Sentence examples for external competences from inspiring English sources

They refer to 'the firm's ability to integrate, build and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environment' (ibid, p. 516).

Although the internal R&D activities are necessary to attract the external competences (Cohen and Levinthal 1990), the extramural R&D, if correctly planned and implemented, can help companies further innovate and hence improve their performances (Caudy 2001).

After providing some background to the dispute that gave rise to the Opinion 1/03 and after a brief discussion of the EC's external competence, the Case Note will turn to the Opinion itself.

First, the Treaty provisions on external relations are confusing and fragmentary, so that the Court was always called upon to play a role that its drafters had consciously and carefully neglected in 1957: defining the reach of the Community external competence.

For example, Commissioner, the opinion of your institution's legal service, and I quote: 'agrees that the exercise of external Community competence by the Member States is legally possible in exceptional circumstances and under specific conditions, both in form and in substance'.

Some people feel the same despite repeated external evidence of competence.

The sources of innovation can be purely external or internally generated competences that enable the firm to integrate external knowledge within its boundaries.

Broader implications for future research on external knowledge sourcing and competence-based innovation are discussed.

Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved".

Moreover, a comprehensive protocol establishes the balance between standardization to support adherence and internal validity, and flexibility to support competence and external validity [ 1].

Competence to external RNAi is absent in all species of the sister clade of C. elegans, in the clade comprising C. spp. 17, 18 and 19, in C. plicata and in all species of the Angaria and Drosophilae group but not in C. sp. 6, C. sp. 13 and C. sp. 20 (Nuez and Félix, submitted).