This report presents an initial analysis of the knowledge-intensive service activities for the software business sector. The purpose of the KISA-SWC project is to i) survey and analyze the current situation of the offering and use of the knowledge-intensive service activities in the software business, ii) describe and analyze the innovation process in the software business sector from the point...

It seems clear that innovation is a key factor in increasing competitiveness of European enterprises in a global market with new players from developing countries. It also seems clear that innovation in organizations must necessarily be based on an open concept that allows them to take advantage of ideas, competences and external resources, hence the concept of Collaborative Networks. Among the...

To bridge the gap between invention and innovation, prenovation has to be focused. One of the elements of prenovation is emphasizing and creating policies for institutions. This research paper highlights the importance of having an intrapreneurial culture in higher education institutions. The purpose of this paper is to review literature related to intrapreneurial culture and find out the posit...

DRUID, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Center for Service Innovation, Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway; Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale, University G. d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy; Department of Business and Management, LUISS University, Rom...

This paper presents the findings from a large-scale empirical investigation into the impact of external intervention into business process improvement using a hybrid model of knowledge transfer (KT). Through the utilization of a survey instrument with 696 respondents, the research explores the insights into a phased approached to sustainable external intervention. Analysis of the empirical data...

In this paper, we examine whether a failure-tolerant corporate culture spurs corporate innovation and increases firm value based on a sample of venture capital (VC) backed IPO firms. We develop a novel firm-specific measure of a failure-tolerant corporate culture hinging on the idea that the formation of corporate culture is largely determined by the attitudes and beliefs of its founders and ea...