Some aspects regarding the concept “Research for Business”

Sävescu, Dan

doi:10.3926/jiem.2010.v3n2.p337-352

“…Some reactions are very rough and they can sometimes be conditioned by an exaggerated self-critical attitude of those interviewed. Anyway, the general conclusion is that, at this point, one cannot talk about authentic quality culture in the Romanian universities [6].…”

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“…This is a snapshot of economic activity, both at micro, and macro levels, and the extent to which companies are in the competition and are competitive. Functioning as a binding element and a balance between the potential, resources and costs, research-development networks support SMEs in their efforts [6].…”

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Importance of Intellectual Property in Technologic Transfer

Savescu¹

2020

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Paper presents some aspects regarding the protection of innovative ideas. All the research results of people involved in this activity must be protected by law against counterfeiting and piracy. It should be borne in mind that there are issues of novelty and license papers / dissertation of students, not only at the level of doctoral training. So university policies on intellectual property knowledge should include acquiring of knowledge ever since the II-III study year.

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“…Incubators achieve favourable outcomes firstly by promoting the concept of entrepreneurship (Al-Mubaraki and Busler, 2012;Madichie, 2010) followed by enabling and facilitating innovative ideas to be transformed into an opportunity (Al-Mubaraki and Busler, 2012;NBIA, 2013d;Savescu, 2010). However, it is not just the ideas that need nurturing; the firm itself needs to be developed and its growth accelerated utilising the incubator's resources (Al-Mubaraki & Hamad, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

An affordance lens on the influence of incubators on firms’ strategy development

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<p>Business incubators provide resources to help create successful new ventures (Hackett & Dilts, 2004b). However little is known about how the strategies of the incubated firms develop and the specific role of incubators in this process. While incubators have received increased attention in academic literature in recent years, most of this research has focused on the economic benefits of incubators, the firms’ survival rates, and on the incubators’ provisions to firms. There has been minimal attention on how incubators influence what firms actually do and about strategy development in new entrepreneurial firms. This thesis explores how incubators influence firms’ strategy developments. The theory of affordances (TOA) recognises that objects allow for varying opportunities for action (Gibson, 1977) and provides the theoretical lens for this study. This lens was chosen due to its inherent acknowledgement of the complexity of relationships between objects, actors and the environment. First the TOA, incubator, and strategy development literature are examined. This examination concludes with the development of a conceptual model to operationalise incubators’ provisions and firms’ strategy developments. The conceptual model highlights that the relationship between incubators’ provisions and firms’ strategy developments may not simply be one of cause and effect; it takes into account how the affordances of the provisions are perceived and realised, and how this is related to the incubators’ influence on the firms’ strategy development. The conceptual model also identifies contextual factors that could impact this process. A mixed methodology approach was employed which involved in-depth interviews and a survey. The participants were from all six incubators that were in the New Zealand Government’s incubator support programme and included both the incubators and their firms, enabling a triangulated analysis of this primarily qualitative data. The application of the TOA aided the contribution to incubator knowledge. It was found that firms’ judged the value of provisions differently depending on use, and the affordances arising from the provisions varied in scope and changed over time. The firm’s product type, governance structure, duration-factors and the breadth of focus of the incubators, may be associated with how the firms perceived and realised affordances from the incubators’ provisions and, in turn, how their strategies were influenced. In the process of applying the TOA in organisational studies three underlying themes emerged regarding its application; the specificity of affordances, the substitutability of objects and path dependency. Based on these three themes, contributions to the TOA are also proposed. Knowledge gained from this study could inspire further use of the TOA to gain a greater understanding of its application, particularly in organisational settings. From a practice standpoint, knowledge gained should lead to enhancements and greater efficiencies in the incubation sector.</p>

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“…Incubators achieve favourable outcomes firstly by promoting the concept of entrepreneurship (Al-Mubaraki and Busler, 2012;Madichie, 2010) followed by enabling and facilitating innovative ideas to be transformed into an opportunity (Al-Mubaraki and Busler, 2012;NBIA, 2013d;Savescu, 2010). However, it is not just the ideas that need nurturing; the firm itself needs to be developed and its growth accelerated utilising the incubator's resources (Al-Mubaraki & Hamad, 2013).…”

Section: The Purpose Of Incubatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An affordance lens on the influence of incubators on firms’ strategy development

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<p>Business incubators provide resources to help create successful new ventures (Hackett & Dilts, 2004b). However little is known about how the strategies of the incubated firms develop and the specific role of incubators in this process. While incubators have received increased attention in academic literature in recent years, most of this research has focused on the economic benefits of incubators, the firms’ survival rates, and on the incubators’ provisions to firms. There has been minimal attention on how incubators influence what firms actually do and about strategy development in new entrepreneurial firms. This thesis explores how incubators influence firms’ strategy developments. The theory of affordances (TOA) recognises that objects allow for varying opportunities for action (Gibson, 1977) and provides the theoretical lens for this study. This lens was chosen due to its inherent acknowledgement of the complexity of relationships between objects, actors and the environment. First the TOA, incubator, and strategy development literature are examined. This examination concludes with the development of a conceptual model to operationalise incubators’ provisions and firms’ strategy developments. The conceptual model highlights that the relationship between incubators’ provisions and firms’ strategy developments may not simply be one of cause and effect; it takes into account how the affordances of the provisions are perceived and realised, and how this is related to the incubators’ influence on the firms’ strategy development. The conceptual model also identifies contextual factors that could impact this process. A mixed methodology approach was employed which involved in-depth interviews and a survey. The participants were from all six incubators that were in the New Zealand Government’s incubator support programme and included both the incubators and their firms, enabling a triangulated analysis of this primarily qualitative data. The application of the TOA aided the contribution to incubator knowledge. It was found that firms’ judged the value of provisions differently depending on use, and the affordances arising from the provisions varied in scope and changed over time. The firm’s product type, governance structure, duration-factors and the breadth of focus of the incubators, may be associated with how the firms perceived and realised affordances from the incubators’ provisions and, in turn, how their strategies were influenced. In the process of applying the TOA in organisational studies three underlying themes emerged regarding its application; the specificity of affordances, the substitutability of objects and path dependency. Based on these three themes, contributions to the TOA are also proposed. Knowledge gained from this study could inspire further use of the TOA to gain a greater understanding of its application, particularly in organisational settings. From a practice standpoint, knowledge gained should lead to enhancements and greater efficiencies in the incubation sector.</p>

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Some aspects regarding the concept “Research for Business”

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An affordance lens on the influence of incubators on firms’ strategy development

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