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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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China's wind industry: Leading in deployment, lagging in innovation
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Energy ‘access’ for sustainable development: Enabling modern energy practices in rural communities
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Innovation assessment in traditional industries. A proposal of aesthetic innovation indicators
TL;DR: This work reviews the various criticisms levelled at existing indicators and proposes some new indicators that would capture the types of innovations that are conducted by the traditional industries and the concept of aesthetic novelty, which is tested in the Spanish footwear industry.
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The cost of integrating external technologies: Supply and demand drivers of value creation in the markets for technology
Marco Ceccagnoli,Lin Jiang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that suppliers' knowledge transfer capabilities, buyers' absorptive capacity, and the cospecialization between R&D and downstream activities in the buyers' industries can influence the cost of integrating a licensed technology.
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Developing National Systems of Innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a more universal and dynamic view of the shaping and reshaping of interactions between firms and universities throughout different countries and phases of development, focusing on those interactions in developing countries.
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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.