Circular economy and the role of services
The role of services in circular change is more or less hidden or blended with technological considerations. However, the efficiency of implementing circular solutions depends to a large extent on different services and service functions. Furthermore, ...
Competitiveness
Services bring new sources for competitive advantages in both developed and developing economies. Many regions and countries look for smart specialization and diversification strategies that need services to be effective. Services may also help diversification ...
Creative and cultural organizations
In recent years, cultural and creative sectors are at the heart of the creative economy, Organizations in these sectors are knowledge-intensive, based on creativity and talent, and (mostly) offer various types of services. Understanding these services ...
Education
Education is essential for economic and social development. Educational systems need to adapt to new societal challenges by adopting recent technologies and promoting more inclusive and efficient approaches.
We investigate the impact that ...
Human capital and digital technology adoption
Digital skills – both technical and managerial - and new information technologies have become core assets for companies aiming at improving their performance through digital transformations that can augment their customer relations, increase labour ...
Innovation Ecosystem and open collaborative process
Innovation studies are deeply rooted in the business and ecosystems literature (Chesbrough, 2003; Adner, 2017). The research interest is on the increasing understanding of the nature of complex social and material interactions taking place in ecosystems, ...
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Innovation in services and services in innovation
Despite considerable advances in this field, many challenges still remain. This agenda is established by considering the issue of innovation in services in relation to a number of major contemporary challenges, including environmental issues, social ...
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Practice based approach to service innovation
PBI provides a theoretical and empirical understanding of innovation as networking, emergent and social process. Specifically, the research group has a particular focus on issues that emphasize resource integrated and interactive processes, value co-creation, ...
Public service innovation
How innovation in public services can be improved in an age of New Public Governance.
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Service internationalisation and global value chains
While research and theoretical discussion on the role of services in international trade improved significantly, multiple dimensions of services, service functions and their interrelation with manufacturing in international trade, in particular in global ...
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Tourism firms
Tourism represents the most important source of welfare in some countries. Tourism and touristic services have experienced constant evolution and extending diversification over time and their tight link with sustainability (social, environmental, ...