Open Process Innovation – drawing from the literature on Open Innovation and Business Process Management (BPM) – promotes the study of how to systematically make use of knowledge that lies outside of an organization’s boundaries for process innovation initiatives. Open Innovation has been heavily studied for product innovation, however, process innovation has not yet been researched from such p...

Open Process Innovation provides a framework for studying how to systematically make use of knowledge that lies outside of an organization’s boundaries for process innovation initiatives. Here, we seek to investigate into variables that impact on the qualities of Open Process Innovation taking the example of the public sector domain. This paper examines how a lack of resources impacts on BPM. S...

product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. one can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...

Knowledge Supply Chains (KSCs) are the networks that provide knowledge supplies so nourishing one or more business processes carried out by a firm. KSCs are particularly crucial for innovation development processes. The need to recur to open KSCs during the accomplishment of such processes is indeed emphasized by the recent literature on open innovation (Kirschbaum, 2005; Chesbrough, 2006; Gass...

Promoting synergy creation of technology in industrial cluster is the key of advancing innovation ability and technology level. The technology innovation of industrial cluster is synergy innovation process, according to the analysis for activities of innovation. And the paper explains the synergy process of cluster innovation activities. The process includes: technological decision and concept ...

In this paper we use a panel of manufacturing firms in Spain to examine the extent to which they use internal and external sources of information (customers, suppliers, competitors, consultants and universities) to generate product and process innovation. Our results show that, although internal sources are influential, external sources of information are key to achieve innovation performance. ...

"Innovate or Perish" is the nnarketer's cry of the 1960s. And "Perish as You Innovate" could well be the marketing slogan of the 1970s. But several questions arise. Can innovation be programed to occur? What is the nature of the diffusion process? Can consumer "innovators" be identified and appealed to? How do advertising and personal influence compare in effectiveness for new product diffusion...

Business value networks offer new opportunities and chances for innovation-related cooperation. This paper introduces a new innovation process and framework which has been developed in the Texo use case of the Theseus project and which provides a comprehensive yet flexible approach to support multi-stakeholder innovation projects in business ecosystems. One major aim of the proposed framework i...