design led approach to innovation to assist medical device companies develop new services and experiences and reshape their … emerging economies. The contribution of this work in advancing research into design innovation and future research directions …

Plenary 1: Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income …

crucial. Brazil, China, India and Russia, experienced constant high economic growth rates and begun to evolve to solid …

Organizational innovation has been of central interest in recent years because of its importance for organizational … survival and competitive advantage. Researchers in the field have divided the innovation process into stages in an attempt to … understand the innovation process and the factors that affect it. However, empirical studies that examine the relationship …

A survey-based empirical examination was made on the impact of strategic planning and innovation on the organisational … positive associations between each of strategic planning and innovation with organisational performance. Theoretical and … planning and emphasising innovation. …

As one of the largest emerging markets, China's enormous population and economic boom have recently attracted many …, and opened various industries to foreign investors. With the admission of China to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in … opportunities. Successful MNCs have regarded investing in China as a long-term strategic approach in which they have tried to reach …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …

account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation …. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation and are …

property invention plays. Then we examine the role of Internetand communications technologies and comment on innovation in this …