This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion, benefited from enhanced assimilation, lower cultural diversity and, thus, more intense accumulation of ...

This paper aims to elaborate and to focus on a clash in the production and innovation paradigm of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). At a superficial level we can observe that the ‘traditional paradigm’ in ICT production and innovation is challenged by the emergence of new paradigms. In the last couple of decades, the new emerging models have drawn the attention of several socio-ec...

Innovation Cross-disciplinary cooperation Dr Eric Shiu agreed with Professor Vlad Petre Glăveanu that although the amount of research on creativity is increasing, a corresponding theoretical breakthrough is not apparent. One main culprit is the overwhelming dominance of the quantitative approach in creativity research. Another is the lack of consensus in the definition of creativity. Shiu draws...

During the process of the transformation and innovation of traditional cultural and localized characteristics, we can make old things fashionable through creative design. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness evaluation on cultural creative design of consumers' perception and preference. This study was implemented in two phases. First, we undertook a prel...

Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win–win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution ‘to teach students to be critical about any kin...

Cultivating collective innovation while preserving the interest of the individual contributors is one of the main challenges collaborative innovation networks face. This challenge is riddled with difficulties in managing individuals’ co-innovation risks. The first step toward understanding co-innovation risks is the development of a valid and reliable model to measure the actors’ perception of ...

Entrepreneurs have been traditionally epitomized as rugged individuals garnering creative forces of innovation and technology. Applying this traditional, limited, and narrow view of entrepreneurship to ethnic firm creation and growth is to ignore or discount core cultural values of the ethnic contexts in which these firms operate. It is no longer possible to depend solely on human capital theor...