Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …

, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …

in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains … in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center … differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …

how customers learn about an innovation. This research focuses on identifying unresolved issues about these customer and … product innovation dynamics. A conceptual framework and series of propositions are presented that relate both changing … to a firm’s product innovation process. Successful innovation strategies and future research challenges are discussed …

illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process. Management of virtual R …

in manufacturing. This paper attempts to trace the rise of Asian firms and their innovation capabilities while examining … manufacturing firms is the deficiency of internal and external finances except firms of Japan and South Korea. The innovation … environmental constraints are more visible across Asian firms where the national innovation system is at nascent phase. The finding …