background: in the present knowledge-oriented era, potential capabilities of individuals need to be used and innovation and creativity should be created. self-management is a set of strategies that an individual applies in order to improve and influence his behavior. it plays a significant role as a hidden capital in establishing a suitable environment for creating innovation. the purpose of th...

Since the concepts of "customer innovation" (2002) and “crowdsourcing” (2006) were introduced, researchers have focused their attention on the phenomenon of crowdsourcing innovation. Relevant research includes the crowd’s characteristics, the crowd’s applicability in different phases of developing innovations, and instrumental aspects of web-based crowd innovation. However, there has been no re...

Service innovation has been discussed by many authors, but usually not from a system perspective. Recent literature about service systems and service innovation stresses multi-partner commercial offerings, ecosystems of interacting suppliers and consumers, globalization, and the changing nature of advanced economies. Interesting as these large-scale topics are, discussions at that level tend to...

In previous chapters, the illustration of Thai economy was reflected through its public policy and planning development under economic and social development ambitions in over last four decades, including understanding of Thai national innovation system by evaluation of present status, roles, main activities and interactive linkages of three key players. These analytical exercises underlined th...

Nowadays, manufacturing companies are pressured to be competitive and innovative. Particularly this concerns the delivery of value to their customers. The assessment of the overall value chain, designed and implemented for a specific product and/or service, should be sustained by new business models (NBM), thus contributing to higher levels of customer satisfaction. Integrated product-services ...

The electricity industry is currently confronted with regulatory and technological change that leads to fundamental transformation of the value propositions and innovation processes of enterprises. New services are one possibility to compete in the new market environment. This paper proposes a service development process for the electricity industry that builds up on existing approaches. The pr...

Grutters et al show that economic assessments can inform the development of new health technologies at an early stage. This is an important contribution to health services and policy research, which implies a “shift away” from the more traditional forms of academic health economic modeling. Because transforming established disciplinary traditions is both valuable and de...

Special attention to the relative advantages of the economy is the best way toward economic development in every country. Owing to its considerable natural oil and gas resources, Iran has a high potential for the development of these industries. In the value chain process of these God-given resources, a wide diversity of final downstream petrochemical products has a significant charm and scope ...

Background: This article sets up the initial discussion of the evolution of biopharmaceutical innovation in China through the perspective of sectoral innovation system (SIS).Methods: Two data sources including archival documentary data and field interviews were used in this study. Archival documentary data was collected from China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) and Chinese National Knowled...