skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …

- illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has enabled the firm to improve product design. Two conditions favor the results … firms can obtain from consumer’s knowledge. First, is firm’s ability to exploit new opportunities of information and … to initiate a mode of organization by which the consumers are guided and motivated to reveal merely relevant knowledge. …

partners’ relational research capacity, i.e. their ability to evaluate, integrate, process and exploit knowledge flows …

performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

innovation in the process of value creation from ES investments. Empirical data on the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning … (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Knowledge Management System (KMS), and … Document Management System (DMS) is used to investigate the effects on product and process innovation, revenue, productivity …

’s likelihood of introducing an innovation. The analysis draws on data from a recent innovation survey. This data is merged with a … non-significant effects of the different employee characteristics on the likelihood of introducing an innovation. …

organisation and innovation affect Japanese and US MNEs' global R&D networks and transnational learning, based on case studies of … their R&D laboratories in the U.K. In particular, it focuses on how these MNEs tap into foreign academic knowledge base and … innovation networks because the liberal institutional environment within which US MNEs have developed enables them to extend …

This study investigates how the selection environment and modularity affect innovation in private infrastructure … innovations. An innovation succeeds contingent upon the capability of the stakeholder groups to develop collectively a plan to … finance and implement the innovation, which reconciles subjective individual assessments. Innovations can be particularly hard …