The ability of a company to innovate and to launch innovation is a critical competitive edge to remain competitive in … source of innovation. Several studies assert the fact that every employee has to offer certain skills and knowledge and can … contribute to innovation. Hence, every employee has a certain ‘entrepreneurial potential’. This potential can be expressed in the …

This doctoral thesis studies the process of innovation adoption in public administrations, addressing the research … question of how an innovation is translated to a local context. The study empirically explores Design Thinking as a new problem … this study, innovation adoption is framed in an institutionalist perspective addressing how concepts are translated to …

innovation and offerings. Public-private partnerships that are targeted at supporting this have been introduced by policy …-makers in the recent past. One example for such a partnership is the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) with … multiple Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The EIT has been initiated by the European Commission in 2008 with the …