To achieve the diverse health care goals of the United States, health care value must increase. The capacity to create value through innovation is facilitated by an integrated delivery system focused on creating value, measuring innovation returns, and receiving market rewards. This paper describes the Geisinger Health System's innovation strategy for care model redesign. Geisinger's clinical l...

In the modern IT industrial cluster environment, IT cluster companies increasingly depend on external sources of information to promote innovation and improve their performance. In doing so, IT cluster companies should first enhance their absorptive capacities to increase their abilities to evaluate, assimilate, and apply external knowledge to their industries. Absorptive capacity is what enabl...

Sustaining innovation for development requires rethinking the notion of the poor as passive beneficiaries of the products of others’ innovation. Recent thinking in development studies and in the literature on innovation points to the need for the poor to be active participants in the innovation process, a view that has independently gained ground through grassroots innovation networks. This pap...

In this paper we use a panel of manufacturing firms in Spain to examine the extent to which they use internal and external sources of information (customers, suppliers, competitors, consultants and universities) to generate product and process innovation. Our results show that, although internal sources are influential, external sources of information are key to achieve innovation performance. ...

entrepreneurship is a thought and process by which an individual or group recognizes new idea and opportunity, and utilizes it successfully. the universities, as a knowledge producer factor, and their diffusion institution play a widespread role in industrial innovation. indeed, the appearance of entrepreneurial university is a response to increasing importance of knowledge in local and nationa...