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 …

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. …

, development and innovation activities, which although take various shapes, have something in common: they relate to problem …, proposes innovative tools to stimulate creativity and the problem solving ability. The tools suggested are based on analogy …

, innovation and achieving competitive advantage. By presenting how strategic human resource management can be implemented in an … organization, its high performance practices for human resources, it demonstrates that they support employee creativity through … free expression of ideas, involvement in decision making, resulting in the way to innovation and thus to obtain competitive …

but highly interconnected competencies: leadership and innovation. These are the two fundamental attributes that have … postulated that the stewardship of innovation and leadership determines the potential success and the rate of advancement of a … two characteristics of leadership and innovation and how they create value through integration and how we as a society …

) 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 …

, subsidy and innovation directives were most commonly used. …

A better understanding of Open Source Innovation in Physical Product (OSIP) might allow project managers to mitigate … risks associated with this innovation model and process, while developing the right strategies to maximise OSIP outputs. In … the software industry, firms have been highly successful using Open Source Innovation (OSI) strategies. However, OSI in …