This paper contrasts the attitudes of firms towards innovation from the construction sector with those in services and manufacturing, using data from the UK innovation survey. We examine the liabilities that construction firms face in their innovative activities in comparison to other sectors,...

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation...

Currently, all major IT and telecom firms are busy trying to stimulate non-contractual complementary developments around their own core competences and offerings. But little has been done to explain the logic, strengths, and weaknesses of non-contractual innovation. The literature on...

Most of the telecommunications service providers, TSPs, are running their businesses based on few profitable services from the eighties, despite the fact that new network technologies have already been disposed of the organization infrastructures to provide new convergent services. The...

Games of innovation are sets of rules that structure meso-level innovation systems composed of organisational actors that compete and collaborate to create value. All game rules are coherent, with one dominant value-creation logic, and refer to all the aspects of managing innovation, from...

The paper analyzes the role of the manufacturing industry as an economic development vector from the perspective of the integration of Romania into the European Union, on the basis of a structural breakdown following specific criteria that take into account the use of resources, the...

The analysis on the technological and organizational change in the European industry, and particularlly the Portuguese one, has been studied at CESO I&D since its foundation on 1988. Few time after that, started a development project that started from a previous research project on the same...