Process Innovation - A Driver for Competitiveness

Information Systems Maintenance: A key driver of Business Process Innovation

This paper proposes a conceptual model to investigate the relationship between information systems maintenance and process innovation. A comprehensive review of information systems innovation and business process innovation literature is presented and proposed research model is discussed. The model highlights four innovation enabling factors of process innovation and its relationship with infor...

Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Competitiveness and Innovation Policy

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...

The Chemical Industry: Regulation, Innovation, and Competitiveness

The effect of environmental regulation on innovation by firms and on competitiveness by countries has been a source of theorizing and debate for more than half a century. In particular, the chemical industry, which arose in Europe and the US at the end of the 19 century together with the second industrial revolution, has been accused of causing numerous large-scale accidents, which have had sig...

Balancing Between Competitiveness and Cohesion in Innovation

A process for practicing design innovation

In the past, companies transformed their business primarily through pushing their efficiency to extreme limits, often through streamlining their tactical operations and strategic offerings. For example, Google’s search engines have become amazingly efficient in searching through large amounts of data using their patented system called PageRank. In seconds, the search engine presents us with res...