growth poles in a post-crisis global economy for the increase in rates and quality (stability and sustainability) of economic …

Although there are several studies about innovation and New Services Development (NSD), investigations about innovation …

The objective of this paper is to explain the management process of technological innovation within certified software … Model for Integration) process. Their problems are grouped into three areas: 1) strategic technology plan, 2) innovation and … 3) intellectual capital. We propose a model of innovation management to explain and evaluate the integration of those …

/avoidance and individualism/collectivism with the objective of explaining service innovation performance. Specifically, we try to … dimension on a product/service innovation. To this end, a survey was performed on a sample of tourism companies in Slovenia. The … offers a picture of how these dimensions should be developed in order to enhance innovation. It also presentsmanagerial …

Innovation is sometimes perceived as a linear and sequential process, and at other times as multidimensional. Based on … the common thread of ‘awareness’ that grounds many theories on innovation, we analyze the idea that a flexible … informational awareness accounts for both perceptions within the same overall innovation strategy. To show this, we propose using a …

This study focuses on the role of human factors in the innovation processes of firms in four member states of the … to obtain new information related to innovation and then to integrate it with their indigenous resources. The innovation … process thus consists of the absorptive process, through which outside information is employed to enhance innovation …

Although numerous studies explore innovation, most of them focus on technological innovations. It is currently … difficult to focus exclusively on products and processes when discussing innovation because new ideas can transform any part of … an organization’s value chain. Indeed, marketing innovation is essential for small and medium firms and its study is …

innovation. In order to shed light on this issue, this paper draws a distinction among three kinds of agglomeration economies and … empirically tests their respective impact on business innovation. The advantage that external knowledge generated through … as a mediator in the relationship between agglomeration and innovation. Using data from a survey conducted in 2013 by the …