The healthcare profession has a reputation as a very conservative occupation. As a result, innovation in medicine comes about very slowly. There are numerous examples from medical history where innovators were sanctioned and even ostracized for their new ideas and recommendations to make medical care for patients better. This also applies to the business of medicine. This article will discuss e...

Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of innovation as a critical success factor in business performance (e.g., Baker and Sinkula, 2002: tinyurl.com/ qb9ht7l; Damanpour et al., 1989: tinyurl.com/plm9gp2; Hult et al., 2004: tinyurl.com/nyns9qa; Jiménez-Jimenez et al., 2008: tinyurl.com/khxlmjl; Roberts, 1999: tinyurl.com/ksapsre). Leading global corporation such as Apple Inc., 3G, and...

We explore the relationship between inequality and demand structure in an endogenous growth model where consumers expand consumption along a hierarchy of needs and desires. The consumption hierarchy is captured by non-homothetic preferences implying that the shape of the demand curves for various goods depends on the distribution of income. This setting enables us to study a mechanism that so f...

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Visualising interactions across urban water systems to explore transition and change processes requires the development of methods and models at different scales. This paper contributes a model representing the network interactions of rainwater harvesting (RWH) infrastructure innovators and other organisations in the UK RWH niche to identify how resilience and sustainability feature within nich...

Research summary We examine how corporate innovators adapt their intraorganizational networks when firms introduce performance-based incentive plans that center on the short-term achievement of individuals' measurable outputs. postulate such prompt individuals to revise goals and reconfigure accordingly. Using co-patenting data, we analyzed cases this redesign by Japanese electronics in 1990s. ...

Dynamin and dynamin-related proteins (DRPs) mediate an array of membrane fission processes. A Tetrahymena DRP has adopted a new role, assisting in nuclear differentiation, a finding that further highlights these proteins - and this ciliate - as biological innovators.

Innovation is increasingly becoming an internationalized process and a strategy that has recently been playing a central role in this scenario is that of R&D collaboration. To assess the outcomes of this strategy we develop an evaluation of Eureka Programme’s impact for the case of Spanish companies participating in this initiative and that had projects finished in the period 2000-2005. A total...

Technology innovators are faced with the question of whether to license an innovation to other firms, and if so, what type of license it should use. This question takes on paramount importance with information technology innovations that lead to new products and services that exhibit network effects. This paper explores the impact of network effects on the licensing choice. The literature sugge...

We investigate how eTwinning, the community for schools in Europe that promotes teacher and school collaboration through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), has grown in its first five years. eTwinning currently attracts over 130’000 teachers in Europe who can be identified as “innovators” in using ICTs in cross-border school collaboration projects. Using the indicator ...