Studies of service innovation have increased along with the growth of the service sector, and they have emerged from being marginal and neglected to achieve recognition as an important field to study (Miles, 2000). Until recently, this research field has to a great extent been divided between two contrasting approaches: demarcation and assimilation (Coombs & Miles, 2000). The demarcation approa...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT As any mature industry the forest industries have gone through many transformations and structural changes. Historically, forest industries in the Northern hemisphere (North America and Northern European countries) have been rather successful by moving forward in the value chain in order to avoid market decline or raw material shortage (Hylander 2009). From timber exports and ...

We think of the disciplinary technological knowledge available in the economy as subdivided into di¤erent disciplinary …elds, or simply …elds, which only partly correspond to application domains. A …eld identi…es a set of funcional or ’phenotipic’ traits in the broad technology domain. The set of technology …elds existing at a given date and the relations between them are understood to be the o...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with the paradox of developing new products and technologies on the one hand and minimizing costs on the other. These SMEs must be innovative to survive and grow. However, compared to large firms, SMEs have several problems in their innovation process, which negatively influence their overall innovation performance. This research explores succe...

Social innovation (SI) has been championed as an integral feature of community-led rural development. However, the choice term “innovation” prompts a number questions about intensity and novelty SI initiatives. In this paper, these issues are examined through lens radical incremental theory. By analysing features SI, we can better understand different social reconfigurations that respond effect...

Companies will not survive long unless they join a threefold revolution in management itself, innovation, and information technology. Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research a...

Health reform requires safety net settings to transform care delivery, but how they will innovate in order to achieve this transformation is unknown. Two series of key informant interviews (N = 28) were conducted in 2012 with leadership from both California's public hospital systems and community health centers. Interviews focused on how innovation was conceptualized and solicited examples of s...