Studies on Innovation management are often focused on large compa‐ nies and organizations. On the other side, small companies or VSE (Very Small Entities), constitute a significant part of the entrepreneurial landscape, and contribute – in a great extent – to the economic outputs of society and to the creation of employment. This is also valid for the system and software engineering business ar...

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on data from the European inno...

BACKGROUND Digital innovation, introduced across many industries, is a strong force of transformation. Some industries have seen faster transformation, whereas the health care sector only recently came into focus. A context where digital corporations move into health care, payers strive to keep rising costs at bay, and longer-living patients desire continuously improved quality of care points t...

User information is an important source of user-centered innovation. Through the investigation of 47 user-centered case studies collected from leading design consulting firms, this study aims to establish the relationship between user-research and design innovation, to identify the research characteristics and analytic models critical to each innovation situation, and to discuss where, why, and...

The relevance of the topic economic models innovative activity based on digital platforms is due, firstly, to importance transition modern economy an development path; secondly, analyzing international experience in systems order possibly use approaches that have developed world form a national model development. purpose this study determine possibility using implementing individual countries s...

This study investigates how two competing capital structure theories: the pecking order and the static trade-off models, impact financing decisions in multinational interand intra-firm innovation collaborations. The results show that for the pecking order model, debt repayment, working capital, capital expenditure and operating cash flow are the main variables determining a deficiency in intern...

The paper describes five open innovation business models collaboration, outsourcing, licensing, trading and incorporation defined on the basis of open revenues and costs, new investments and divestments in intangibles. A sample of 271 companies from biopharmaceutical and technology hardware & equipment industries is investigated, and their annual reports for the three years period 2010-2012 are...

Our extensive literature review shows that innovations are fundamental to maintaining competitiveness at both micro- and macro-economic levels. In this study, we address how improve the measurement of their impact on a country’s economic growth. We provide an overview indicators used measure propose three new ones supposed capture knowledge spillover: The Foreign Knowledge Inflow, Domestic Outf...