A great deal of ‘innovation failure’ can be attributed to ineffective implementation, rather than failure of the innovation itself. External agencies such as technology diffusion agencies (TDAs) have been created to assist organisations to implement innovation successfully, but there has...

Most research examining innovation measures retrospective innovation, or to what extent a company has adopted innovations during previous years. This longitudinal study was undertaken with small firms to examine two factors that allow organisations to have control and that therefore lead them to...