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...

In today's competitive world corporate survival requires special attention to innovation. Given the key role of intellectual capital in corporate innovation capability, this article is written with the aim of provide a model to promote organizational innovation through human capital management and knowledge sharing. The population in this study is managers, directors and experts from 13 industr...

In today's competitive world corporate survival requires special attention to innovation. Given the key role of intellectual capital in corporate innovation capability, this article is written with the aim of provide a model to promote organizational innovation through human capital management and knowledge sharing. The population in this study is managers, directors and experts from 13 industr...

this paper seeks to trace some of the roots and problems of the rational view of innovation. concentrating primarily upon product innovation, we point out that the eighteenth century notion of social progress in the light of reason has gradually given an enormous impetus to a rational view of product innovation in modern organizations. we summarize several decades of research into management of...

This paper seeks to trace some of the roots and problems of the rational view of innovation. Concentrating primarily upon product innovation, we point out that the eighteenth century notion of social progress in the light of reason has gradually given an enormous impetus to a rational view of product innovation in modern organizations. We summarize several decades of research into management of...

Abstract Innovation is considered as a critical factor for organizations to create value and ‎sustainable competitive advantage in today's complex and changing environment. ‎Organizations with more innovation, in response to the changing environments and ‎creating development of new capabilities that allows them to achieve better ‎performance will be more successful. The aim of curr...

Industry and academia alike are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that innovation does not take place in isolated cells or functions within the firm. During the last the years the term open innovation has emphasized the importance of internal and external collaboration in order to increase the competitiveness of companies. Although the idea of involving internal and external actors in the...

Lead user driven innovation and open innovation paradigms seek to involve consumers and common people to innovative product development projects. In order to help developers choose ideas that meet the end users’ needs, we undertook a massive collaborative research effort and collected 40,000 ideas from 2,150 common people about future mobile services that they would like to use. We inspired eac...

product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. one can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...

this paper is a study in different kinds of innovations in the product-design field and the way of categorization of them and station point of industrial design in this process. the research process comprised the following five steps: 1. defining the research problem and establishing its methodology; 2.selecting and describing samples; 3. analyzing data and shaping hypotheses; 4. testing the ca...