A case study on the design and implementation of a program to use case studies to integrate engineering practice across the Engineering curriculum at the University of Waterloo is presented. A key innovation of this program is the generation of case studies directly from student experience, via conversion of their co-op work term reports into case studies. The principles and practices used for ...

In recent years the proliferation of a new technological evolution has aroused great interest from science and practice: social media. Subsuming different types of online applications where users can create, edit and share content, social media enables new forms of interaction with others. Organisations already recognise its relevance and start leveraging on it. Furthermore, organisations ident...

Organizations are beginning to experiment with the use of the “crowd” to complete tasks commonly performed by employees or designated agents. While “crowdsourcing” is growing, we know little about common uses of the crowd and the challenges such initiatives present. Findings from a grounded theory study reveal four common uses by established organizations: productivity, product/service innovati...

The market orientation has been found to be a major driver of innovation performance in service contexts. This issue raises questions concerning the extent to which the relationship market orientation-innovation performance link holds in the high-tech industry. Relatively litter research has examined how market orientation contributes to innovation performance through service innovation. We rep...

Work in this article is supported by the China Recruitment Program of Global Young Experts, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No. NCET-130144, the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission under Grant No. 13SG06, the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No. 2012ZX030...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the problems of methodologicalresearch program in the history of political thought appearing valuationmethodologies. the claim is that the principles and methodology of the researchprogram evaluate the formation, expansion, and development of methodologies inthe area of knowledge. in contrast, this article argues that the research program isnot suffi...

R&D has always been considered a strategic asset of companies. Traditionally, companies that have their own R&D function are better prepared to compete in the globalized economy because they are able to produce the knowledge and technology required to advance products and services. SMEs also need to become highly innovative and competitive in order to be successful. Nevertheless, their ability ...