In the unfolding knowledge-based economy, services do matter. But while they are increasingly seen to play a pivotal role in innovation processes, there is little by way of a systematic view of this role. This essay presents a four dimensional model of (services) innovation, that points to the significance of such non-technological factors in innovation as new service concepts, client interface...

Innovation in English language education (ELE) has become a major ‘growth area’ in recent years. At the same time, an ELE innovation management literature has also developed, based on insights from innovation theory and their application, both from outside and within ELE, and concerned with attempting to critically evaluate and inform ELE innovation practice. Thus, using a well-established thre...

Article history: Received 29 October 2009 Received in revised form 8 June 2010 Accepted 9 June 2010 The presence of a slowdown in new product life cycles has recently received notable attention from many innovation diffusion scholars, who have tried to explain and model it on a dualmarket hypothesis (early market-main market). In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the slowdown...

This paper aims to provide some guidelines for operators involved in local development related to the creation and management of territorial networks as critical tools to foster forms of efficient, effective and sustainable local development. Some models of local territorial networks’ structure and dynamics are described on the basis of the contributions of the complex networks’ theories. The d...

Innovation in the forest sector is a growing research interest and within this field, there attention for institutional, policy societal dimensions particular when it comes to question of how support innovativeness sector. This Special Issue therefore focuses on governance aspects, relating bridging business political-institutional-societal levels. includes social/societal factors, goals implic...

Standardization, based on scientific and technological development, provides solutions for optimal level of order in a wide range industrial, societal environmental fields. Analogically to the process open innovation, development standards brings together knowledge experience different stakeholders, resulting that are relevant accessible general public. Similarly, concept responsible innovation...

With advanced information and communication technology, the organizations’ business model has undergone fundamental changes. These changes are also observed in the banking industry. This research aims at explaining the Iranian electronic banking business model and recognizing its challenges in the transformation to digital banking, which is considered as the research innovation. In terms of met...