INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER AS A SELF-REGULATING COMPLEX SYSTEM

Innovation as a complex adaptive system

Regulating Iranian Card payments System as a two sided market

This paper examines the necessity of regulating the Iranian card payments system (SHAPARAK) based on the theory of two-sided markets. The expansion of the payment card system in recent years has arisen some questions regarding the role of all kinds of costs and expenses such as interchange fees, cardholder fees, merchant fees, and network externality in balancing the market. Since there is only...

Proximity, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation in Technology-Based M&As

This paper presents the findings from a qualitative study on the extent to which three dimensions of proximity–geographic, cognitive, and organizational– impact knowledge transfer and innovation post-M&A. Findings show that the elements of proximity substantially influence both knowledge transfer and innovation although the nature of the impact varies and is influenced by the type of management...

Emergent Innovation—a Socio-Epistemological Innovation Technology Creating Profound Change and Radically New Knowledge as Core Challenges in Knowledge Management

This paper introduces an alternative approach to innovation: Emergent Innovation. As opposed to radical innovation Emergent Innovation finds a balance and integrates the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a knowledge management perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with th...

Knowledge, Technology Adoption and Financial Innovation

Why are new financial instruments created? Why are they needed and what purpose do they serve? This paper proposes the view that financial development arises as a response to the contractual needs of emerging technologies. Exogenous technological progress generates a demand for new financial instruments in order to share risk or overcome private information, for example. A model of the dynamics...