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An Overview of Innovation
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The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Models that depict innovation as a smooth, well-behaved linear process badly misspecify the nature and direction of the causal factors at work. Innovation is complex, uncertain, somewhat disorderly, and subject to changes of many sorts. Innovation is also difficult to measure and demands close coordination of adequate technical knowledge and excellent market judgment in order to satisfy economic, technological, and other types of constraints—all simultaneously. The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization.read more
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Catching Up to the Technological Frontier? : Understanding Firm-level Innovation and Productivity in Kenya
TL;DR: The second Medium-Term Plan (MTP-2) of the Vision 2030 as discussed by the authors aims to create a globally competitive and prosperous country with a high quality of life by 2030 and to shift the country's status to upper-middle income level.
Knowledge transfers in University-Industry R&D projects: A situated approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored knowledge exchanges as they happen, influenced by their material and social circumstances, through a situated approach, and explored the impact of power exercises between partners on what is learnt, how, and by whom.
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New Product Development in Start-up Technology-Based Firms (STBFs).
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on new product development in business incubators is presented, where the authors investigate the relationship between corporate strategy, NPD process features and new product success factors.
Engaging in the modernisation agenda for European higher education
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Standing on the Shoulders of Science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed U.S. patents to establish three new facts about the relationship between science and the value of inventions and found that patents building directly on science are on average 26% more valuable than patents in the same technology that are disconnected from science.
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National Innovation Systems: Analytical Concept and Development Tool
TL;DR: In this article, a core of the innovation system is defined and it is illustrated that it is necessary both to understand micro-behaviour in the core and understand the wider setting within which the core operates.
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Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of prior research on how firms leverage external sources of innovation is presented, which suggests a four-phase model in which a linear process of obtaining, integrating, integrating and commercializing external innovations is combined with interaction between the firm and its collaborators.
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University–industry relationships and open innovation: Towards a research agenda
Markus Perkmann,Kathryn Walsh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the diffusion and characteristics of collaborative relationships between universities and industry are explored, and a research agenda informed by an open innovation perspective is developed. But the authors focus on the effects of university-industry links on innovation-specific variables, such as patents or firm innovativeness, and the dynamics of these relationships remain under-researched.
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'Mode 3' and 'Quadruple Helix': toward a 21st century fractal innovation ecosystem
TL;DR: The 'Quadruple Helix' emphasises the importance of also integrating the perspective of the media-based and culture-based public, and results is an emerging fractal knowledge and innovation ecosystem, well-configured for the knowledge economy and society.
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The importance of diverse collaborative networks for the novelty of product innovation
María J. Nieto,Lluís Santamaría +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of different types of collaborative networks in achieving product innovations and their degree of novelty was theoretically and empirically analyzed, using data from a longitudinal sample of Spanish manufacturing firms.