Pacap - Acquisition
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Education level of the workforce |
Resource |
1. Employees hold adequate qualifications to work on innovation projects. |
Positive attitudes toward change |
Resource |
2. Your company highly values the attitudes that promote internal changes. |
Investment in R&D |
Resource |
3. Your company highly invests in research, development, and innovation activities. |
Cooperation in innovation with other firms |
Resource |
4. Your company usually collaborates with various institutions in innovation projects. |
Monitoring of knowledge |
Mechanism |
5. Your company systematically searches relevant external information for the business. |
Pacap - Assimilation
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Relevant prior knowledge of employees |
Resource |
6. Employees dominate technologies used by your company. |
Relevant prior knowledge of managers |
Resource |
7. Managers hold adequate knowledge to perform their duties. |
Interfaces between functions |
Mechanism |
8. Your company usually forms work teams involving people from different departments |
Social integration (formal and informal) |
Mechanism |
9. Your company usually promotes practices to integrate people from different departments. |
Involvement with external knowledge |
Mechanism |
10. The employees are always encouraged to participate in scientific events. |
External technology |
Mechanism |
11. Your company usually acquires technologies from other companies. |
Racap - Transformation
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Connectivity (trust, cooperation, interaction) |
Resource |
12. Employees of your company cooperate spontaneously. |
Training in innovation projects |
Mechanism |
13. Employees participate in training programs focused on facilitating innovation. |
Communication networks |
Mechanism |
14. In your company, information easily circulates through different hierarchical levels. |
Job/tasks rotation |
Mechanism |
15. Your company usually practices job and task rotation among employees. |
Internal information for innovation |
Mechanism |
16. Your company usually promotes the exchange of knowledge to innovate. |
Racap - Exploitation
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Existence of internal R&D |
Resource |
17. Your company has structured activities of research and development (R&D). |
Formalization |
Mechanism |
18. Routines and processes toward innovation are driven by clear and explicit rules. |
Exploration of new knowledge |
Resource |
19. Your company responds quickly to changes in the environment using new knowledge. |
Application of experience |
Resource |
20. In technology strategy, your company applies accumulated knowledge. |
Patent development |
Resource |
21. Your company has the capability to incorporate technological knowledge in patents. |
Technological proactivity |
Resource |
22. Your company seeks to innovate ahead of its competitors. |
External source of knowledge
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Knowledge of research centers to innovate |
Scientific |
23. Your company often uses knowledge from research centers to innovate. |
Scientific conferences to innovate |
Scientific |
24. Your company often uses information from scientific conferences to innovate. |
Knowledge of suppliers to innovate |
Industrial |
25. Your company often uses the knowledge of its suppliers to innovate. |
Knowledge of customers to innovate |
Industrial |
26. Your company often uses the knowledge of its customers to innovate. |
Knowledge of competitors to innovate |
Industrial |
27. Your company often uses information about its competitors to innovate. |
Information of business meetings to innovate |
Scientific |
28. Your company often uses information acquired in business meetings to innovate. |
Information of patents database |
Scientific |
29. Your company often uses information acquired in patents database to innovate. |
Innovation
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Introduction of new product in the market |
Innovation |
30. Your company frequently introduces new or clearly improved products in the market. |
Introduction of new processes on the market |
Innovation |
31. Your company often adopts unpublished or clearly improved processes. |
Cooperation with other companies |
Innovation |
32. Your company often cooperates with the client to develop technologies. |
Interest in cooperating to develop technologies |
Innovation |
33. Your company is interested in developing technologies with clients. |
Obtaining technology licensing |
Innovation |
34. Your company has obtained technology licensing from another institution. |