Purpose – Innovation and the process of diffusion have been widely acknowledged as hinging upon the complex social psychological process. Invariably, such a process manifests itself in the form of “climate” in an organisation, which influences people’s behaviours. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the roles of a facet-specific climate, namely “climate for innovation” in de...

This article explores the potential use of Science Fiction Prototypes (SFPs) as a vehicle to promote creative thinking and innovation in the business and technology development process. In particular, the paper describes a tool, ‘‘The Imagination Workshop’’, which business people can use to drive near and far term product innovation, futuristic business and entrepreneurship. A key contribution ...

Business process languages have been successfully applied in research and industry for the development of information systems. They are used for the analysis, design, construction, and verifi cation of software applications and fit well into the model-driven paradigm. Although many business process languages have emerged in the last couple of years, they are in general not used for supporting t...

In the course of the past decades, the link between innovation and economic growth has become a wellestablished one in the economic literature. In the current study an attempt has been provided to complement this line of research with an assessment of the wealth implications of the ‘entrepreneurialisation’ of innovation systems. Relying on a 9 year panel of post-millennial observations for 22 E...

A newly introduced product or service becomes an innovation after it has been proven in the market. No one likes the fact that market failures of products and services are much more common than commercial successes. A data-driven approach to innovation is proposed. It is a natural extension of the system of customer requirements in terms of their number and type and the ways of collecting and p...

In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical challenges leaders face? To connect theory and practice, Harvard Business School professors Amabile and Khaire convened a two-day colloq...

Open innovation is a hot topic in innovation management. Its basic premise is open up the innovation process. The innovation process, in general sense, may be seen as the process of designing, developing and commercializing a novel product or service to improve the value added of a company. The development of Web 2.0 tools facilitates this kind of contributions, opening space to the emergence o...

Article history: Received 26 February 2015 Received in revised form 11 December 2015 Accepted 12 December 2015 Available online 30 December 2015 Complex international partnerships have emerged as a policy instrument of choice for many governments to build domestic capacity in science, technology and innovation with the help of foreign partners. At present, these flagship initiatives tend to be ...

BACKGROUND Middle manager resistance is often described as a major challenge for upper-level administrators seeking to implement complex innovations such as evidence-based protocols or new skills training. However, factors influencing middle manager support for innovation implementation are currently understudied in the U.S. health care literature. PURPOSE This article examined the factors th...