Most organizations today are required not only to operate effective business processes but they are required to accommodate for changing business conditions at an increasing rate. Today nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Systems (ES) for process integration and future generations of ES will increasingly be driven by business process models. Consequently business process modeling a...

the aim of this paper was to study knowledge intensive entrepreneurship role in innovative performance in agricultural technology management by entrepreneurial r&d; definition implementing as a casual-effect research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research specialists in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25)...

Leapfrogging innovation competition through the process of creative destruction encourages the innovation in product and process that lengthens and improves lives. Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction emphasizes dynamic innovation competition, as contrasted with the standard model of static price competition. The ‘big-is-better’ account of creative destruction claimed, in addition, that...

Models of innovation take a number of forms, each of which is helpful in highlighting particular aspects and enabling better understanding and practice. There are some models are designed for public organizations in the literature. However, they are not appropriate for Turkish public organizations because dynamics of the innovation process such as drivers, sources, and barriers show significant...

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation activity of Spanish manufacturing firms, reporting detailed CIS-type information continuously over the period 2004-2011. Standard GMMpanel estimates of the av...

We explore the causal links between service firms’ knowledge investments, their innovation outputs and business growth based on a bespoke survey of around 1100 UK service businesses. We combine the activity based approach of the innovation value chain with firms’ external links at each stage of the innovation process. This introduces the notion of ‘encoding’ relationships through which learning...

The innovation process in SMEs (smalland medium-sized enterprises) is complex and in comparison with large firms the causal relationships between promoting factors and innovation have yet not been sufficiently clarified. This chapter attempts to analyze the innovation process using Structural Equation Modeling, in particular focusing on the role of ICT. Seven hypotheses are demonstrated by two ...

Despite the growing literature on Open Source Software (OSS) innovation, knowledge about gender issues within the OSS innovation process is inadequate. This paper begins with some introduction on OSS innovation process, it then continues with the discussion of the current problems on gender and OSS innovations. The paper argues that appropriate feminist approach may be useful in augmenting the ...