Tesis doctoral de Andrea Bikfalvi
Innovation, entrepreneurship and outsourcing represent the backbone of the present dissertation. The use of knowledge in business environments symbolizes the overlapping area of these concepts. Empirical evidences come mainly from business world, but they are complemented with academia, as one of the main scientific knowledge provider in the current society whose final objective is wealth creation and socioeconomic welfare. The main objective of the present work is contributing to different areas of reaserch. First, innovation management in terms of organizational innovation, contemplating its importance and challenges for its measurement on large scale surveys. Then, a particular example of organizational concept – teamwork- in production is analyzed and the matter of its determinants is tackled. Second, the entrepreneurial transformation of a non-elite university is followed up, since its beginnings including the design phase up to present contemplating its functionality and efficiency, compared to other european public research institutions. Third, the difficulties and barriers in terms of r&d outsourcing, in general, and with universities, in particular are analyzed on a sample of gazelle companies, as well as their decision to make-or-buy. Finally, a summary of the results, conclusions and particular implications end this work.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Innovation, entrepreneurship and outsourcing. essays on the use of knowledge in business environments«
- Título de la tesis: Innovation, entrepreneurship and outsourcing. essays on the use of knowledge in business environments
- Autor: Andrea Bikfalvi
- Universidad: Girona
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 14/09/2007
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Jaume Valls Passola
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: Juan José Jiménez Moreno
- Steffen Kinkel (vocal)
- Jussi Kantola (vocal)
- Marc Saéz Gifra (vocal)