Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review

The Innovation Value Chain

Innovation events the introduction of new products or processes represent the end of a process of knowledge sourcing and transformation. They also represent the beginning of a process of exploitation which may result in an improvement in the performance of the innovating business. This recursive process of knowledge sourcing, transformation and exploitation we call the innovation value chain. M...

Test-Driven Development as an Innovation Value Chain

For all companies that consider their Information Technology Department to be of strategic value, it is important to incorporate an innovation value chain into their software development lifecycles to enhance their teams’ performance. One model is TDD (Test-Driven Development), which is a process that detects failures and improves the productivity and quality of the team’s work. Data were colle...

Modelling the Innovation Value Chain

Innovation events the introduction of new products or processes represent the end of a process of knowledge sourcing and transformation. They also represent the beginning of a process of exploitation which may result in an improvement in the performance of the innovating business. This recursive process of knowledge sourcing, transformation and exploitation comprises the innovation value chain....

Agricultural Value Chain Finance Tools and Lessons

The Innovation Value Chain and Organizational Culture

This paper presents the findings of a study of the relationship between organizational culture and innovation. The particular contribution of this study is mainly its focus on the Innovation Value Chain (thus how organizations generate new ideas, convert them to products or services, and subsequently spread these) and how this might be related to organizational culture. The theoretical basis wa...