This article covers the subject of the practical application of the principles of open innovation in Dutch industry. Open innovation is considered to be the third stage in evolving systems for innovation management. The results of the study showed that innovative Dutch companies have successfully adopted the principles of open innovation regarding open innovation culture and importing mechanism...

Innovation and knowledge creation—these two concepts have a strong relationship but this relationship has not been examined systematically. This paper reviews the important theoretical work in both streams of research, highlighting the fundamental similarities and differences. Four major models of innovation are compared, and the distinction between radical and incremental innovation is examine...

In this study we investigate the relationship between IT investment and firm innovation outcome. We theorize about the relationships between IT and the innovation processes and identify complementary and direct effects of IT on firm innovation outcomes. We test our theory using data compiled from secondary sources. Using Negative Binomial regression models we find that the interaction between I...

Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) are community-driven solutions that provide ubiquitous and affordable or free wireless Internet access in order to improve the well-being of the community. The escalation of this innovation and diversity of its business models have raised many concerns about the viability and sustainability of such a young innovation. Specifically, CWNs can be implemented usin...

A broad and popular class of innovation-based endogenous growth models implies that the steady-state growth rate of per capita output is increasing in the steady-state inducement to innovate. This paper presents evidence that in the sample periods 18901929 and 1947-1998, the US economy can be characterized as having fluctuated around two distinct steady states. It then quantifies the relationsh...