Showing papers in "Technovation in 2009"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate if open innovation practices are also applied by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and explore the incidence of and apparent trend towards open innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the factors that encourage customers to adopt online banking in Saudi Arabia, based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and incorporated some extra important control variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the patterns of knowledge links between different kinds of knowledge sources and links and found that firms introducing more advanced innovations are relying to a higher extent on R&D and patents, and that they are cooperating more often with universities and research organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the factors that distinguish co-cooperation from collaboration and propose that the ability of a firm to reap benefits in innovation-related co-competition is contingent on factors that enable collective value creation, and on those that facilitate the individual isolation of the innovations and any subsequent profits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a more direct measure of absorptive capacity and a wide range of variables in a cross-nationally tested structural model to provide stronger quantitative evidence in the field of organizational absorbent capacity research.

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive literature overview of technology and innovation management aspects on market pull and technology push is given, and an advanced conceptual framework is introduced as well as the most common front end innovation models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore factors that drive innovation activities in SMEs in a small emerging transition economy (Croatia), and compare it with findings from developed economies, and find that most factors that were found to be important in developed economies are important in developing economies as well.

TL;DR: Text mining is used to transform patent documents into structured data to identify keyword vectors and principal component analysis is employed to reduce the numbers of keyword vectors to make suitable for use on a two-dimensional map.

TL;DR: This paper demonstrates how virtual worlds allow producers and consumers to swarm together with like-minded individuals to create new products and permits companies to find an audience to test, use, and provide feedback on the content and products they create.

TL;DR: A framework is proposed that positions TM activities with respect to the wider business context, supported by a case study to illustrate the value of the TM framework.

TL;DR: O'Shea et al. as mentioned in this paper used a national survey of tenured and tenure-track scientists in the US to identify personal and professional characteristics that affect whether university scientists interact with private companies and, if so, the ways in which they interact.

TL;DR: In this paper, a research model based on knowledge sharing and group cohesiveness was proposed to examine team performance in technology R&D teams, which is composed of two parts: knowledge sharing predicted by TMS and trust, and team performance predicted by knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study based on both qualitative and quantitative data, by explaining how Cisco Systems has been so successful in utilizing its strategy of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for corporate growth based on a business ecosystem, especially from a technological perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective analysis investigating the case of the forthcoming South European HSR lines between Perpignan and Barcelona shows that the resulting increased spatial competition may reinforce the phenomenon of the tourism activities agglomeration around Barcelona to the detriment of Pignan.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize and build on previous research, and propose a three-dimensional risk management framework for new product development (NPD) and empirically test whether risk management strategy affects the performance of NPD using survey data from Chinese firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the influence of a variety of firm and market characteristics on radical and incremental innovations in the hotel industry and conclude that the main determinants of innovation are the form of hotel management, the hotel market strategy, and the size and location of the hotel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the incidence and nature of obstacles to growth in a cross-section and longitudinal approach, and use Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) as a case study, finding evidence that the overall ability to overcome obstacles decreases at the age of four, most probably reflecting the rise of the so-called credibility juncture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of personal qualities, management skills, and opportunity recognition skills of entrepreneurs in influencing the venture performance was explored and argued, and it was found that opportunity recognition skill acted as a mediator between qualities-skills and three measures of venture performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between dynamic capabilities and different types of online innovations and find that companies with relatively strong dynamic capabilities in all three areas (sensing, seizing and reconfiguration) seem to produce innovations that combine their existing capabilities on either the market or the technology dimension with new capabilities on the other dimension thus resulting in niche creation and revolutionary type innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the public-private research collaboration between Italian universities and domestic industry, applying a bibliometric type of approach, based on an exhaustive listing of all co-authored publications in international journals that are jointly realized by Italian university scientists and researchers in the private sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how different dimensions of social capital influence a region's innovative activity measured by patent applications and found strong support for the argument that social capital indeed influences innovative activity and furthermore that different dimensions have dissimilar effects on innovative activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on potential complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German manufacturing plants, and use a supermodularity approach to find the optimal combinations of crossfunctional teams.

TL;DR: There is potential for further improvements in software product development industry in general by seeing agility as a wider, organization-oriented business concept following the AM/NPD learning, and potential new areas for software process improvement (SPI) in large-scale NPD organizations are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempted to extend TAM to business-level innovation technology adoption by investigating the influence of perceived usefulness, subject norm, perceived easy-of-use, and characteristics of the firm itself on attitudes of businesses at the pre-decision stage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the findings of an exploratory empirical investigation in this understudied, yet one of the fastest growing tourist destination in the world, based on a recent survey of IT applications and challenges in four and five-star hotels in the UAE.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine organizational and environmental factors that may explain the adoption of innovations in public sector organizations and show that organizations that combine technical and administrative innovations increase their performance, while high adopters of both types of innovations are more sensitive to environmental factors than organizational factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a random-effect probit model is used to evaluate the relationship between innovation capabilities and quality management, and the results strongly confirm the positive link between the two activities.

TL;DR: In this article, a system dynamics model was created to investigate the vehicle-infrastructure phenomenon currently inhibiting the growth of hydrogen transportation systems, and the authors concluded that a coordinated policy approach that simultaneously encourages both the purchase of hydrogen vehicles and the building of hydrogen infrastructure is the most effective approach for rapid vehicle and infrastructure adoption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the results of an empirical study involving 10 firms located in the Campos Basin oil & gas industrial agglomeration in Brazil, including wellhead equipment suppliers (wet christmas trees), well service suppliers (well technology) and the highly influential national oil company Petrobras.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of quality systems on innovation performance using the method of propensity matching and found that the difference in innovation performance between firms with Medium and Low Quality Levels is not of a great magnitude.