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Factors Hampering Innovation Activities – Case Study from the Czech Republic
Get PDFThe article looks at the importance of innovation in company strategy. It presents paths to a formulating strategy focused on innovation and approaches to value. It also introduces the main barriers to an enterprise’s innovative activities and their types. It gives the key results of research undertaken in the Czech Republic by the Czech Statistical Office on the topic of innovation
¿Es Compatible la Educación a Distancia con la Pedagogía Ignaciana?
Get PDFA partir de la difusión de la escritura y la aparición revolucionaria de la imprenta, a lo largo del tiempo, los educadores han ido incor-porando distintas herramientas, para agregar valor al proceso educativo, pero sin duda la de mayor impacto, ha sido internet y el desarrollo de innumerables aplicaciones educativas. Bajo ese punto de vista, analizaremos el modelo pedagógico en el cual se centra la educación a distancia y cómo se interrelacionan los tres polos de la tríada didáctica: docente/estudiante/conocimiento o saber, mediante los procesos que están implícitos en el acto educativo Por otro lado, la Pedagogía Ignaciana es un concepto amplio que ofrece una visión cristiana del mundo y del ser humano, una dirección humanista para el proceso educativo y un método personalizado, crítico y participativo, cuyo comienzo podemos situarlo en el siglo XVI con la Ratio Studio-rum. La meta es ayudar a formar el ser humano a través del proceso educativo formal y no formal. En el presente paper se estudia si son compatibles las nuevas tendencias de la educación virtual o a distancia, que se podrían sintetizar en masifica-ción, diversidad y combinación de estudio-trabajo y la Pedagogía Ignaciana de tradición centenaria, pero que siempre ha incorporado los nuevos desarrollos de las ciencias y las tecnologías
Knowledge Organisations and High-Tech Regional Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina
Get PDFIn the globally and knowledge based economy, the universities and other knowledge organisations are valued for their ability to contribute to the regional innovation processes. This is particularly relevant for the developing countries in South America since their R&D spending is highly concentrated on the public knowledge infrastructure. However, there are few studies examining the role of knowledge organizations at regional level in Latin America. The proposed study aims to analyse the role played by knowledge organisations in the formation of a high-tech Regional Innovation Systems in Argentina. This country has a number of attractive features relative to the positive evolution of its R&D spending and the recent implementation of a policy that promotes cooperation between firms and knowledge organisations among high-tech sectors. As evidenced in developed regions, the organisations under study play a key role in the promotion of a high-tech Regional Innovation Systems. However, this prominent role is not based on those local factors identified in the literature, such as organisational and institutional local assets, but on national science and technology policies and individual initiatives conducted by the faculties involved
Shared Leadership and Team Creativity: A Social Network Analysis in Engineering Design Teams
Get PDFThis research explores the relationship between shared leadership and creativity in engineering design teams. To do this, a social network perspective was adopted using four measures to assess key elements of shared leadership networks. These are (a) network density, (b) centralization, (c) efficiency and (d) strength. Data was collected from a sample of 22 engineering design teams who adopt a shared leadership approach. Our results support previous findings that the density of a shared leadership network is positively related to team creativity. In contrast, we learned that centralization exerts a negative influence on it. Moreover, while we found that there is no evidence to support a positive correlation between efficiency and team creativity, we demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between strength and team creativity in a shared leadership network. These findings are important because they add to the academic debate in the shared leadership area and provide valuable insights for managers
Las Vinculaciones Establecidas por las Empresas Industriales Uruguayas y su Influencia sobre sus Actividades de Innovación: el Caso de la Universidad y de Otros Agentes
Get PDFEn la actual economía globalizada a la innovación se la considera como un elemento clave de la competitividad de las firmas. La literatu-ra económica ha puesto de manifiesto que la productividad está fuertemente influenciada por la capacidad de innovación que tienen las empresas u organizaciones de una región o nación. Pero la innovación es impredecible tanto en términos de procesos como de resultados, lo que hace muy difícil definir y seleccionar políticas activas de incentivo. Es por eso que, tratar de comprender cómo innovan las empresas en una realidad concreta puede ayudar a mejorar no solo la comprensión del fenómeno, sino que también puede contribuir a generar conocimientos útiles para poder diseñar políticas de incentivos más adecuadas y eficientes. En el presente paper se estudian las relaciones que las empresas establecen con los diferentes agentes del Sistema Nacional de Innovación (S.N.I.) y cómo éstas afectan las actividades de innovación que realizan. El fundamento de este enfoque se basa en la idea de que la innovación es un proceso abierto e interactivo y que parece estar circunscrito a determinadas situaciones. En este sentido, las políticas de innovación han reconocido que las re-laciones que se establecen con las universidades y los centros tecnológicos y/o de investigación son claves para el fomento de la innovación industrial
¿Cuáles son los Rasgos que Han de Caracterizar el Perfil de los Egresados de las Escuelas de Negocios Jesuitas Según sus Directivos?
Get PDFEl objetivo de este artículo es estudiar un elemento central de la misión de las escuelas de negocios de UNIJES (Universidades Jesuitas en España), concretamente: cuáles son los rasgos que han de caracterizar el perfil de los egresados de dichas escuelas a juicio de las personas con responsabilidades de gobierno (rectores y directores). Para ello, se utilizará la metodología del Concept Mapping, técnica que permite transformar las ideas/opiniones de un grupo de expertos (datos primarios de un focus group) en datos que pueden ser ponderados, agrupados y representados mediante mapas conceptuales. Los resultados revelan cómo se valoran y ponderan los rasgos del perfil de los egresados por parte de los citados directivos, y cómo se agrupan en cuatro clústeres: competencias profesionales (1), competencias intrapersonales (2), competencias interpersonales (3) y responsabilidad social /sentido de trascendencia (4), que son analizados e interpretados y que, además, permiten una visión comparativa con el paradigma educativo de las universidades jesuitas (Ledesma-Kolvenbach).Los resultados de esta investigación pueden considerarse como una aportación original y novedosa acerca del pensamiento y valoración de autoridades académicas de este nivel sobre un aspecto esencial para las escuelas de negocios jesuitas, dado su carácter de instituciones mission-driven. La metodología utilizada también es una novedad en el sector de la educación universitaria y de las escuelas de negocio
The Role of the Jesuit University in the Evolving “Innovation Triangle” of Business, Government, and Academia
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to suggest a role for Jesuit universities to play in the evolving collaboration among business, government, and academia. Specifically, this paper will identify an “innovation triangle” whose aim is the creation of innovative ways to meet the challenges of a global economy. For purposes of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools 2015 Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, the subject area is “Jesuit inspiration at the university level: business challenges.” Our methodology consists of evaluating the role of Jesuit universities through the case study of a conference organized by the presenters of this paper. Although not actually held, the conference was scheduled to take place at Unisinos Business School in São Leopoldo, Brazil. Entitled “Doing Brazil in Brazil,” it involved a new structure in which participants were to work alongside government officials, university faculty, and students while exploring the ethical dimensions of foreign investment and business in Brazil. This was to have been done in conjunction with a techpark adjacent to the university
Social Networks as Enablers of Enterprise Creativity: Evidence from Portuguese Firms and Users
Get PDFThe present work analyzes the profiles of social networks’ users, individuals and enterprises in Algarve (Portugal), having accomplished online questionnaires. Samples of 230 users and 70 firms were collected. According to data obtained there are different behaviors. Users’ results highlight the need of harnessing the potential of recruitment and business projects through social networks, as searching for knowledge, communication and professional relations are expressive. Firms’ results reveal two types of social networks’ use: 1) knowledge search, interact with customers, launch new products; and 2) potential for marketing. Users’ desire of expressing own ideas and being creative had low importance. In social networks they auscultate more about what others are doing than revealing own aspirations. Here firms can act in order to shape users’ attitudes and preferences to their creativity. Thus, enterprises can use the first level of social networks (knowledge and product-customer interaction) in order to enhance the second level (marketing and innovation)
Impact of Image and Satisfaction on Marketing Innovation
Get PDFColombia is a country that has achieved significant tourism growth in recent years. However, both research and empirical evidence about its tourism development is very limited. Marketing innovation in tourism enterprises is one of the keys to this country maintaining positive tourism development. This empirical study analyzed marketing innovation in 364 of Colombia´s tourism companies. The findings show that “satisfaction" in terms of application of innovative marketing strategies that improve customer satisfaction and "image" in terms of application of innovative marketing strategies that help to improve image of company´s products and services have a significant relationship with marketing innovation of Colombia´s tourist enterprise
Associations for Disruptiveness: The Pirate Bay vs. Spotify
Get PDFMost studies on disruptive innovations adopt technology-centric assumptions when explaining how industries are affected by a technology’s creative destruction. This paper argues that the power of a technology lies in how it performatively associates with the cultural and social norms of the wider society. Hence, a technology is not disruptive or sustaining in itself but is potentially a productive outcome of network linkages with other social and material elements. To illustrate this claim, two digital music services will be analyzed, respectively a misfit and a maverick both challenging mainstream providers of music – The Pirate Bay and Spotify – in relation to each other and how they are positioned toward the transformation of the music industry as a whole