In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through … innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper …. By creating a favourable environment for innovation, countries and regions can facilitate their industries and companies …

Innovation can be defined broadly to include the development and uptake of new technology, the introduction of new … work organisation or management structures and approaches. Innovation, or the commercial application of new knowledge, is … field of innovation in modern economies is associated with the rapid development and application of information and …

innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge … process organizations (KPOs) serves to reduce innovation process obstacles. Grounded in diffusion theory and strategic … and scope, knowledge sharing, and learning. This paper claims that (a) accumulated core competencies of multinational …

As a learning theory, the continuous improvement (CI) discourse has benefited countless manufacturing enterprises to … such as innovation techniques. Such methodologies have been promoted in the literature as potential manifestos that can … separated from organisational learning methodologies, it follows that CI methods should underpin holistic learning. This paper …

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

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 …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study is concerned with change in the factors that drive and support innovation, focusing on the … framework that recognises both the strongly systemic nature of innovation and the inexorable processes of transformation in an … increasingly international competitive context. It brings together sectoral innovation system approaches and frameworks for …

been an associated increase in the role of knowledge and the importance of product and process innovation. A set of … reference to available data and international research evidence on employment generation, conditions of work and innovation in …

design led approach to innovation to assist medical device companies develop new services and experiences and reshape their … emerging economies. The contribution of this work in advancing research into design innovation and future research directions …

While a number of factors have been highlighted in the innovation adoption literature, little is known about whether … different factors are related to innovation adoption in differently-sized firms. We used preliminary case studies of small … stakeholder pressure and non-financial readiness were related to innovation adoption in SMEs; but that for large firms, adoption …