Services play a key role in enhancing competitiveness of manufacturing and establishing global value chains. Realising … the importance of services, a number of countries such as China, Taiwan, Philippines and United Arab Emirates (UAE, Dubai …) are focusing on special economic zones (SEZs) for services sectors. Moreover, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is yet to …

User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the … field of lead users and user innovation, scientific literature provides only a few insights into how barriers are … research into the effects of user innovation barriers on user-generated products, and how user innovators' personal …

User innovation contributes significantly to societal advancement, particularly in developing novel products and … services, offering substantial financial potential, and fostering the common good. This is particularly evident in medical … contributions to the common good. This paper investigates end-users' perceptions of user innovation, a critical yet underexplored …

Prior research has shown that users are a valuable resource for identifying new product or service innovations. However … chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute to innovation. Further, user innovation success in the market is … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date …

their product to market. Our findings show that these innovation opportunities were mostly recognized during time … cases, the innovation had significant impacts on the quality of lives of the patients and, in case of caregivers, on both … ailment. This finding on innovation's social component complements current research on lead-users, as the solution of one …

improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …

In recent years a phenomenon called "frugal innovation" has increasingly gained traction in the scholarly discourse … what is it that makes India a forerunner for an innovation paradigm with increasing global relevance? In this paper, I … socio-cultural context of the country provides a fertile environment for the acceptance of frugal products and services on …

The phenomenon of frugal innovation, as characterized by "affordable excellence", is experiencing increasing acceptance … by business leaders, policy makers and scholars around the world. Frugal products, services and technologies strive to … development of frugal products and services. Not surprisingly, considerable research shows that discussions of frugal innovations …

indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory …