innovation could be recognized as a key factor in anincreasingly competitive environments and it is difficult to find anindustry that is not engaged in innovation. however, innovation successand achievement to important advantages such as performanceimprovement is not easy and it relies on applying innovation strategiesfrom firms' top managers and consultants. the objective of this paper i...

innovation can be represented as a knowledge transformation process perceived with different levels of granularity. The milestones of this process allow assessment for each step of it and set up feedback loops that will be highlighted. This innovation process is a good starting point to understand innovation and then to manage it. Best practices being patterns of processes, we describe innovati...

The literature increasingly recognizes the interactive nature of innovation processes. Biomedical innovation, in particular, tends to be highly interactive. Given the ubiquitous nature of interactivity in biomedical innovation, we argue that the concept of innovation being interactive or distributed is not sufficiently differentiated to capture variation in the management and organization of in...

The increasing complexity of business and social settings has lead to innovation becoming a strategic imperative. The need for innovation in the quest for competitive advantage also means that firms must be dynamic and flexible. This is often achieved through collaborative arrangements such as alliances. Many organizations form alliances by leveraging their resources to gain access to the partn...

in today's economy of knowledge and globalization, innovation as the ability to apply new knowledge to improve the production process and create new goods and services has been recognized as an undeniable efficiency. a dynamic economy is in need of efficient human capital which includes elites, professionals and entrepreneurs to come up with innovative and competitive ideas. brain drain in some...