Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-04-13T12:02:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010 - Deyves Mendes Paraguassu.pdf: 596082 bytes, checksum: dd55b53bb62a481a21c0961845d58021 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-13T12:02:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010 - Deyves Mendes Paraguassu.pdf: 596082 bytes, checksum: dd55b53bb62a481a21c0961845d58021 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-10 / With the increased access to information, technologies and markets; the supply options are magnified as well, forcing the selection of a supplier that best contributes to the organizational success. In this sense, selecting the right supplier can mean the difference between success and failure. Bio-Manguinhos is in the market for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease through vaccines, diagnostic reagents and biopharmaceuticals. Being a public institution, it shares with the rest of the system the difficulty in obtaining public funds for investment and the development of products may take more than 20 years. Given this scenario, the search for partners to minimize development time of a product and share the cost of investment becomes interesting. In this context, this work aims to develop a tool that helps Bio-Manguinhos in selecting suppliers which contribute to the development and manufacture of new products. So, there were two stages of interviews with the board of Bio-Manguinhos: the first with the Deputy Directors, where the relevant criteria for selecting suppliers for new products were identified; the second stage was conducted with the Director, where the criteria identified by the Deputy Directors were confirmed and a method of multicriteria analysis, AHP - Analytic Hierarchy Process was applied to assign weights to these criteria. Thus, we created a tool with the criteria considered relevant and their representativeness within a context that seeks to assist the organization to select suppliers for new products. The results show that the relevant criteria and their order are: level of product development, compatibility with the industrial park, compliance with regulatory requirements, product performance, strength of the company and cost. This shows that the criteria closest to organizational strategy have a greater representativeness. The criteria identified in this study, in their essence, are not new; they are well known and mentioned by other researchers. Nevertheless, as in all decision-making, especially the multicriteria, every organization seeks to identify the important variables for a given decision-making and that choice is not necessarily the best one for other organizations. / Com o aumento do acesso a informa??es, tecnologias e mercados, as op??es de fornecimento s?o ampliadas, tornando necess?ria a sele??o de um fornecedor que melhor contribua para o sucesso organizacional. Nesse sentido, selecionar o fornecedor certo pode significar a diferen?a entre o sucesso e o insucesso. Bio-Manguinhos atua no mercado de preven??o, diagn?stico e tratamento de doen?as, por meio de vacinas, reativos para diagn?stico e biof?rmacos. Por ser uma institui??o p?blica, compartilha com o restante da m?quina p?blica a dificuldade em obter recursos para investimento e o desenvolvimento de seus produtos pode levar mais de 20 anos. Diante desse cen?rio, a busca por parcerias para minimizar o tempo de desenvolvimento de um produto e compartilhar os custos de investimento se mostra interessante. Neste contexto, este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver uma ferramenta que auxilie Bio-Manguinhos a selecionar fornecedores que contribuir?o para o desenvolvimento e produ??o de novos produtos. Para tanto, foram realizadas duas etapas de entrevistas com a diretoria de Bio-Manguinhos: a primeira com os vice-diretores, onde foram identificados os crit?rios relevantes para a sele??o de fornecedores para novos produtos; a segunda etapa foi realizada com o diretor, onde foram confirmados os crit?rios identificados pelos vice-diretores e utilizado um m?todo de an?lise multicriterial, AHP ? Processo de An?lise Hier?rquica, para atribuir pesos a esses crit?rios. Dessa forma, foi criada uma ferramenta com os crit?rios considerados relevantes e suas respectivas representatividades dentro de um mesmo contexto, que busca auxiliar a organiza??o a selecionar seus fornecedores para novos produtos. Os resultados mostram que os crit?rios relevantes e sua ordem s?o os seguintes: n?vel de desenvolvimento do produto, compatibilidade com o parque industrial, cumprimento de exig?ncias regulat?rias, rendimento do produto, solidez da empresa e custo. Isso mostra que crit?rios mais pr?ximos a estrat?gia organizacional possuem uma representatividade maior. Os crit?rios identificados, em sua ess?ncia, n?o s?o crit?rios novos, s?o conhecidos e mencionados por outros pesquisadores. No entanto, como em toda tomada de decis?o, especialmente as multicriteriais, cada organiza??o busca identificar as vari?veis importantes para uma determinada tomada de decis?o e essa escolha n?o necessariamente ? a melhor para outras organiza??es.

Includes bibliograhical references (leaves 239-251) Concerned with the influence that the production of innovative goods has on the economic growth rate of a country. Proposes that amongst the developed economies, the higher the level of production of innovative goods within a country, the higher the GDP growth rate, all else being equal.

Includes bibliograhical references (leaves 239-251) / x, 251 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Concerned with the influence that the production of innovative goods has on the economic growth rate of a country. Proposes that amongst the developed economies, the higher the level of production of innovative goods within a country, the higher the GDP growth rate, all else being equal. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Economics, 2001

Thesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (65 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm.) in City Campus Collection (T 658.5752 BOU)

The focus of this study is the effective prioritization of customer requirements in collaborative product development. The CR priorities are often retrieved by questioning and interviewing targeted customers. But the targeted customer might not always be easily questioned, because they might not always be obvious or clearly known. If customers might be known, they might not be able to distinct the priorities for CR's, because everything is important to them. Moreover concerns of the developer's organization and the society might not get the necessary attention and it might be asked too much from the customer to trade off all customer requirements (CR's) by their own. Because the resources for an extensive customer interviewing might lack anyway the stakeholders might prioritize the CR's on their own. Efforts have already been undertaken to support cross-functional stakeholder groups in finding priorities of CR's. Most of the investigated methods lacked the ability to distinct the importance of CR's by a relative amount or were not able to integrate the interdependency of stakeholders in other ways than a tiresome negotiation processes. With the proposed Urn-Scheme approach the stakeholders register their own individual priorities based on their perceptions of what the relative priorities of the CR's might be. Furthermore the method supports the stakeholders in considering the opinions of all other stakeholders. The extent of taking others and own opinion into account is based on quantified social interdependencies, i.e. in this study measured trust and trustworthiness into the capability of every voter to understand costumers' perceived desired product quality. The summed up trustworthiness in prioritizing CR's of every stakeholder is used in a further step to finally transform the individual priorities to relative priorities of CR's from the whole group. With the amplification of votes from the stakeholders, who are trusted to prioritize better than others, an improvement of the decision making process will be achieved. A careful developed, easily to understand mathematical framework builds the fundament for manifold analysis of the obtained voting results, e.g. consensus analysis, priority significance check. Moreover the framework makes the proposed method transparent and the obtained results well documented for later reference. / Graduation date: 2005

This research was initiated in the belief that new product development requires the integration of diverse knowledge located in different units or organizations. In recent decades, evolutionary scholars have emphasized the importance of coherent systems and regional scientists have highlighted the importance of geographical proximity for easier transfer of tacit knowledge. Despite the strength of these explanations, they do not adequately address the balance between tacit and explicit knowledge, ignoring different types of knowledge conversion process (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995). My research aims to bring a greater understanding of the integration of diverse knowledge for innovation achievements among different actors. Specifically, this thesis deals with project organization for new product development, exploring three main research areas: (1) company utilization of external companies and freelancers for project formation in relation to resource mobilization of companies; (2) types of knowledge conversion among employees within and between departments; and (3) the impacts of several meditating factors on clustering orientations of companies. These meditating factors include knowledge codification, IT technology for communication, and trust mechanisms that help to mobilize external knowledge and reduce friction among team members. In this study, data are collected from questionnaire survey (104 firms) and interviews with 34 persons in the Korean game industry. Probit model, tobit model, and OLS regression model were used. The main findings are as follows. First, codified knowledge concept reports, prototypes, and manuals is produced through externalization as a game development project is in progress. Second, among several indicators of internal capability of companies, the type of initial industry whether game companies started their business in the game industry and expenditures on the purchase of intellectual property rights from other cultural industries have significant and positive impacts on the utilization of external partners. Third, information communication technology has a significant, negative impact on clustering orientation of companies while reliance on communities of practice and built-in trust have significant, positive impacts on that.

To improve Taiwan's competitiveness, Taiwan's government actively encourages businesses to commit to innovative R&D activities by implementing R&D subsidies and incentives. They hope to accumulate intellectual capitals and nurture enough technical professionals to promote industrial upgrades and stimulate economic development. When applying for R&D subsidy, the application must go through the proper approval process. Approved applications will be awarded with substantial financial assistance to fuel further innovations such that R&D subsidy has become critical to many companies. This study used the "Conventional Industry Technology Development"(CITD) as an example and classifies the R&D subsidy applications for analysis based on the 5 variables: company's basic information, program type, commitment to R&D, past experience in applying for R&D subsidy, and strategic alliance with other institutions. Logistic regression is expected to sum up factors that are significant in obtaining R&D subsidies and formulate a predictive model. This enables the government to re-examine its policies and understand the conventional manufacturers' commitment to R&D. Furthermore, the study may assist the companies to assess their chances in obtaining R&D subsidies and serve as a reference for future endeavors. The study suggests that the factors most critical for companies to obtain R&D subsidies are the number of employees, capital size, number of government subsidies already obtained, number of companies non-R&D outsourced to, whether R&D intensity has increased for the past 2 years, and whether R&D funding has increased for the past 2 years. Although plan's duration and non-R&D outsourced dollar amount may have some influence, their impact was not obvious in the model.

Operations strategies, whether prompted by competitive or regulatory forces, can greatly impact firm performance. While operations strategies cover a wide spectrum of issues - supply chain management, technology choice, capacity allocation, etc. - this dissertation focuses on two such issues, namely, sustainability and product development. The thesis comprises three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) examines a regulatory aspect of sustainability strategy, product take-back, a form of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). With a stylized model, we analyze the trade-offs between assigning full responsibility for product recovery to a single echelon in a multi-echelon supply chain versus sharing responsibility between echelons. We demonstrate how the sharing of EPR program costs between the echelons can move the supply chain closer to the coordinated profit benchmark. The second essay (Chapter 3) examines a voluntary aspect of sustainability from an empirical perspective. We investigate the impact from various types of corporate environmental initiatives and environmental awards and certifications on the market value of the firm. We find that the market is selective in reacting to environmental performance, with certain types of initiatives and awards even valued negatively. The third essay (Chapter 4) is an empirical examination of the shareholder value effects that result from the restructuring of firms' product development activities. We find that, on average, the stock market reacts positively to product development restructuring, and that the reaction is dependent on the firm's prior financial performance, restructuring objective, R&D expenditures, and size.

Thesis (doctoral)--Linköping University, 1996. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-96). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.