Abstract The paper provides a novel, empirically grounded map of innovation ‘clubs’ in the EU, based on unique analysis micro-aggregated, country-level data. Using exploratory factor we articulate variables taxonomy four ‘latent’ theories: Network-Innovation-System , Kaldorian New-Growth-Theory and Schumpeterian . We then characterise clusters countries (‘clubs’), their performance against this...

This paper theoretically examined how key success factors (KSFs) of new product development process, as a new dimension of marketing concept and value creation, could be exploited through learning outside the firm or through customer involvement in key stages of the development process. Such collaborative relationshipthough suffers scholarly neglect in Nigeria, costly and perhaps difficult to a...

Innovation is broadly seen as an essential component of competitiveness, embedded in the organizational structures, processes, products, and services within a firm. The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of the organizational, process, product, and marketing innovations on the different aspects of firm performance, including innovative, production, market, and financial performan...

In contrast to the prevailing supply-side explanation that price decreases are the key driver of a sales take-off, we argue that outward shifting supply and demand curves lead to market take-off. Our fundamental idea is that sales in new markets are initially low since the first commercialized forms of new innovations are primitive. Then, as new firms enter, actual and perceived product quality...

Motivated by recent empirical observations made in industries like the automobile industry, this paper employs an agent-based industry simulation model to examine the strategic relationship between product diversification strategies in an industry and some aspects of the product innovation strategy of a single producer. In particular, it is established that an increase in the average degree of ...

Studies on enterprise innovations have established the relationships between a number of determinants and enterprise innovativeness. However, such studies in general have been conducted in developed economies. Recent literature has called for broadening innovation-related research to other contexts, such as countries that are not considered " developed. " This study aims at examining how firms ...

Studies of product compositions and deuterium-label rearrangements at various concentrations of tri-n-butyltin hydride in the reductions of exo-and endo-5-bromonorbornene and 2-bromonortricyclcne to mixtures of norbornene and nortricyclene lead to three main conclusions: (i) at least two radical intermediates contribute to product formation; (ii) each intermediate yields predominantly (80% or m...

A FRESH LOOK AT INCREMENTAL AND RADICAL INNOVATION IN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM Highly innovative and entrepreneurial firms, those generating ideas aimed at new and enhanced products, manufacturing processes and services, require entrepreneurial leaders who successfully manage the innovation process to discover or create, and then exploit opportunities (Oster, 1994: Venkataraman & Shane, 1998). ...

This research introduces the scale of innovation intensity (SIIN) based on meta-taxonomy that subsumes other, less comprehensive taxonomies. The SIIN is similar to seismic scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes. The intensity of technological change is measured by an indicator, called Magnitude, based on the impact of technological innovations on the economic system. The theory is a...