Browsing The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change (Working Papers) by Title
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Fostering University-Industry R&D Collaborations in European Union Countries.
(Whitaker Institute - NUI Galway, 2014-05)This paper advances our understanding of university - industry research and development (R&D) collaborations. These strategic relationships are a dimension of entrepreneurial activity, and they are thus important drivers ... -
Glorified administrators or eminent research leaders: the inhibiting factors that publicly funded principal investigators experience in leading collaborative research projects
(CISC, 2011-07)Publicly funded research continues to be an important and critical source of research funding for Higher Education Institutions, public research organisations and industry with many benefits accruing to the various ... -
A Green Agenda for the Irish Renewable Energy Sector
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The Implementation Of Citizen-Centred E-government: a Stakeholder Viewpoint
(2008-09-26)E-Government provides unprecedented opportunities to improve citize services and achieve cost efficiencies through process change. As a resul implementation models have been developed to support the successfu attainment ... -
Inward foreign investment and the clustering process: the case of the medical technology sector in Ireland
(CISC, 2008-12)This paper investigates how, if at all, inward foreign investment can instigate a clustering process when such investment is initially attracted to a region as a result of targeted public policy rather than the existence ... -
The Irish National Innovation System: Structures, Performance and Challenges
(CISC, 2009-07)This paper deals with three elements of the Irish National Innovation System namely structures, performance and challenges. The paper begins by outlining the policy context and then focuses on technology trajectories and ... -
Knowledge Exchange in Electronic Networks of Practice; Towards a Conceptual Framework
(CISC, 2005-11)The recently developed knowledge-based view of the firm argues that knowledge is the firm's most valuable resource. Within this field of study, informal social networks are rapidly gaining attention as mechanisms which ... -
Labour Relations Practices and Migrant Workers in Ireland
(CISC Working Paper No 22, 2005)The growth of global economic activity has resulted in a world-wide increase in migration. This economic expansion has been welcome but at the same time has brought new challenges. Ireland, once regarded as a country of ... -
Local Clusters and Global Entrepreneurship: The significance of spatial and relational propinquity in new firm formation
(CISC, 2010-10)This paper explores the significance of local proximity for new firm formation in particular industries. Within the literature, entrepreneurs are viewed as critical to industrial cluster formation and development in ... -
Managing tacit and explicit knowledge in organisational teams
(2008)In this article we analyse how tacit and explicit knowledge are managed in teams. Tacit knowledge is located in human persons and it can not be described formally as data or any other form while explicit knowledge is public ... -
Measuring knowledge transfer success by D&M
(2008)DeLone & McLean's success model has been actively used since its first introduction in 1992. In this article the model is extended to describe the success of knowledge sharing in an information system that included a part ... -
National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurship
(2008-09-26)Porter (1990) argues that the future battles for competitiveness will not be fought just between organisations but also between nations. Looking at the nation as the unit of analysis, one way to become more competitive ... -
Network Enabled Capabilities and Competitive Technology Clusters in Ireland
(CISC, 2010-06)The Network approach is a useful heuristic tool that enables us to focus on the network structure, inter-linkages between actors and help determining how the networks change over time. The present study used the network ... -
People Management and innovation in Ireland
(2008-01)The People Management and Innovation survey reports findings from 165 of the top performing organisations in Ireland. The picture that emerges from the analysis suggests a moderate to low take-up of a full-blown High ... -
Rethinking the Role of the IS Function
(2008-09-26)This paper proposes that IS managers need to review what they regard as their core competencies if they are to be a valuable asset to organisations in the 1990s. The authors start by questioning whether the IS function ... -
The Role of MNCs in Knowledge Accumulation, Absorption and Utilization in Indigenous Irish firms: A case study of the Galway Medical Technology Cluster
(CISC, 2010-06)This study examines the multifaceted role of MNCs in capabilities development of indigenous firms within a high-tech industrial cluster. The paper explores how MNCs and indigenous firms are involved in producing related ... -
The role of work-life balance policies in healthcare human resources management
(2011)Currently a European wide study has surveyed some 1,406 nurses in 115 units within over 30 hospitals as part of a longer study. This study looks at nurses' qualifications, productivity, their working environment as well ... -
Tight Clusters or Loose Networks? The Critical Role of Inward FDI in Cluster Creation
(CISC, 2010-03)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in instigating a clustering process. In particular, the study examines the situation in which FDI is initially attracted to a ...