This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

builders in the German Empire was determined by technological creativity and the availability of a comparatively cheap labour … creativity on export performance of thirty-two different machinery types. We find robust evidence that the development of export …

wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und betonen dabei Humankapital und Unternehmertum. Empirisch wurde gezeigt, dass sich die jordanische … Entwicklungspolitik stark mit diesen Handlungsempfehlungen ?berschneidet. Jordanien f?rdert Humankapital und Unternehmertum durch … Schw?chen Wachstum und Entwicklung m?glich sind, wenn man Wissen und Humankapital f?rdert. Dennoch weist Jordanien viele …

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 …

Advertising agencies trade on their creativity, which is supplied by teams of creative and account workers to create … styles). To study creativity and decision making, individuals involved in the creation of ads were tested for their innovator … judged by individual performance on a scale to measure cognitive style. Effie Awards were not associated with innovation in …