Corporate sustainable innovation is amajor driver of institutional change, and its success can be largely attributed to employees.While some scholars have described the importance of intrinsic motivations and flexibility to facilitate innovation, others have argued that constraints and extrinsic motivations stimulate innovation. In the context of sustainable innovation, we explore which employe...

Abstract In this chapter, we analyse the debate around implementation of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in Higher Education, Funding Research Centres (HEFRCs). We will illustrate some proposals about how to implement RRI HERFCs a good way. Open inclusive governance is key fruitful these organizations. Governance context refers ways steering processes desirable direction, case directi...

Innovation is a distributed process that involves the collective efforts and the interaction of heterogeneous organisations. Each of those actors is specialised in specific activities, technologies and knowledge and innovation is the result of the combination and integration of their activities. Coordination is a key determinant for the viability of distributed innovation in that it stimulates ...

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Initially hailed as a miracle crop for biofuel production, Jatropha has recently attracted criticism for competing with food production, causing adverse biodiversity impacts, and jeopardizing land access by rural populations in tropical countries. This paper analyzes the contested development of Jatropha biofuel sector in Tanzania by anchoring two new concepts of 'organizational models' and 'in...

It is widely acknowledged that innovation is a key factor for competitiveness and that output growth and productivity depend on the development and diffusion of new technologies (OECD, 1997). However, the innovation process is not linear, but a complex and interactive one, involving business and non-business institutions. Kline and Rosenberg’s (1986) “chain-linked” interactive model is an examp...

This paper examines the effects of financial reporting on corporate innovation. After controlling for other determinants of corporate innovation, I find that firms with higher-quality financial reporting exhibit greater innovation. I show that the relation between financial reporting quality and innovation is more pronounced for firms that have greater growth opportunities, those that operate i...

In this paper, the author proposes a new conceptual framework for technology and reclassifies technology into hard and soft. Soft-tech refers to technology derived from outside of natural science disciplines and from outside of conventional science. Through discussions on technological competitiveness, new institutional innovation, Chinese traditional medicine, and the gap between developed and...