The emergence of the Internet as a commercial tool galvanized a gale of Schumpeterian investment and economic restructuring. In 2002 amidst the wreckage of that investment hurricane it should be interesting to reflect upon what was permanent and what appears to have been more fleeting. This paper uses the national system of innovation (NIS) framework to examine the context within which the Inte...

teleworking as an innovative way has many benefits in governmental, organizational and individual levels, but it faced with different variables in plan and implementation which is caused to low acceptance rate in organizations. by identifying and controlling these variables, managers and decision-makers can use teleworking programs in their organizations. the aim of this study is to investigate...

today, teaching language through the use of technology has become considerably widespread in many countries. the present research aims to investigate the extent to which computer software and new technologies are employed in teaching persian language. in addition, it studies the reasons for success or failure of these tools. the study, which was conducted in a comparative framework, used a rese...

This paper presents a synthetic framework identifying the central drivers of start-up commercialization strategy and the implications of these drivers for industrial dynamics. We link strategy to the commercialization environment – the microeconomic and strategic conditions facing a firm that is translating an " idea " into a value proposition for customers. The framework addresses why technolo...

T effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1980 and 1996, we explore the influence of several appropriab...

f f B d t t H m t ( Innovations in biomedical technology have made a significant impact on the lives of patients, paved the way for new areas of research, and been a driver of economic prosperity. Advances in biotechnology and medical devices have been major forces in haping healthcare.1 In the 2 decades leading up to this century, innovations in medical technology have been estimated to contri...