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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 challenges of creating actionable knowledge: an action research perspective
Martin Sexton,Shu-Ling Lu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the new knowledge produced by academia often does not satisfy the needs of practitioners and present action research as a useful concept which can fuse the expectations, contributions and outputs of academia and practitioners.
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Clean technology R&D and innovation in emerging countries—Experience from China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reveal the four phases of an innovation life cycle in emerging countries and highlight the dominant role of the public sector in clean technology R&D, concluding that emerging countries could craft their domestic policy to spur clean technology research and innovation.
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Universities in an open innovation system: A UK perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the nature and impact of higher education institution (HEI) in a distributed, open innovation system using a survey of some 600 firms in the UK.
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Market orientation, innovation, and firm performance: An analysis of Albanian firms
Rezart Prifti,Genc Alimehmeti +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the market orientation relation with innovation and firm performance by analyzing a sample of 99 companies operating in Albania and test empirically the impact of market orientation on innovation and performance.
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Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? An empirical investigation of four European countries ☆
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) into manufacturing by merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent applications and patent quality indicators from the Pastat and OECD Patent Quality Indicators databases, respectively.
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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.