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  1. 1. External Knowledge Acquisition And Transfer From Innovation Clusters To Central R&D Unit : The Mediating Role Of R&D Listening Posts As Technological Gatekeepers

    Magister-uppsats, Handelshögskolan BBS

    Författare :Michael Ahlgrimm; [2009]
    Nyckelord :open innovation; absorptive capacity; technological gatekeeper; international R D;

    Sammanfattning : Over the last few decades, the industrialized world in general and the automobile industry in particular was hit by immense changes which strongly influence the management of R&D. Trends such as globalization and sharp competition on worldwide open markets, increasing product complexity in order to meet the customers’ desires for more variety and individualization, technology fusion and cross industry innovations, high level of technological and competitive uncertainty, increasing pressure to reduce R&D budgets, and shorter time to market and reduced innovation cycles in consequence of rising competition, force companies to source external knowledge and to bring in and exploit outside-in innovations instead of reinventing them their selves. LÄS MER