This article examines the diffusion and adoption process of an electronic service delivery innovation, which can be seen as an example of e-policing – called SMS-alert – among Dutch police forces. Important is not only to pay attention to the question how an innovation has spread-and the factors and mechanisms that stimulated or frustrated this process-but also to the reasons why an innovation ...

Drawing from institutional and bandwagon theories, we develop and examine how characteristics of an innovation—radicality and scope—affect diffusion rates—the extent and speed of diffusion. The hypotheses are empirically tested with a sample of 82 new product innovations in three separate industries over a sixteen-year time span. We find that: (1) the greater the radicality of innovation, the h...

We investigate whether foreign institutional ownership impacts corporate innovation. Using firm-level data from 30 countries in 2001-2010, we find that higher foreign institutional ownership is associated with more investment in R&D and patents. Using the exogenous increase in foreign institutional holdings that follows a firm’s addition to the Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index, ...

This section positively but critically explores three perspectives that may explain incremental innovation of craft exporters in emerging economies. The first perspective is that of innovation systems. Ever since 1987, studies on innovation systems have greatly contributed to our understanding of innovation. Scholars on innovation systems in emerging economies have added the notion that innovat...

The most effective approach to agricultural technology promotion and innovation is still a source of considerable debate, and nowhere more so than in the context of agricultural engineering hardware. Contemporary perspective on agricultural innovation stress the importance of institutional change and give emphasis to the need to develop innovation capacity in systems terms rather address limita...

Integrating political, industrial and healthcare systems has been a major challenge for politics of innovation and development policy in low and middle income countries. This challenge has so far been understood in terms of separate industrial and health related innovation policies without paying adequate attention to the institutional roles of biopharmaceutical and other umbrella associations....