<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/worldscientific#p/u/0/motNYu4eTFw">Video</a> ¡ª Prof. Eugene Fitzgerald talks about the process of innovation and introduces <i>Inside Real Innovation</i>. <i>Read more about the authors' interview/article with <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101201/mit-eugene-fitzgerald-understanding-innovation.html#">Inc.</a> and <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/01/31/why-the-government-needs-to-invest-in-innovation/">Forbes.</a></i> This breakthrough book gives a ground-floor view of the innovation process, showing how fundamental innovators...

Since the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management practices into their organizational culture. This combination of Japanese and Western management practices has been highly successful — Japanese firms are presently at...

Although regulatory authorities are putting more emphasis to the long-run effects of mergers and acquisitions due to their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a simple model with endogenous R&D investment, we show that...

In this note, we construct two theoretical models that analyze the relationship between inequality of access and rates of innovation as well as correlative data that show a negative correlation between income inequality and levels of innovativeness. Our two models suggest that unequal access to...

The relationship between exports and the propensity to innovate is an important issue for a developing economy. This article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it distinguishes the propensity to innovate among three...

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things...

Diffusion, or the widespread adoption of innovations, is a critical yet under-researched topic. There is a wide gap between development and successful adoption of an innovation. Therefore, a better understanding of why and how an innovation is adopted can help develop realistic management and...