Many western countries are pursuing innovation-led ‘smart’ growth so to rebalance away from consumer debt driven growth and ‘financialization’. This paper argues that innovation-led growth is a major battle that requires public policy to fundamentally change from one that views the goal of government as simply fixing markets to one that views it in terms of actively creating and shaping markets...

Traditional food products (TFP) are an important part of European culture, identity, and heritage. In order to maintain and expand the market share of TFP, further improvement in safety, health, or convenience is needed by means of different innovations. The aim of this study was to obtain a consumer-driven definition for the concept of TFP and innovation and to compare these across six Europea...

Article history: Received 7 March 2012 Received in revised form 10 May 2012 Accepted 18 May 2012 Available online xxxx The open innovationmodel embraces the purposiveflowof internal and external ideas as a foundation for innovation and network formation. While the open innovation paradigm has been successfully applied in high-tech settings, there is a lack of research on adopters of open innova...

Derives from the National Innovation System (NIS) approach, and based on some prominent weakness in China’s National Innovation System (NIS), this paper argues that China’s National Innovation Platform (NIP) program places more emphasis on the infrastructure of innovation and can be seen as an early stage to form a completed innovation system, and aims at combining the efforts and resources of ...

the extensive use of traditional irrigation systems has led to overexploitation of groundwater and overuse of surface water in theurmia  lake catchment (ulc) area ofiran. the purpose of this study was to model the adoption process of drip irrigation system (dis) by apple orchardists (aos) using the five stages of roger’s model for innovation decision process (idp). survey method of applying que...

A new culture of participation and social innovation is driven by advances in Web technology and the proliferation of social media platforms. The document editing environment introduced in this paper reflects this trend, enabling users to collaboratively create and edit documents. In order to support this process, the system provides tailored information services in the form of content recommen...

The idea of community has lurked in various forms in organization studies since the field’s inception, but its recent prominence as a critical precondition for innovation makes urgent the resolution of two theoretical puzzles. Both puzzles can be stated in the terms suggested by Tönnies’ classic contrast of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, community and association. First, it is difficult to reco...

Student interest in design research has strengthened over the last eight years. Design research is an emergent and diverse field, particularly at schools such as Design Studies, COFA, UNSW, which emphasize integration and inter-disciplinarity. At the same time, there is a paucity of models for supervisors of design research programs. Thus, researchers and supervisors of Honours, Masters and Doc...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence innovation in smart service systems conceptualize how actor’s relationships through technology-enabled interactions can give birth novel technologies, processes, strategies and value. objectives study are: detect different enablers that activate systems; these lead dynamically patterns. Design/methodology/approach empirical research ...