Innovation is a complex phenomenon and process involving translation of knowledge into new techniques, products, services. It is considered crucial for sustainable agriculture development and achievement of long-term food security. The review describes the diversity of innovation and relates it to agro-food sector. It also sheds light on different innovation models and explores their contributi...

Traditional concepts of managing product innovation are not suitable for innovation in complex product systems (CPSs). This paper argues that firms developing and integrating the components of CPSs need specific competence for managing such projects. A framework for evaluating a firm’s competence in CPS innovation is developed that covers managing the integration of internal and external key re...

In today's competitive world corporate survival requires special attention to innovation. Given the key role of intellectual capital in corporate innovation capability, this article is written with the aim of provide a model to promote organizational innovation through human capital management and knowledge sharing. The population in this study is managers, directors and experts from 13 industr...

In today's competitive world corporate survival requires special attention to innovation. Given the key role of intellectual capital in corporate innovation capability, this article is written with the aim of provide a model to promote organizational innovation through human capital management and knowledge sharing. The population in this study is managers, directors and experts from 13 industr...

The term Open Innovation has become popular in recent years to describe an approach to innovation that decidedly goes beyond the boundaries of a single organization by encouraging firms to pull together knowledge and creativity from a wide variety of parties. As such, Open Innovation evokes an image of firms working with a multitude of partners, always searching for new linkages that could enha...

Innovation in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) refers to exploiting new ideas, exploiting new technology, and employing out-of-the-box thinking, which lead to the creation of new methodologies, techniques, concepts, frameworks, and software. This paper addresses the following questions: (a) what was the state of the art in M&S 50 years ago, what is it today, how much progress has been made? (b) ho...

Innovation in multinational companies is complex and involves heterogeneous actors. The importance of drawing upon globally-dispersed knowledge and entering new markets leads to globalisation of innovation activities. Simultaneously, localisation favours a close and personal interaction and thus the transfer of implicit knowledge. A redefinition of the concepts of globalisation and localisation...