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High-tech companies - the impact of organisational culture and social networks on knowledge transfer
The research studies the relationship of organizational culture, social capital and knowledge transfer in the context of small and medium-sized high-tech companies. Based on the assumptions and premises that have been thoroughly dealt with the program group and basic project a questionnaire for semi-structured interview has been designed, by which eleven interviews with...
Cross-border interaction survey: cross-border business interaction and the role of cross-border institutions in the European Union
The objective of this research was to explore hampering effects for cross-border business interaction and the role of cross-border institutions. We analysed the data to investigate the relation between factors that define cross-border business interaction and innovativeness. Therefore, we operationalized thirty-five factors which potentially influence cross-border business...
Quick Scan Co-creation in Higher Education
In this tool co-creation is regarded as a collaborative process, where students, lecturers and working field professionals from outside the university jointly develop innovative products, processes or knowledge. In co-creation all stakeholders equally contribute to the collaborative process, and aims to create beneficial outcomes for each participant. Based on peerreviewed...
Local and regional developmental cores
The survey is focused on developmental potentials, innovative actors and support institutions (incubators and technological parks), their formation, mutual interaction and communication in particular from the perspective of knowledge transfer and on the role of civil society and NGOs in this framework. The hypothesis is that density of these organizations (NGOs) is important...
Impact of Organizational Learning and Innovations on Performance
The aim of this research was to present and test a model of innovativeness improvement based on the impact of organizational learning culture. The elements of an organizational learning process that were used are information acquisition, information interpretation, and behavioral and cognitive changes. Within the competing values framework OLC covers some aspects of all four...
Innovation System of Finnish Municipalities 2011
The questionnaire survey studied whether Finnish municipalities (local government) had innovation systems that supported their development and regeneration. Municipality top management teams, and chairpersons of municipal councils or executives were selected as respondents. The study was conducted by the Research Unit for Urban and Regional Development Studies SENTE in the...
Practices of Working Life 2012: Employers
The survey focused on organisational practices and organisational change in Finland. Data were collected from private and public sector employers through telephone interviews. The contents of the survey were influenced by the MEADOW (Measuring the Dynamics of Organisations and Work) tool created to collect data on change at work and in organisations at the European level,...
LATINNO Dataset on Democratic Innovations in Latin America
The LATINNO Dataset comprises data on 3700 democratic innovations evolved in 18 countries in Latin America. The data reflects the context, the institutional design, and the impact of democratic innovations from 1990 to 2020.
Entwicklung und Validierung eines Diagnosewerkzeugs zur Erfassung der Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen aus arbeitsorientierter Perspektive mit einem dazugehörigen Vorgehensmodell
Im vorliegenden Projekt wurde das Instrument InnoKenn als intern einsetzbares Werkzeug für Unternehmen in seiner Funktions- und Leistungsfähigkeit überprüft und auf Praxistauglichkeit getestet. Grundlage der Instrumententwicklung war ein arbeitsorientiertes Verständnis der Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. Es geht davon aus, dass die Bedingungen, unter denen Menschen in...
Entwicklung und Validierung eines Diagnosewerkzeugs zur Erfassung der Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen aus arbeitsorientierter Perspektive mit einem dazugehörigen Vorgehensmodell
Im vorliegenden Projekt wurde das Instrument InnoKenn als intern einsetzbares Werkzeug für Unternehmen in seiner Funktions- und Leistungsfähigkeit überprüft und auf Praxistauglichkeit getestet. Grundlage der Instrumententwicklung war ein arbeitsorientiertes Verständnis der Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. Es geht davon aus, dass die Bedingungen, unter denen Menschen in...
OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators, 1981-2019
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Main Science and Technology Indicators database contains 151 main data series selected from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Scientific and Technological Indicators database for 30 OECD member countries and nine non-member countries. The majority of these series...
National Data on New Interwar Manufacturing Plants and Extensions, 1919-1938
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aims and objectives of the research project from which this dataset arose were:
(1) To examine patterns of plant location throughout Britain over the period 1932-38;
(2) To examine patterns of plant location in the Greater London region over the interwar period;
(3) To explore the extent and...
Attitudes of Industrial Clerical Workers to White Collar Unionisation, 1972-1973
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and reference groups of clerical employees in different employment situations. The firms were selected to give as wide a range as possible of different employment and trade union situations. The firms were given fictitious names.Main...
Rural Industry Survey, 1987-1988; Employees Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to ascertain training needs and suggest how gaps might be filled for the following groups in Scotland:
rural Development and Training agents;
rural workers, including family members, employed and self-employed;
non-employed, whether registered unemployed or not, of working...
Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The principal emphasis of the programme was to examine the attitude of the population to changes in the employment structure of British society, including occupational structure changes in the gender composition of the workforce, increased unemployment and increases in the use of casual employment. These...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-1989
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1990
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes...
Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, 1990
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) series was designed to contribute to a better understanding of the processes which underlie employment relationships by making available for the first time large, systematic and dispassionate evidence about a broad range of industrial relations and...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-1991; Cumulative File
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes...
Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008 assesses the use, application and role of advanced technologies in the lives of disabled people. Although disabled people are excited by the potential benefits of using new advanced technological devices at home, research has shown that one...
Higher Education Institution Knowledge and its Impact on Regional Competitiveness, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project focused on a regional comparison of university knowledge flows to the business community and other institutions both within and external to the region in which particular universities are based. It analyses the impact of university knowledge in relation to the type of knowledge, the flow...
Contemporary Data on the Diffusion and Productivity of Coal Mechanisation in Britain to 1939
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A common feature of Britain's staple industries during the sixty years to 1939 was a rejection of the new production technologies adopted by their main overseas competitors. This project investigated the extent to which 'path dependence' accounts for the failure of these industries to adopt the new...
Impact of New Technology on the Communication of Parliamentary Information, 2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary and devolved assembly information to the general public. It consisted of two distinct stages:
Stage 1) A series of semi-structured interviews with representatives of the public information...
Socio-technical Systems and Call Centres : a Case Study Investigation, 1999-2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Following a growth in the number of people employed in call centres, defined as those workers who simultaneously use a telephone and computer, this research project set out to investigate the way social and technical systems are used in their work organisation. The research focused particularly on the...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Electronic Commerce, 2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The proposed objectives for the study were to explore the use and barriers to use of electronic commerce by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Great Britain. By means of a postal questionnaire, the study sought to understand:
which SMEs are using electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications and...
Images of the World in the Year 2000; Great Britain International, 1967
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This inquiry into the views of the year 2000 held by the younger generation took place under the auspices of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, established at Vienna, which was founded by UNESCO and which is a division of the International Social...
National Employer Skills Survey, 1999-2009: Secure Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) collects data about the skills of the workforce of firms in England. A separate, but similar survey is conducted in Scotland (the Scottish Employer Skills Survey, UK Data Archive SN 6857).
The English survey first started in 1999 and was known as the Employers...
Into the 80s : New Society Survey, 1979
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To explore social attitudes in Britain at the end of the 1970's and expectations of life in the next decade.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Whether Britain is a reasonably good place to live in, whether changes in the past ten years have been for the worse or for the better, expectations for...
Survey of 400 Locally Controlled Manufacturing Establishments in Merseyside and Greater Manchester, 1979-1980
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to examine the financial standing and policies of locally controlled manufacturing establishments in Merseyside and Greater Manchester during 1979-1980. The study aimed to examine the 'birth process' of newer firms and to assess the knowledge and effect of central and...
Future in Britain Survey, 1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this survey was to study the perceptions of the future held by the public (those between 15 and 44 years) and by the `elite' (those in positions of power and influence in Britain). The survey was conducted in 1970 for the Social Science Research Council (now Economic and Social Science...