Fueling Innovation through Information Technology in SMEs

Organizational Slack and Information Technology Innovation Adoption in SMEs

Organizations must strike a balance between stability and innovation –i.e., between exploitation of their current business model and processes and exploration and adoption of alternative solutions (March, 1991). Accordingly, understanding the processes by which organizations adjust their propensity to innovate, as well as the conditions most likely to foster innovation in a firm, is an importan...

Innovation in Drug Discovery through Information Technology

Traditional drug discovery begins by identifying a biological substance (target protein) related to a disease and finding small chemical compounds that can control that function in a library of known chemical compounds. This limits the search space from the start, making it difficult to create chemical compounds with new structures (new drugs). In recent years, improved performance in computer ...

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COVER A circulator for sound. The arrows represent acoustic signals fl owing through the device (diameter: ~20 centimeters), which circulates sound in a nonreciprocal fashion: Signals can fl ow from left to top, from top to right, and from right to left, but not in the opposite directions. This creates one-way communication channels for sound, allowing listeners to hear but not be heard in retu...

Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...

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