The study reported here is a secondary analysis of data collected in 10 schools as part of Israel’s participation in two international studies: IEA’s SITES Module 2, focusing on innovative pedagogical practices at the classroom level, and the OECD/CERI case studies of ICT and organizational innovation, focusing on ICT-related innovations at the school system level. We identify and analyze two p...

This paper considers the economics of digitalisation, defined as the digital coding of information and the growing productivity gains in processing and transmission it enables. It examines the effects of this process on existing models of the firm, industry structure and innovation. The diffusion and adoption of digital innovations are then illustrated by the example of the automobile industry....

Introduction: Health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. In such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. Excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. Materials & Methods: This study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Data gathered by a standard chec...

We introduce a collective action model of institutional innovation. This model, based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements literature, views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors espousing conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions. The model repre...

Research from a variety of perspectives has argued that innovation no longer takes place within a single organization, but rather is distributed across multiple stakeholders in a value network. Here we contrast the vertically integrated innovation model to open innovation, user innovation, as well as other distributed processes (cumulative innovation, communities or social production, and co-cr...

1.1 In recent years more and more social scientists and in particular economists have been using simulation models. Without doubt numerical approaches—among them most outstanding agent-based approaches—offer a prolific way out of the tight corset which is determining modelling strategies so far for economists (e.g. Pyka and Fagiolo 2007). Accordingly, simulation techniques are applied almost en...

The BIVEE project addresses the challenge of innovation management in Virtual Enterprise Environments. BIVEE aims to formalize the processes and models for improvement and innovation management in virtual enterprises by developing a conceptual framework and corresponding ICT platform. In this paper, we present a document centric approach towards the identification and formalization of the docum...

In this paper, I identify the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets as a new source of radical innovation. By focusing managerial attention on creating awareness, access, affordability, and availability (4As), managers can create an exciting environment for innovation. I suggest that external constraints can be utilized to build an innovation sandbox within which new products and business models ...