focus of innovation (IP Generation) and IP ownership and licensing (IP Rights). However, further management practice …

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study is concerned with change in the factors that drive and support innovation, focusing on the … framework that recognises both the strongly systemic nature of innovation and the inexorable processes of transformation in an … increasingly international competitive context. It brings together sectoral innovation system approaches and frameworks for …

been an associated increase in the role of knowledge and the importance of product and process innovation. A set of … reference to available data and international research evidence on employment generation, conditions of work and innovation in …

design led approach to innovation to assist medical device companies develop new services and experiences and reshape their … emerging economies. The contribution of this work in advancing research into design innovation and future research directions …

While a number of factors have been highlighted in the innovation adoption literature, little is known about whether … different factors are related to innovation adoption in differently-sized firms. We used preliminary case studies of small … stakeholder pressure and non-financial readiness were related to innovation adoption in SMEs; but that for large firms, adoption …

knowledge flows in determining innovation adoption rates is conceptually examined. A promising new approach is developed. Open … innovation system theory is extended, by reviewing the role of three frameworks: (1) knowledge intermediaries, (2) absorptive … capacity and (3) governance arrangements. Originality: We develop a novel open innovation system model to guide further …

Innovation can be defined broadly to include the development and uptake of new technology, the introduction of new … work organisation or management structures and approaches. Innovation, or the commercial application of new knowledge, is … field of innovation in modern economies is associated with the rapid development and application of information and …

There is little empirical research on how the Chinese Government should function in innovation management, particularly … during its critical period of economic transition. This study explores and investigates the Chinese Government’s innovation … management structure, procedures and functions by interviewing government R&D management officials and industrial innovation …