In recent years regional policy has become more and more concerned with the improvement of the innovation capacity and performance of firms. Many regional development strategies have as key elements the support of their regional innovation systems and innovative clusters of firms. It has been recognized that increasing the technological level, the value added and the competitiveness of a region...

1. OPEN INNOVATION Open innovation was defined by Henry Ches-broug, a professor at Harvard Business School, in 2003. He believes that in an open innovation model, companies should use internal and external strength to develop new products and to commercialize them (Chesbrough, 2005). Figure 1 shows the open innovation model. In the closed innovation model, the steps from new products developmen...

Service innovation is recognized as a fundamental source of competitive advantage in B2B settings, with positive effects on customers, business partners, employees, and society. Scholars have pointed out that innovation does not result from a single economic actor but from a complex process in which a range of actors interact. Previous studies on service innovation in B2B highlight the integrat...

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...

This paper examines the implications for research into the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and national systems of innovation (NSI) in the innovation process. The second area deals with the argument that enterprises must move from a “closed innovation” to an “open innovatio...

purpose: this research seeks to determine the level of knowledge sharing, the absorptive capacity, and the innovation capability at the central libraries of the state universities of tehran in 1393. besides, it seeks to identify the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation capability in the library. methodology: this applied research is carried out using survey method – correlation...