From rhetorics to practice: implementation of technological innovation within Spanish public service media

SERIES No . 0 1 0 Media , Connectivity , Literacies & Ethics Rhetorics , Innovation and New Media

Innovation, when it is discussed in the social sciences is often given definitions consistent with economics or technology oriented approaches. This paper offers a culturally substantiated approach. It looks at how innovations in new media forms can be understood from a semiotic analytical perspective. A new media form, for instance, a multimedia videogame, is considered as an infinitely hetero...

Relevance of technological innovation and entrepreneurship to biotechnology in Iran

One of the latest and most controversial areas of science is biotechnology. Genetic engineering concerns with the manipulation of DNA molecules to modify plants, animals and other creatures. Scientists are now able to isolate a gene or genome in an animal or plant to another one, based on the traits they want to transfer. The movement of a gene from a living creature to another one is called th...

e-Service Innovation within Open Innovation Networks

Service innovations are central concerns in fast changing environment. Due to the fitness in customer demands and advances in information technologies (IT) in service management, an expanded conceptualization of e-service innovation is required. Specially, innovation practices have become increasingly more challenging, driving managers to employ a different open innovation model to maintain com...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Development of Hospital Service from the Viewpoint of Public and Non-Public Managers in Shiraz

Introduction: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been constructively considered in recent years to reform health sectors in many countries. The aim of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of Shiraz hospital managers on the implementation of public-private partnership model in providing hospital services. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in Shiraz in 2016. Hospitals af...