All enterprises need creativity and innovation to maintain and sustain long term profitability. This paper advocates …

This paper discusses the findings of a study of innovation activities by maritime firms located in Quebec's coastal … firms in terms of their innovation activities and co-operation behavior, and examine the influence of business environment … on innovation. The findings reveal that no single characteristic of Quebec's coastal maritime firms defines the way that …

repeated innovations as technologies move through different innovation patterns — transformation (first-of-a-kind), transition … of cooperative alliances in the innovation, knowledge management and decision-making associated with the development of … the diesel injection technology. As the technology has become ever more complex, the Bosch innovation activities have …

The relationship between competition and innovation has drawn great attention from economists and strategic management … Baldwin and Scott (1987) and Tang (2006) that the relationship between competition and innovation is dependent on the … competition context and specific type of innovation activities. In this study, we investigate the relationship between foreign …

Studies on innovation and creativity have been quite rare, thus far in the sport management literature. In this study …

innovation determinants. We suggest that the relationship between downsizing and innovation determinants is contingent upon the … and shed new light on the relationship between downsizing and innovation enhancers, and barriers to innovation. …

of risk in the adoption of their innovation, while also enhancing the customer's understanding of the innovation. However … development and management of strategic networks may be a useful enhancement to the process of innovation in small firms. …

This paper discusses notions of theory in relation to evolutionary understandings of innovation. It starts by …’s going on” in the economic sphere when it comes to innovation. It continues to argue and show that appreciative evolutionary … understandings of innovation are connected to the Darwinian processes of variation, selection and retention in the theoretical “high …

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce the contributions in this special issue on “Unemployment, innovation and R … innovation and R&D on employment/unemployment and unemployment persistence. …