares similar fashion trends as in the Japanese market. However
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can understand this character because of the large pitch range and the dynamic variety available in the expression of the piano, and the possibilities found in the sonorities of the piano explored by some of the great composers in their harmonic innovations. The pianoforte as a romantic instrument “foreshadowed the breakdown of classical order in music” (Burgess). However, the piano became less of a prevalent force
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A community of knowledge practice is a constituency of many different characters. This community helps to harness the creativity and promote cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for innovation (Formica 2003: Chapter 2; Amidon, 2003). The notion of communities of practice originated with John Seely Brown, the director of Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown suggested that "At the simplest level, they are a small group of people who’ve worked together over a period of time… not a
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review of innovation research in tourism Anne-Mette Hjalager University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrsvej 9-10, DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 January 2009 Accepted 31 August 2009 Keywords: Innovation Innovation systems Knowledge Clusters Policy a b s t r a c t Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus on the topic of innovation in tourism. This article reviews the research contributions. Various categories of innovation – product
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French innovation clusters: The construction of collaboration Ludivine Calamela, b, Christian Defélixa, b, c, Thierry Picqd, , and Didier Retoura, b, c a Université de Grenoble, France b CERAG UMR 5820, France c IAE, France d EM LYON Business School, France Received 1 August 2010; revised 23 February 2011; accepted 10 March 2011. Available online 7 April 2011. Abstract Having received considerable attention from central government and local authorities, French innovation clusters
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