Innovation as a policy strategy for natural resource protection

Industry Policy as Innovation Policy

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) as Mission-oriented Innovation Policy

Open innovation as a strategy for small high–tech companies

Desperately Avoiding Bureaucracy: Modularity as a Strategy for Organisational Innovation

Back in the 1960s, it was established that bureaucracy and innovation tend to oppose each other. However not many “innovative” organisations have managed to banish bureaucracy altogether. Topicus, a young software house in the Netherlands, has done this. It has developed an organisational strategy that creates a “spin-off” whenever the organisation becomes too large and is in danger of losing i...