This paper focuses on the factors that drive innovation activity by businesses. A survey of over 200 businesses in the … ‘investing in R&D’ and ‘protecting intellectual property’, while the most important business condition to innovation success is …

The literature emphasises the role of innovation in driving economic growth. It is also generally understood by … academics and practitioners that the types of strategies adopted by a firm play a key role in determining innovation levels and … contributors to successful innovation?'. Data were collected via a large scale mail survey covering 38% of the industry, with 1 …

is the neoclassical approach. Although neoclassical theories acknowledge that growth is driven by innovation, such … innovation is exogenous to their standard models and hence often not explored. Instead the focus is on the allocation of scarce … resources, where innovation is perceived as an external shock to the system. Indeed, analysis of innovation is largely …

uncertainty, such as the recent global financial crisis, these coping methods often result in innovation in industry. Richards … (2003) identifies innovation as different from creativity in that innovation aims to transform and implement rather than …, cut and fit (Finn, 2008), the concept of innovation is an important one. This paper explores the role of uncertainty as a …

. Corporate entrepreneurship consists of three parts: innovation, venturing, and renewal processes (Guth and Ginsberg, 1990 …). Innovation refers to the development of new products, venturing to the creation of new businesses, and renewal to redefining … all three aspects of CE, making it important to compare managerial and organizational antecedents of innovation, venturing …

critical issue for ensuring sustained innovation capacity. The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) in KIFs is … HRM practices that support innovation. To this end, the paper includes reviews of the literature relevant to HRM and … innovation in KIFs and four case studies from companies in Denmark and Australia that have been recognized for excellence in …

dynamic capability to respond to rapid changes in the market. Innovation capacity both in firms and in supply chains is also … findings indicate little reliance on developing their supply chain innovation capacity. This study is the initial stage of more …

continuously innovate, often having to do more with less. Increasing awareness of the benefits of stimulating continuous innovation … in small and medium enterprises has led to the development and implementation of design innovation programs, with many … western countries investing in design innovation programs for better firm performance. This paper investigates how firms …

corporate entrepreneurship: innovation, venturing or strategic renewal. We argue that structural differentiation may help … positive moderation effect regarding innovation and venturing, and TMT social integration has a negative moderation effect … regarding strategic renewal. This reveals that innovation is influenced by informal integration mechanisms on the organizational …