Structural & Social Integration : Help or Hindrance to Bottom - up Innovation ?

The “ creative - schizotype ” : Help or hindrance to team - level innovation ?

Integrating care for older people with complex needs: key insights and lessons from a seven-country cross-case analysis

BACKGROUND To address the challenges of caring for a growing number of older people with a mix of both health problems and functional impairment, programmes in different countries have different approaches to integrating health and social service supports. OBJECTIVE The goal of this analysis is to identify important lessons for policy makers and service providers to enable better design, impl...

A New Perspective on Twitter Hashtag Use: Diffusion of Innovation Theory

Twitter is a fast growing real-time social media tool. As Twitter evolves, more and more people are partaking in sharing what is happening around the world through various Twitter applications. Hashtag use has become a unique tagging convention to help associate Twitter messages with certain events or contexts. Prefixed by a # symbol with a keyword, a Twitter hashtag serves as a bottom-up userp...

External Knowledge In Organisational Innovation - Toward An Integration Concept

The integration of customer knowledge into innovation processes not only faces companies with many challenges but also opens up opportunities for new product development and fostering innovativeness. Past research describes a multitude of approaches and practical examples, which companies can refer to if they are willing to tap customer knowledge. With the emergence of social software and open ...

Bottom-up, Bottom-line: Development-Relevant Enterprises in East Africa and their Significance for Agricultural Innovation

Over the last 10 years much has been written about the role of the private sector as part of a more widely-conceived notion of agricultural sector capacity for innovation and development. This paper discusses the emergence of a new class of private enterprise in East Africa that would seem to have an important role in efforts to tackle poverty reduction and food security. These organisations ap...