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H2020Staff exchange2017–2019

K.I.T.F.E.M. · Knowledge and Innovation in, to and from Emerging Markets

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2019-12-31
EU contribution
€720,000
Participants
15
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Knowledge and Innovation in, to and from Emerging Markets

Since the rise of emerging economies in global markets, it has been critical to better understand the role of knowledge and innovation played in this process. We focus not only how knowledge and innovation is managed and generated in emerging markets, but also how traditionally they learned from advanced economies to enhance their innovation capability, and recently the reverse innovation process about how this innovation capability in emerging markets affects and is transferred to advanced economies. The findings are important for society as they draw out the contributions and implications for indiviudal managerial and non-managerial employees and raise aspects to be considered by firms when competing in Western and emerging market econocmies, thereby affecting their competiveness and the relevant segments of national economies. Our findings are of theoretical/practical relevance: 1) We bring together and generalize results results from the fields of knowledge management, international innovation management, collaborative innovation, employment relations, and expatriate management through the exploration and exploitation of a common research framework in the context of emerging markets and their comparative studies with the EU's advanced economies; 2) We provide integrative frameworks of the business innovation models and trajectories followed by emerging countries´ firms and the evaluation of the potential impact of these on European firms and innovation policies; 3) Research and innovation management curriculars of the participating 50+ researchers, technicians, managers and administrative staff are improved, benefiting thereby career development, research and innovation management capability of the affiliated European and non-European institutions; 4) Existing bilateral collaborations among the project members in different sectors are strenghtended to further develop multi-lateral relationships to create high level competences and facilitate future research collaborations and transfer of innovation capabilities.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Since the rise of emerging economies in the global scenario, it has been critical to better understand the role of knowledge and innovation played in this process. We focus on researching not only how knowledge and innovation is managed and generated in emerging markets, but also how traditionally they learned from advanced economies to enhance their innovation capability, and recently the reverse innovation process about how this innovation capability in emerging markets affects and is transferred to advanced economies. With this purpose, the proposed KITFEM research project aims to study the management of knowledge and innovation in, to and from emerging markets, with special emphasis on its impacts on the EU. With the proposed secondments among fifteen partners in nine countries around the world in four continents, between partners from academic sector and non-academic sector, KITFEM combines research on the issue of knowledge and innovation between emerging markets and European enterprises, and knowledge sharing and dissemination around the world to enhance the impact of European innovation. Involving 54 researchers, managers, tech, and administrative staff, KITFEM consists of seven work packages to foster the interaction between scientific community and other stakeholders such as institutions, industries, business, and general civil society, to ensure the popular interests and engagement of the researched topic. In such a way, one work package is dedicated to project management and internal communication and another to external communication, dissemination and outreach activities. Five work packages focus on research, training and dissemination, at multiple levels: Institutional-industrial-organizational-individual. With the designed project structure and competitive capability of the fifteen partners involved, KITFEM is expected to generate high impact in the globe, both in term of research excellence and societal engagement.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • COLEGIO UNIVERSITARIO DE ESTUDIOS FINANCIEROS SL · MadridCoordinatorSpain
  • EKA SRL · BARIItaly
  • FUNDACION PARA EL CONOCIMIENTO MADRIMASD · MadridSpain
  • GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGEN STIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS · GottingenGermany
  • INDUSTRIE- UND HANDELSKAMMER HANNOVER · HANNOVERCity levelGermany
  • INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY · Monterrey Nuevo LeonMexico
  • JINAN UNIVERSITY · GUANGZHOUChina
  • Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva · Buenos AiresArgentina
  • NAICA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA · LecceItaly
  • PEKING UNIVERSITY · BEIJINGChina
  • Renmin University of China · BeijingChina
  • SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET · Odense MDenmark
  • TRUONG DAI HOC KINH TE THUOC DAI HOC QUOC GIA HANOI · HANOIVietnam
  • UNIVERSITA DEL SALENTO · LecceItaly
  • UNIVERSITE AL AKHAWAYN D'IFRANE · IfraneMorocco

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