The academic literature, and business practice, reveals a shift in the way analysts understand innovation processes. This shift is not revealed as a cohesive trend, rather it comprises contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines and empirical evidence. Building on Edquist (1997) this paper ties together the diverse new ideas which stress a systems approach to successful innovation. ...

In this paper we describe our participation in the Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) task of the QA track. We investigated the use of lexical cohesive ties (called lexical bonds) between sentences containing different question entities in finding information about relationships between these entities. We also investigated the role of clarification forms in assisting the system in fi...

This paper determines how different network structures influence the diffusion of innovations. We develop a model of diffusion where: 1. an individual’s decision to adopt a new technology is influenced by his contacts; and 2. contacts can discuss, coordinate, and make adoption decisions together. A measure of connectedness, ‘cohesion’, determines diffusion. A cohesive community is defined as a ...

The research is entitled Reference in Narrative Texts. Writer investigates hypothesis focused on reference usage.  as a part of cohesive devices grammatical cohesion, and narrative mode genre text. developed distribution frequency device. objectives this are to analyze describe (1) entities or piece informations appear refer the same referent; (2) indicator genre; (3) accurance links within t...

• Lexical cohesion on YouTube is multimodal, cross-modal and intertextual. Cohesive ties exist between the video comments as well comments. A discussion may appear fragmented but still show dense cohesion. Qualitative corpus methods reveal how fragmentation a feature surface only. This paper investigates use functions of lexical within across modes levels interaction channel, arguing that contr...

Recent scholarship suggests that collaboration between a firm’s headquarters personnel and indigenous overseas inventors enhances innovation by the latter. We explore how headquarters inventors’ physical proximity and intrafirm ethnic networks influence this knowledge spillover. Data from 104 U.S. multinational firms show that collaboration between inventors in the U.S. and on-site collaboratio...

This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties cohesion errors in written narratives eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote narrative text response picture prompt. young learners’ texts were examined identify their four categories: lexical,...

I review network aspects of human dynamics that link macro-historical to microsociological and evolutionary processes. The ability to bond in communities of varying spatial scales is a special property of humans that happens through social networks. These networks have greater cohesion through invulnerability to disconnection without removal of k nodes. Menger’s (1927) connectivity theorem show...