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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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The Ecuadorian Banana Farms Managers’ Perceptions: Innovation as A Driver of Environmental Sustainability Practices
Alicia Ramírez-Orellana,Daniel Ruiz-Palomo,Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez,John Eddson Burgos-Burgos +3 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the perceptions of banana farms managers towards environmental sustainability practices through the impact of innovation, adoption of information systems, and training employees through a case study in the province of El Oro (Ecuador).
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Product innovation: testing the relative influence of industry, institutional context and firm factors
TL;DR: Analysis of industry characteristics, institutional framework, firm factors and some firm factors found to be positively related to firms’ product innovation shows that in institutional environments with significant levels of social capital and spillovers, firms change their innovation strategy focusing on external R&D.
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Development and Use of gender-specific technologies: Evidence from China, Poland and Sweden
Bo Göransson,Max Rolfstam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the gender aspects of technology use in the innovation system and found that there exist differences in preferences between genders, and that the innovation systems have been slow or incapable of exploiting these differences with a consequent welfare loss to society.
Samarbete utan gemensamma mål Att styra och stimulera innovation
TL;DR: In Sweden, three of the four largest institutional research funders have the explicit goal to not only support research but also to stimulate economic growth.
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Innovation process management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a synthetic presentation of differences in approach to managing innovations and the effect of efficient managing innovations, which are described based on examining processes of preparing the production, and the main value of this article is to show issues of managing innovations as the matter requiring parallel apply of modern tools assisting change management, knowledge management, project management etc.
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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.