This paper considers the interrelationship between innovation and the control of the supply-chain in consumer-driven industries. In particular the paper employs the concepts of Control and Innovation Networks as an analytical framework to examine the coordination of the supply-chain and inter-organisational collaboration. In-depth empirical evidence is provided by two cases industries: the UK s...

This paper presents the NEFFICS platform, which is a software platform as a basis for a new innovation driven ecology for networked enterprises, extended on top of an established cloud-based, software-as-a-service business operation platform, combined with an advanced innovation management software platform. The business context and value of the new platform will be demonstrated and validated i...

Due to the growing importance of data-driven innovation, multiple streams literature that offer varying definitions and frameworks for using data analytics in innovation have emerged. This eventually resulted synonymously used terminology overlapping concepts leading a lack clarity transparency. paper investigates different aspects variations existing classification approaches, such as taxonomi...

Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between them, not...

The innovative nature of e-mentoring along with its ongoing adoption process provided the reasons for conducting an innovation–adoption study on e-mentoring. A sample of 234 mentors that have been employed by Ergani Center, a well respected Greek mentoring organization, were asked to identify with the use of an online questionnaire the factors that influence the adoption of e-mentoring. Gender,...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...

In an attempt to enhance debate focused on an established academic controversy, this study re-investigated selected data from the 1994 AMC survey of Australian and New Zealand manufacturing practices to test the hypothesis that best practice and product innovation may be incompatible generic business strategies. A modification of Robert G. Cooper’s Stage-Gate product development model was used ...

Innovation in form of new products, processes or forms of productive organisation brings growth to firms and development to economies and therefore it is important to understand sources of innovation and technological capabilities. In this context this paper explores sources of innovation and technological capability in the Indian automobile industry. In last decade Indian auto industry emerged...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the emerging organisational network topology of the new knowledge-driven economy in order to identify critical success factors in the process of innovation. The central argument of the paper is that innovation constitutes the foundation of the competitiveness and value-creation capabilities of economic organisations. However, innovation is not some...