Focusing on North America, Innovation Systems in a Global Context examines the nature of existing systems of innovation …Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Innovation Systems in a Global Context -- PART ONE …: CONCEPTUALIZING INNOVATION SYSTEMS -- 1 Competitiveness, Sustainability, and the North American Regional System of Innovation -- 2 …

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production ….) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation …

innovation with the left-brain affinity for logic and process. The result is a fresh, dynamic approach that addresses customers …

innovativeness to improve and survive. The aim of this paper is to see how quality practices can be used to instill innovation within … innovation. This approach was followed up with ten in‐depth case studies to determine deep rich data. The case study data …, presented in this paper, show that quality is an essential foundation for progressing to large scale innovation and also …

This conceptual paper examines the role of knowledge and learning in the quality and innovation process, and proposes a … holistic, cross‐disciplinary model of the learning approach to quality and innovation. It stresses the importance of creativity … in the learning process and postulates a higher platform of quality and innovation: creative quality and value innovation …

innovation and activity‐based costing (ABC) as an administrative innovation. The findings are expected to provide some guidelines … study suggests a significant positive relationship between business size and both technological innovation and the … implementation of ABC. Originality/value – Knowledge of the impact of size on diffusion of innovation has been complicated by the …