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"Competition often helps to encourage better innovation but could be counterproductive if it means IT and the business are closed to each other's ideas for mobile development," says Denis McCauley, Director, Global Technology Research at the Economist Intelligence Unit and editor of the report. "Genuine collaboration in mobile innovation is imperative," he says, adding that the onus is probably on IT for making innovation work.

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Notes for editors
Fonts of innovation: Mobile development in the business is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by Symantec. The analysis is based on a global online survey conducted in September-October 2012, in which 280 executives from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa took part. Survey respondents were drawn from both the IT function (23% of the sample) and the wider business (77%). All respondents were at a senior management level, with 33% from the board or C-suite. Respondents hailed from a wide range of industries, with financial services (18%), technology (13%) and manufacturing firms (12%) being particularly prominent. Over one-half (55%) of firms polled had annual revenue of over US$500m, while about one-quarter (24%) had revenue of US$5bn or more.



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