business community comprised of diverse types of business and processes to achieve business innovation. Studies a regional …

Purpose – Based on an Israeli innovation incubators program, aims to describe a procedure to define relevant categories … in order to reduce the complexity of representing the population of projects supported by an innovation program in a … meaningful way. Design/methodology/approach – Provides a concise description of the Israeli innovation incubators program and …

describe the transition from initial attempts at imitation of products through to the realisation that innovation would need to …/value – The case of Little Swan clearly demonstrates that innovation can be successfully integrated into a firm from external …

innovation processes within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – Based on a literature review …, different analysis perspectives on innovation processes are identified and discussed, and some firm needs and problems are …. Finally, by matching problems and techniques characterized by the same ontology, the BMTs most suitable to address SME needs …

(attribute and functionality) to be able to assess more than its mere presence in an innovation. Findings – The study shows … performance risk to differ between generations representing different innovation levels, and that this risk is moderated by … whether the consumer has usage experience of the original innovation. The results show that the risk consumers perceive is …

Purpose – The paper seeks to identify the drivers behind the displacement of the locus of innovation from a … from innovation (taking Rothwell's 1994 fifth‐generation innovation process as a point of departure) with knowledge … management theories. Findings – Immobility of tacit knowledge – a prerequisite for innovation – is a crucial factor behind the …

way to infer diffusion curve parameters (innovation coefficient and imitation coefficient) from network structure (e ….g. centralization). Design/methodology/approach – Based on the network and innovation literatures, we develop a model explicitly … relating the structural properties of the network to its innovation and imitation potential, and in turn to the observed …

configuration and innovation based in organisations without commercial imperative, delivering multi‐level care for and by people …, describing the management of innovation in multidisciplinary palliative care teams. The originality and value of this paper and …