Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate … venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been …

by the creativity model of Baille. Results are discussed which show significant innovation development when using TRIZ … Michelin is discussed. The influence of prior training with systematic problem solving method TRIZ, on the innovation team, is … assessed using a questionnaire. The questionnaire is based on a company innovation audit model proposed by Mann and influenced …

(2003) identifies innovation as different from creativity in that innovation aims to transform and implement rather than … uncertainty, such as the recent global financial crisis, these coping methods often result in innovation in industry. Richards …, cut and fit (Finn, 2008), the concept of innovation is an important one. This paper explores the role of uncertainty as a …

ideas, and who can duck and cope with unpredictability. This chapter examines the concepts of proactivity and innovation. It …

individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual …

creativity and innovation are revealed. …

invigorate innovation based growth. We see the creative economy as suffused with all industry rather than as a sector in its own … starting point is that modern economies depend on innovation, and we see the core of innovation as new knowledge of some kind …. We commence with some observations about innovation. …

) increases on the strategic emphasis placed on innovation, both product and process, positively impact the prominence managers … place on IT; (2) the impact of innovation (both product and process) on performance (both profitability and growth) is …

There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement … procurement strategies. The second essay investigates information technology hardware innovation. I examine R and D offshoring of … software innovation. I investigate open source software and its impact on the design of proprietary software in terms of number …