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Policy instruments for public procurement of innovation: Choice, design and assessment
(Elsevier, 2013-10-24)
Public procurement is increasingly seen as an important potential instrument of innovation policy. However, policy design has been underpinned largely by anecdotal evidence and without a clear theoretical or empirical basis ...
Competitive intelligence programmes at French Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
(De Montfort University, 2009-11)
Over the last ten years France has implemented regional programmes to increase the awareness of, and change attitudes towards, the Competitive Intelligence (CI) practices of enterprises. The emphasis has been on Small and ...
Entrepreneurial Characteristics in STEM: A Higher Education Institution Perspective
(ACPI, 2016-09)
The benefit of entrepreneurship and innovation within the STEM subjects is not in question, with national
bodies and academic research, expanding within the topic (RAEng 2015). The existence of entrepreneurship
education ...
Causes of competitive analysis failure: Understanding and responding to problems at the individual level.
(2009)
It ought to be a fairly safe assumption that a CI analyst would want to perform the analysis task and execute their responsibilities successfully over time. Such competencies should come with added experience on the job, ...
Are e-portfolios an asset to learning and placement?
(ASET, 2008-04)
We asked the question “what is the added value for the student learning experience, of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) as an innovative means of portfolio assessment?”
We answered the question using an holistic ...
The contribution of CI to the strategic decision making process: Empirical study of the European pharmaceutical industry.
(Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals., 2006)
The practice of Competitive Intelligence (CI) is common in the US pharmaceutical industry but there is little evidence to suggest that the European industry has adopted CI to the same extent. This study reports on a specific ...
Contradictory yet coherent? Inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change
(Sage, 2015-05-01)
In this paper, we study to what extent inconsistent feedback signals about performance affect firm adaptive behavior in terms of changes made to research-and-development (R&D) investments. We argue that inconsistency in ...
Competitor intelligence for the smaller enterprise.
(De Montfort University, 1999-06)
The practice of Competitor Intelligence is well established in the USA where it is estimated that 80% of all firms utilise it to their competitive advantage. Within the UK however, it is only gradually becoming a part of ...
Competitive Intelligence and marketing strategy formulation.
(2004)
The area of competitive intelligence (CI) and its working relationship with marketing strategy formulation (MSF) has received limited in-depth research. Previous reports and studies on this relationship have largely ignored ...
Characteristics of competitive intelligence practice in R&D driven firms: Evidence from the UK pharmaceutical industry.
(2008)
The greatest proportion of Competitive Intelligence (CI) practice in the pharmaceutical industry is located within the R&D function (Halliday et al 1992). This paper reports on the results of an empirical study into the ...