The changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. Science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. The main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. With the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

Due to the rapid changing environment, shortening product life cycles, and increasing cost of R&D (Research and Development), the company cannot maintain its competitiveness by only relying on its internal R&D capability. Unlike the traditional closed innovation in the enterprise, open innovation and wikinomics have changed the innovation model and create a new way to success. The concepts of o...

We analyse the hitherto unexplored relationship between intra-firm conflict between the research and development (R&D) department and central management, conflict alleviation and the choice of ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ innovation, in the context of a simple formal model. We find that in the presence of (intentional or unintentional) divergence of preferred (R&D) output between the R&D department a...

The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. The huge economics literature flourished in the last couple of decades on the subject broadly falls into two distinct research traditions, namely themainstreamR&D spillovers approach and the evolutionary economics view. Both traditions ag...

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

The Innovation Mill (IM) is an initiative which has been established in collaboration mainly among Nokia Corporation, Technopolis, and Tekes. Nokia Corporation provides its non-core ideas to other existing and start-ups companies through IM to turn these ideas into valuable products and services. Nokia idea database consists of enormous number of ideas that are non-core to it. Companies earn gr...

since the attractiveness of an artwork roots in its structural strength, and since it can, depending on its linguistic, expressive and aesthetic usage, make an artwork outstanding to the rate that being considered, socially, as a literary word; taking the alignment of the poem and meter in khaghani word, we are going to analyze his poetry for the type of his linguistic and expressive usage. for...

this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

VII Inhaltsübersicht IX Inhaltsverzeichnis XI Abbildungsverzeichnis XVII Tabellenverzeichnis XIX Abkürzungsverzeichnis XXI 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Motivationsrahmen 2 1.2 Relevanz des Themas und Problemstellung 3 1.3 Forschungsfokus 8 1.4 Aufbau der'Arbeit 10 1.5 Konventionen 13 2 Forschungsdesign.') 15 2.1 Forschungskontext 16 2.1.1 Forschungsmethodik 17 2.1.1.1 Quantitative Ansätze 17 2.1.1.2 Qual...