nowadays, knowledge sharing as one of the components of knowledge management process, has a significant role in organization success. knowledge causes organizations to be able to acquire knowledge faster and more effective than before, and also apply it which therefore cause them to create competitive advantage. this research is an attempt to investigate the effects of knowledge sharing on inno...

Green innovation has been deemed a key corporate capability to deal with environmental issues. The usage of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) provides important resources and knowledge for firms’ green innovation. Drawing on a resources-based approach, this study contributes to the existing literature by examining how the adoption of specific types of AMT (process, design, and planning)...

Despite wide interest in collaborative approaches to innovation, many open innovation projects fail. According to existing literature, one reason for this failure is that firms do not tackle " the mindset challenge " of transitioning from a closed to an open innovation model. This chapter provides insight into the individual decision-making process that determines whether people engage in or re...

Science Fiction Prototyping (SFP) has a lot of potential as a tool to help turn patents into innovative marketable products. The underlying assumption of this paper is that many patents from research institutions and corporations alike lie idle when it comes to their actual realization and commercialization as real products. The conceptual paper focuses on patents that are already applicationce...

The newly evolved trends of transformation in the entrepreneurships, their establishment, operation and management, and subsequent alterations in the entrepreneurship’s knowledge arena has brought out the idea of open innovation, suggesting that ideas for innovations can transpire or go to market from outside the company as well as inside. Leaders among the global entrepreneurships, among other...

While enterprise collaboration has become a significant factor to achieve business success, the distributed structure of virtual enterprise environments still carries new challenges towards successful operation of business processes within these networks. As one group of business process, innovation processes do challenge virtual enterprises to a much higher degree, because new products and ser...

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of academic and practitioner-oriented publications on business models and business model innovation. Indeed, companies that traditionally focused on product and service innovation, are turning toward business model innovation as an alternative or complement to product or process innovation. Nevertheless, companies struggle to innovate the busine...

Recent research suggests that the majority of the Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) ebusiness research focusses primarily on studying innovation diffusion within the SMEs themselves with limited research into the supply-side of innovation diffusion This study examines the supply side of innovation diffusion to SMEs in south east United Kingdom (UK). It aims to examine and provide an ind...

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...