It is widely recognized that innovation is an activity of strategic importance. However, organizations seeking to be innovative face many dilemmas. Perhaps the main one is that, though it is necessary to innovate, innovation is a highly risky activity. In this paper, we explore the origin of product innovation, which is new product ideation. We discuss new product ideation approaches and their ...

This article suggests that effective clinical leadership leads to innovation. Innovation leads to change and that change leads to improvements in care, service, quality and professionalism. However, for this process to develop, clinical leadership needs to be clearly understood, clinical leaders need to be recognized, by their organizations and by themselves, and opportunities for genuine innov...

A recurring methodological problem in the evaluation of the predictive validity of selection methods is that the values of the criterion variable are available for selected applicants only. This so-called range restriction problem causes biased population estimates. Correction methods for direct and indirect range restriction scenarios have widely studied for continuous criterion variables but ...

It tends to be generally recognized that firms need to be innovative in order to sustain their competitive advantage (e.g. Brown and Eisenhardt, 1997; Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Leonard-Barton, 1995; McGrath, 2001; Tsai, 2001). Innovation can be regarded as a business process which creates unique and perceptive ideas that are being pushed towards commercial success (e.g. Verloop, 2004). With th...

Organizations are recognized today as part of business ecosystems that conduct activities with business partners in a cooperative fashion. In our research we focus particularly on activities related to innovation in such inter-organizational co-operations. The role of information systems (IS) in interorganizational cooperative innovation activities is significant. Boundary objects are used to u...

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...