This paper provides new evidence on the objectives and determinants of different types of innovations and patents, environmental as opposed to other innovations and patents, and different variants of environmental innovations and patents. We investigate how firm-specific and sector-specific driving forces differ by innovation type. Moreover, we outline the functions that different innovation ty...

Although the impacts of greenhouse gas build-up remain uncertain, they have the potential to be very serious and possibly catastrophic. If the outcomes are serious then neither improving energy efficiency nor adaptation policies will cope with the problems of warming. Reducing climate impacts without impeding economic development will require new low or zero emissions energy carriers and associ...

Objective of the study: Analyze how Horizontal Innovation enables a company to produce radical and incremental innovations, making it ambidextrous.Methodology/approach: The research is case study at mature Brazilian that puts based on its Employee Suggestion System (ESS) into practice. A total 18 interviews were conducted, including: all 4 directors 10 managers organization, in addition 2 coord...

A FRESH LOOK AT INCREMENTAL AND RADICAL INNOVATION IN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM Highly innovative and entrepreneurial firms, those generating ideas aimed at new and enhanced products, manufacturing processes and services, require entrepreneurial leaders who successfully manage the innovation process to discover or create, and then exploit opportunities (Oster, 1994: Venkataraman & Shane, 1998). ...

Innovation is often understood in terms such as radical versus incremental, or exploratory versus exploitative, yet these terms are used loosely with little precision as to the type or amount of ‘newness’ found in the innovation. We suggest that innovations be judged on the basis of original knowledge contribution and needs addressed. Based on this fundamental definition, we propose a formal ty...

The present study analyses the profile of firms cooperating with users and estimates the effect of this cooperation on firms’ innovation activities. This issue is particular novel and important as users provide information that will be very useful for generating new products and making the innovation process more efficient. The findings confirm that cooperation with users is a tool for progress...

This section positively but critically explores three perspectives that may explain incremental innovation of craft exporters in emerging economies. The first perspective is that of innovation systems. Ever since 1987, studies on innovation systems have greatly contributed to our understanding of innovation. Scholars on innovation systems in emerging economies have added the notion that innovat...

The aim of this paper is to carry out a systematic literature review about the relationships between quality management, innovation, and performance. For that end, search was carried in Web Science Scopus databases, 172 articles were selected. Results show there positive relationship product process innovation (incremental radical), operational financial performance, direct indirect relationshi...

The industrial structure of many European countries is dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Although SMEs consider the new product development process fundamental for success in the global market, the level of formalization of the innovation process is very low (Slywotzky [1]). The aim of this paper is to analyze in-depth a sample of SMEs located in a highly industrialized Italian ...