a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to investigate the effects of supplier collaboration on the firm innovation performance as well as the enabling characteristics of the purchasing function. This is an original contribution as few papers empirically test the effect of supplier collaboration (meant as supplier involvement, development, and integration) on innovation performance and — simultan...

We thank all the contributors for their wide-ranging and provocative discussion. Our reply is organised according to a number of recurring themes, but space constraints mean it is impossible to address all the points raised. Echoing S. Brooks’ opening remarks, our hope is that discussants and readers will be sufficiently inspired to pursue the ideas proposed in this paper and address some of th...

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a “medical anti-commons” has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that shed light on this issue are mainly from developed countries, making it very difficult to predict the i...

Combinatorial property testing deals with the following relaxation of decision problems: Given a fixed property and an input f , one wants to decide whether f satisfies the property or is ‘far’ from satisfying the property. It has been shown that regular languages are testable, and that there exist context free language which are not testable. We show that there exists a language that is accept...

In order to develop an innovation in a large, mature organization, individuals often have to go underground, secretly undertaking ?bootleg? R&D activities that have no formal organizational support. As yet, there have been few studies that examine how such efforts shape the ability of an individual to generate innovations for their organization. We argue that these underground R&D efforts will ...

an important determinant of health system performance is contracting. providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

BACKGROUND European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not wel...

Science and technology are seen as important determinants for survival and growth of companies, regions and nations (Schumpter,1934) and are related to new theories of economic development, technological change and industrial innovation.(Dosi et al 1990;Romer 1990). In order to reach technology based economic growth, it is not only necessary to invest capital, intellect and time in science and ...