Innovation Contests for High-Tech Procurement

Electronic Procurement in Today’s High-Tech Firms

Does Innovation Matter for Chinese High - Tech

This paper examines the effect of innovation on export decision in Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D spending and new product output, play only a minor role for domestic exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech...

Innovation and Crowdsourcing Contests

This thesis studies contests (also called tournaments) wherein a contest organizer seeks solutions to a problem from independent agents. The seeker employs a subset of these solutions, and awards the best solution(s). For example, since 2012, Samsung has organized an innovation contest, called the Smart App Challenge, that invites independent programmers to develop novel applications for its mo...

A Model for Analyzing Entrepreneurial Innovation in High-tech Sectors

The research in this paper uses an inductive methodology to suggest a framework that is more adapted to studying innovation by small firms in high-tech sectors. Existing theories are shown to rely fundamentally on the notions of dominant design and dominant logic. Their bias towards technological innovation together with their context reliance makes them less useful in the context of high-tech ...

Open innovation as a strategy for small high–tech companies