A customer experiences “lock-in” when switching costs exceed the potential incremental value of alternative suppliers’ products over its current supplier’s product. Customers may regret this state of affairs if they would have been better off having secured the alternative product from the start, or more simply, if the switching costs were substantially lower than the incremental value of the a...

Most collectively funded healthcare systems set limits to their benefit package. Doing so requires judgements which may involve economic evaluations. Performing such evaluations brings methodological challenges, be more pronounced in non-pharmaceutical interventions. For example, for medical devices, the validity of assessment results limited by learning effects, incremental innovation devices ...

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

This paper presents a research study that investigated the rank of influence innovative initiatives' groups and determined importance initiatives to successful implementation solar energy adoption in UAE. The information was gathered via questionnaire survey analysed descriptively. findings this work include ranking analysis initiatives, which revealed administrative innovation ranks first, fol...

In the paper, a theoretical framework that combines multidimensional conceptualization of dynamic capabilities (sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring) with two leadership styles (transactional transformational) types eco-innovation (incremental radical) was developed empirically tested. The purpose this study is to answer key question: how different influence potential generate ecological changes...

We demonstrate that the concepts of competence destroying and competence enhancing are composed of two distinct constructs which, although correlated, separately characterize an innovation: new competence acquisition and competence enhancement/destruction. We develop scales to measure these constructs and show that new competence acquisition and competence enhancing/destroying are different fro...

This paper develops a framework for analyzing the competitive implications of innovation. The framework is based on the concept of transilience the capacity of an innovation to influence the established systems of production and marketing. Application of the concept results in a categorization of innovation into four types. Examples from the technical history of the US auto industry are used to...

A multi-agent simulation embodying a theory of innovation networks has been built and used to suggest a number of policy-relevant conclusions. The simulation animates a model of innovation (the successful exploitation of new ideas) and this model is briefly described. Agents in the model representing firms, policy actors, research labs, etc. each have a knowledge base that they use to generate ...

Although it retains a central position in the main theories of innovation, there are few studies that examine the factors that provide inducements for process innovation at the firm level. Using a large scale survey of UK manufacturing firms, we explore different explanations for why firms develop process innovations. Contrasting the sources of incremental and radical process innovation, our st...