The changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. Science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. The main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. With the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

Due to the rapid changing environment, shortening product life cycles, and increasing cost of R&D (Research and Development), the company cannot maintain its competitiveness by only relying on its internal R&D capability. Unlike the traditional closed innovation in the enterprise, open innovation and wikinomics have changed the innovation model and create a new way to success. The concepts of o...

We analyse the hitherto unexplored relationship between intra-firm conflict between the research and development (R&D) department and central management, conflict alleviation and the choice of ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ innovation, in the context of a simple formal model. We find that in the presence of (intentional or unintentional) divergence of preferred (R&D) output between the R&D department a...

The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. The huge economics literature flourished in the last couple of decades on the subject broadly falls into two distinct research traditions, namely themainstreamR&D spillovers approach and the evolutionary economics view. Both traditions ag...

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

The Innovation Mill (IM) is an initiative which has been established in collaboration mainly among Nokia Corporation, Technopolis, and Tekes. Nokia Corporation provides its non-core ideas to other existing and start-ups companies through IM to turn these ideas into valuable products and services. Nokia idea database consists of enormous number of ideas that are non-core to it. Companies earn gr...

BACKGROUND Training in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) in medical education has become increasingly prevalent among medical schools to train students in complex problem solving and solution design. OBJECTIVE We aim to characterize I&E education in US allopathic medical schools to provide insight into the features and objectives of this growing field. DESIGN I&E programs were identifie...

VII Inhaltsübersicht IX Inhaltsverzeichnis XI Abbildungsverzeichnis XVII Tabellenverzeichnis XIX Abkürzungsverzeichnis XXI 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Motivationsrahmen 2 1.2 Relevanz des Themas und Problemstellung 3 1.3 Forschungsfokus 8 1.4 Aufbau der'Arbeit 10 1.5 Konventionen 13 2 Forschungsdesign.') 15 2.1 Forschungskontext 16 2.1.1 Forschungsmethodik 17 2.1.1.1 Quantitative Ansätze 17 2.1.1.2 Qual...

This paper describes the terminology of Virtual Enterprise Environments as a construct to enable the combination of spaces for open innovation and Virtual Enterprises. This shall contribute towards better management of innovation processes in collaborative networks. Consequently this includes the Business Innovation Space and the Value Production Space, which are shared by the collaborating ent...

This paper studies firms’ innovation behavior in a supply chain where two firms first invest to reduce component’ cost according to different innovation modes (non-cooperative innovation, sequential innovation, and cooperative innovation) and then decide the prices according to different market powers (Supplier-Stackelberg, Manufacturer-Stackelberg, and Nash). We find that both the supplier and...