Abstract Within health care projects for change and innovation, professionals should ambitiously cooperate in order to yield a creative multidisciplinary mindset guaranteed innovative output. Failure of innovation is amongst others due deterioration insufficient focus on relational aspects. Aim; an management tool facilitating process launched. Methods; Systemic (SI) social network model, subsi...

Risk is central to innovation, but in order to be theoretically interesting and of practical use, the relation between risk and innovation needs to be investigated in more specific situations. This paper explores the risk conceptions of innovators in two large corporations and identifies three themes that illuminate the relationship between risk and innovation in the corporate setting. The firs...

Context. Innovation is promoted in companies to help them stay competitive. Four types of innovation are defined: product, process, business, and organizational. Objective. We want to understand the perception of the innovation concept in industry, and particularly how the innovation types relate to each other. Method. We launched a survey at a branch of a multi-national corporation. Results. F...

In this paper we propose an innovation model for the collaboration between SME and public research institutions in order to enhance knowledge transfer and to foster the creation of a regional innovation network. A third aspect is to enhance a more intense cooperation in the public research sector between institutions and departments. In this paper we discuss the term innovation and describe the...

INTRODUCTION The success of industrial and scientific research has always been dependent on new discoveries and innovations, but tighter budgets and increasing global competition push the pace with which innovation must happen nowadays. Bringing new products to the market before competitors do constitutes a crucial competitive advantage for many companies and organizations. Accelerating discove...

The importance of innovation for sustained competiveness is well stated in the literature. However, most product innovation research has so far focused on large firms or small high tech, start-up or spin-off companies. This study investigates innovation process practices in small established firms through the use of five managerial levers considered to determine the process. Based on a case-stu...

This paper is concerned with models of the innovation process. It takes the perspective that innovation is a non-linear process where development paths emerge from the process of ‘imagining’ and ‘doing’, iterating around in evolutionary cycles until a satisfactory innovation emerges. To support this we have developed a model of the innovation process called Creative Innovation Development (CID)...

Few academic studies have investigated how information technology (IT) capability and service process innovation can create performance gains for firms through customer service. We propose that customer service is a significant mediator through which IT capability and service process innovation influence the performance of a firm, and that IT capability is also a critical factor that facilitate...

– This paper describes an experimental approach to model an innovation process on the basis of principles and concepts of complexity theory and its possible implications on the outcome of the innovation process. It is part of ongoing research carried out at the University of Nyenrode in the Netherlands, at the Nyenrode Institute of Virtual Education and Knowledge Management. In this paper the i...

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innova...