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The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical study to explore the influence of size category on innovation incorporation in Irish SMEs. Changes in markets and in large organisation strategies have resulted in the need for SMEs to re-examine and modify their competitive strategies to increase innovation. Although there is some literature on innovation incorporation in SMEs, there is a lack of direct studies on this issue, with a reliance on related but indirect studies such as Reengineering and New product development in SMEs. Furthermore, there is a paucity of studies and data on the innovation incorporation in different organisational size categories within SMEs.

This study uses a grounded SME innovation model developed from earlier studies as the basis of a questionnaire survey of 2086 SMEs in Northern Ireland. The results indicate that SME organisational size categories has a significant effect on innovation incorporation in relation to leadership, people and culture, TQM/CI, product and process and Knowledge and information management.

To develop a high-quality TTS system, an appropriate segmentation of continuous speech into the syllabic units plays a vital role. The significant objective of this research work involves the implementation of an automatic syllable-based speech segmentation technique for continuous speech of the Hindi language. Here, the parameters involved in the segmentation process are optimized to segment the speech syllables. In addition to this, the proposed iterative splitting process containing the optimum parameters minimizes the deletion errors. Thus, the optimized iterative incorporation can discard more insertions without merging the frequent non-iterative incorporation. The mixture of optimized iterative and iterative incorporation provides the best accuracy with the least insertion and deletion errors. The segmentation output based on different text signals for the proposed approach and other techniques namely GA, PSO and SOM is accurately segmented. The average accuracy obtained for the proposed approach is high with 97.5% than GA, PSO and SOM. The performance of the proposed algorithm is also analyzed and gives better-segmented accuracy when compared with other state-of-the-art methods. Here, the syllable-based segmented database is suitable for the speech technology system for Hindi in the travel domain.

The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical study to explore the influence of size category on innovation incorporation in Irish SMEs. Changes in markets and in large organisation strategies have resulted in the need for SMEs to re-examine and modify their competitive strategies to increase innovation. Although there is some literature on innovation incorporation in SMEs, there is a lack of direct studies on this issue, with a reliance on related but indirect studies such as Reengineering and New product development in SMEs. Furthermore, there is a paucity of studies and data on the innovation incorporation in different organisational size categories within SMEs.

This study uses a grounded SME innovation model developed from earlier studies as the basis of a questionnaire survey of 2086 SMEs in Northern Ireland. The results indicate that SME organisational size categories has a significant effect on innovation incorporation in relation to leadership, people and culture, TQM/CI, product and process and Knowledge and information management.