Many studies have explored service innovations regarding the use of information technologies, yet few have addressed the strategic leveraging in IT investment for sustaining competitiveness. The objective of this paper is to examine different strategies that firms have applied in leveraging advanced information technologies for service innovation in highly competitive market. The analysis of st...

Open innovation platforms (web sites where crowds post ideas in a shared space) enable us to elicit huge volumes of potentially valuable solutions for problems we care about, but identifying the best ideas in these collections can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. This paper presents an approach, called the "bag of lemons", which enables crowd to filter ideas with accuracy superior...

This paper aims to highlight a link between publishing business innovation and how editors manage creativity in the digital era. Examining the changing industrial and historical business context for the U.K. magazine publishing industry, two case studies are analyzed as representatives of different ends of the publishing company spectrum (one a newly launched magazine published by a major, the ...

When a newly completed urban area does not conform to the visions, this brings disappointment for the residents and losses for the service providers in the area. In order to specify process innovations required in urban development, we conceptualise new urban areas as service innovations, and compare urban development to new service development. We conclude that developing urban areas as a proc...

Today, innovation systems are being elaborated in ever-wider areas of national space-economies. Of particular interest is the growth of academic study and practical policy towards assisting formation of regional innovation systems. Over 100 of these empirical studies have been documented worldwide and in the EU over 100 regional innovation strategies were implemented in the past decade. But new...

State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chem Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Scie Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 21 cn; [email protected] Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Minis Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Instit 214063, China † Electronic supplementary information (E qRT-PCR assay, western blot assay, feas assay, and specic measurement of RISC. Cite this: Chem. Sci., 2017...

The purpose of this report is to examine the topic of organisational innovation. This is a vast multi-disciplinary area of research and is a relatively new area of inquiry. The literature reviewed is empirical, management-oriented research from an organisationa l perspective and is sourced from peer-reviewed journals. The objectives of the review are: 1) to understand the current state of resea...

deveLopment oF a wide-view visuaL presentation system and estimating human primary visuaL corticaL magniFication by using Fmri For traFFic saFety Jinglong WU Professor and Lab. head, Bio-Measurement engineering Laboratory Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences, The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan Fengzhe JIN Graduate School of engineerin...

Successful innovation often requires the application of many different areas of expertise by a variety of organizations and other players. Some innovation proceeds as a variety of ideas and possibilities bouncing through society and the marketplace until someone finds the last piece and an innovation is born. Other innovations are put in place by entrepreneurial heroes working like Ford or Edis...

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. Part of this knowledge will reach the firm from external sources. Several authors have documented the existence of these external information flows and have commented on their importance for decisions at the firm level (Adam B. One challenge facing this literature has been the measuremen...