Social innovation enriches cities and drives their development by enabling improvements to products, services …, processes, and methods. In this article, we define the concept of social innovation and explain which factors are essential to … the social innovation process. We also examine the stages of this process. To do so, we present findings from a case study …

innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an … innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that evolves and within which activity takes place through time. The … innovation bloc consists of five pools of economic skills from which people are drawn or recruited to form part of a …

This research provides knowledge and builds theory related to how and why consumers engage in unsolicited innovation … from the organization(s) linked to the source material of their innovation, and of their interpretation of the overall … context in which they engage in innovation. This paper reveals that there are two main types of ‘creative consumers' – those …

-centricity. Design/Methodology/Approach: For carrying out the research study, the concept of customer-centric innovation and the current … customers and building stronger business-customer relationships.Social Implications: There are several ways in which innovation … interaction. Originality/Value: No study has investigated before the customer-centric innovation in Oman, and this study will help …

about post-innovation outcomes leads investors to demand more information. However, such innovations also likely entail … greater proprietary cost concerns, which deter disclosure. This paper uses patent grants to examine the effect of innovation … concerns having a moderating impact. Overall, our findings suggest that innovation creates demand for more voluntary disclosure …

We present the theory of the collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), an evolving system of innovation within which …

to the mid-2000s when Chinese leaders began to make a major policy push toward the development of independent innovation …