Derives from the National Innovation System (NIS) approach, and based on some prominent weakness in China’s National Innovation System (NIS), this paper argues that China’s National Innovation Platform (NIP) program places more emphasis on the infrastructure of innovation and can be seen as an early stage to form a completed innovation system, and aims at combining the efforts and resources of ...

Based on theories from the technological innovation literature, this study develops an integrated model of information systems (IS) adoption in small businesses. The model specifies contextual variables such as decision-maker characteristics , IS characteristics, organizational characteristics, and environmental characteristics as primary determinants of IS adoption in small businesses. A quest...

Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological innova...

Knowledge in medicine has always depended on the investigative tools available at any given time. This explains that our understanding of pathophysiology has most often progressed by frog leaps, reflecting the successive technological innovations bestowed upon the various fields of medicine, such as ours. The integration of new technological innovations normally follows a standard process where...

In a last few decades, innovation research scholars proposed several new concepts, one after another, but independently, and in a chronological sequence: technology fusion; digital convergence; disruptive technology; open innovation; and IoT (Internet of Things). Each concept has its own explaining power for a certain innovation at a certain time period, but has obvious limitations. A basic que...

Complexity theory has become influential in recent models social science. In the context of innovation and new technologies, most applications have focused on technology adoption and technology diffusion, while the topic of the innovation process has received less attention. This paper discusses three families of complexity models of technological innovation: fitness landscape models, network m...

The paper analyzes the satellite broadband systems for consumer from the perspective of technological innovation. The suggested interpretation relies upon such concepts as technological paradigm, technological trajectory and salient points. Satellite technology for broadband is a complex system on which each component (i.e. the satellite, the end-user equipment, the on-ground systems and relate...

How can we sustain global economic performance while reducing and perhaps eliminating climate impacts? This dual objective ultimately requires the innovation of radically new low-or zero-emitting energy technologies. But what is involved in such innovation, and why and how should governments support it? What are the implications for innovation policymakers? The paper discusses the nature of the...

Technological innovation is a key ingredient in building high performance organizations and the proper evaluation of technological innovation capability (TIC) is very important for decision makers. The objective of this paper is to introduce an analytical network process (ANP) model for technological innovation capability evaluation. This paper reports an application of proposed methodology as ...

Technological innovation became one of the biggest sources of competitiveness in major sub-sectors of services. In what concerns health care services business, evidences are much more diffused, because the ownership of the business could influence the objectives in terms of competitiveness, costs and service quality. Additionally, the concept of technological innovation is very wide, if we cons...