Can Firms Simultaneously Pursue Technology Innovation and Design Innovation?

Firms, crowds, and innovation

The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of "firms, crowds, and innovation" and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices-for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production-relate to theories of the firm, with particu...

Strategic Leadership and Innovation in High Technology Firms

Innovation, Firms and Wage Inequality∗

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the UK that we augment with information on R&D expenditures, to analyze the relationship between innovativeness and average wage income across firms. We first show that more R&D intensive firms pay higher wages on average. Our second finding is that the premium to working in more R&D intensive firms seems to be higher for low-skilled workers t...

The impact of organizational innovation through innovation capabilities in ‎process and product on the performance of manufacturing firms

Abstract Innovation is considered as a critical factor for organizations to create value and ‎sustainable competitive advantage in today's complex and changing environment. ‎Organizations with more innovation, in response to the changing environments and ‎creating development of new capabilities that allows them to achieve better ‎performance will be more successful. The aim of curr...

Finance , Innovation & Growth ( FINNOV ) Innovation in Venture - Capital Backed Clean - Technology Firms in the UK