A comprehensive model for the management, monitoring and assessment of the innovation projects implemented by the local government is presented. The model is based on the classic Deming PDCA quality-oriented process. It is defined in collaboration with our local government partner in order to measure the effective impact of the innovation policies developed by the public administrations. An “eG...

About the Report: The Conference Board has recently undertaken a project on innovation and competitiveness, with funding from Microsoft Corporation. The goal of the project is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge on the nature of innovation, and its role in stimulating economic growth and improved living standards in the U.S. The project draws on experts across the academic,...

Closed innovation approaches have been employed for many years in the food industry. But, this sector recently perceives its end-user to be wary of radically new products and changes in consumption patterns. However, new product development involves not only the product itself but also the entire manufacturing and distribution network. In this paper, we present a new ICT based framework that em...

This paper presents an overview of the recent literature on innovation and – in particular – regional innovation systems. The analysis focuses on innovation systems, considering first the institutional environment (macroinstitutions, public research infrastructures, financial institutions...) and the level at which it is relevant for innovation activities: local systems of innovation are here a...

This paper focuses upon the performance of innovation systems from an output perspective. Innovation performance measurement is considered as increasingly interesting by several scholars during last years. It is also important as basis for the design and implementation of innovation policies. Different methodologies dealing with innovation performance are found not only in the literature but al...

Purpose: The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of transformational leadership and transactional contingent reward as complementary, but distinct, forms of leadership on facets of organizational identification via the perception of innovation and goal organizational values. Design/Methodology/Approach: Three studies were carried out implementing either a measurement of mediation...

the currect study was conducted with the aim of designing and presenting a model of measurement for cultural development in the field of citizens’ innovation and cultual products. the study wasconductedwith objectives in which, indicators and components presented in unesco 2000 and abdi et al. (2015) model of measurement for cultural development were presented to 34 people in the form of a ques...