This paper reviews existing innovation metrics at the company-level and country-level, and proposes a system of … signposts of innovation to help executives with a guiding framework and data resources for evaluating and planning innovation … of innovation activities that today's businesses undertake. We also incorporate input from The Conference Board members …

This paper reviews the main contributions of organisational innovation in the literature towards bringing a sustainable … organisation and development. The review basically illustrates four main interrelated concepts: organisational innovation … innovation and organisational sustainability involves some important aspects concerning organisational innovation and its diverse …

A better understanding of the relational antecedents of innovation in family firms is central to explaining their long … does not always foster innovation directly as existing theory suggests, but through their organizational commitment. These … have a crucial intermediate role in the relationship between internal social capital and innovation in family firms. …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …

opportunities, initiating innovation and strategic thinking. These antecedents influence academic librarians' innovative behaviour …

conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …

This paper describes a number of innovation forms that are of special relevance to firms in the service industry. Not … arrangements in services. Based on the service management literature a scheme with three forms of organizational innovation and one … form of technological innovation is developed. This scheme is illustrated and elaborated in ten case studies of firms in …

strategies are comparatively optimal for corresponding points along an innovation lifecycle …