This paper analyses the influence of marketing and organisational changes on the innovation process. Using data from the German Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2007, two questions are investigated. Firstly, do certain firm and market characteristics trigger certain innovation strategies? This allows the examination of whether product/ process (PP) and marketing/ organisational (MO) innovation...

The dynamic information field is characterized by the constant ebbs and flows of innovations in information technologies (IT). Accordingly, managing information and formulating policies in the iField require understanding IT innovations – what they are and will be, who develops and/or adopts them, and how innovations may be effectively developed, implemented, and used. Despite a relatively sust...

The authors investigated the typology and characteristics of recent technology innovation in particleboard and composite materials. Conducting a cluster analysis of data derived from a content analysis of the International Particleboard/Composite Materials Symposium Proceedings, they identified four major clusters of like-type technology innovations – manufacturing, high technology, materials p...

We study the dynamic relation between daily stock returns and innovations in option-derived implied volatilities. By simultaneously analyzing innovations in index-level and firm-level implied volatilities, we distinguish between innovations in systematic and idiosyncratic volatility in an effort to better understand the asymmetric volatility phenomenon. Our results indicate that the relation be...

Innovations are continuously launched over markets, such as new products over the retail market or new artists over the music scene. Some innovations become a success; others don't. Forecasting which innovations will succeed at the beginning of their lifecycle is hard. In this paper, we provide a data-driven, large-scale account of the existence of a special niche among early adopters, individu...

There is increasing consensus that institutional innovations are just as important for development as technological innovations. Polycentric systems are social systems of many autonomous decision centers operating under an overarching set of rules. The rural poor hold positions in polycentric systems, which are marginalized as a result of poverty, exclusion and degraded environments. Horizontal...