This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

Purpose The paper takes an institutional approach to the analysis of organisational-level challenges of IS innovation in public organisations. It seeks to answer the question: how can the challenges of IS innovation in public organisations, presented by the interactions between IT and public bureaucracy, be explained and addressed? Design/methodology/approach Empirical study approached with an ...

Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter suggests that social movements are important sources of cultural innovation and identifies the scope conditions under which social movements create new organizational forms. By doing so, it lends substance to the notion of inst...

The purpose of this paper is to pave the way for making possible the start of articulating together the mutual roles of the institutional and organizational dimensions of the innovation generation. We are rather under the impression that recent studies on innovation, focusing on one or the other of those dimensions, that have allowed a better knowledge and understanding of the highly complex me...

This paper discuss findings of a follow-up study with alumni of three graduate courses known as "professional master" oriented toward institutional innovation in management of science and technology, offered by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation to its employees. The study analyzed alumni profile and characteristics, identified evidence of changes in their original workplace and assessed the relationship ...

Ronald C. Jantz is Digital Library Architect at Rutgers University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. edu. © 2012 Ronald C. Jantz, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The objective of this paper is two-fold: to propose a theoretical framework and model for studying organizational innovation in research libraries and to set forth propositions t...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach focuses attention directly on the types of...

1 Introduction The national innovation system (NIS) approach brings an alternative to the traditional view of innovation as a process of radical change in frontier sectors. The NIS approach offers a conceptual instrumental extremely useful for the understanding of the innovation dynamics at local, regional and national levels. However, as emphasized by Cassiolato and Lastres (2000), there are s...