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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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Forms of knowledge and modes of innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared two modes of innovation, Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and Doing, Using and Interacting (DUI), and found that firms combining the two modes are more likely to innovate new products or services than those relying primarily on one mode or the other.
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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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Introduction to the Handbook
TL;DR: A number of themes common to at least several of the chapters touch on this and related ideas, such as the essential dynamism of the innovative process and the benefits of an innovation are often not felt until it undergoes a dynamic, cumulative learning and diffusion process.
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Regional innovation policies in a globally connected environment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify some of the limitations facing innovation policy in Europe and put forward some ideas based on interdisciplinary thinking and methods which may help overcome these limitations, and propose two approaches to address the challenge of innovation policy formulation: an evolutionary life cycle approach to deal with the dynamic nature of innovation and the development of emerging sectors; and an approach to value chain and value system analysis to determine areas of potential growth or possible bottlenecks in the delivery of innovation.
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A Public Choice Perspective on Regional Cluster and Network Promotion in Germany
Matthias Kiese,Martin Wrobel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a public choice model that assumes different rationalities for consultants, politicians and practitioners, causing academic research and the practice of cluster development to drift apart.
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Can Host Innovation Systems in Late Industrializing Countries Benefit from the Presence of Transnational Corporations? Insights from Thailand's Manufacturing Industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered data from innovation surveys, self-assessment of technological capabilities and qualitative interview information in order to establish two things: firstly, the technological activities and capabilities of foreign affiliates and domestic firms in Thailand, and secondly, the main mechanisms by which foreign affiliates foster upgrading in domestic firms and in the innovation systems themselves.
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Science Granting Councils in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and tensions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the recent trends in science funding support in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and find that the narratives and logics of science funders and their roots in ‘Republic of Science’ vs. ‘Embedded autonomy' rationales for SGC activity must be more transparent to enable critical engagement with the ideas being used to justify spending.