Connecting technology. Catalysing innovation.

Connecting absorptive capacity and open innovation

Open innovation and absorptive capacity are two popular concepts in contemporary innovation management literature. To our knowledge, they never have been connected to each other in a systematic way although it is straightforward that firms' absorptive capacity, as it has been defined by Cohen and Levinthal (1990), determines their ability to in-source externally developed technology or ideas. I...

Innovation Inducement Prizes: Connecting Research to Policy

Innovation inducement prizes have been used for centuries. In the U.S., a recent federal policy change—the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010—clarified and simplified a path by which all federal agencies can offer innovation inducement prizes, thus intensifying interest in how government agencies can most effectively design and apply such prizes. This paper aims to review and synthesi...

Catalysing progress.

Technology Innovation News Survey

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Technology Innovation News Survey

All preproposals are due by 2:00 PM ET on April 5, 2016. More information about the solicitations, including instructions and deadlines, is available on the ESTCP website under Funding Opportunities at https://serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/ESTCP-Solicitations. Additionally, ESTCP Director Dr. Anne Andrews and Deputy Director Dr. Andrea Leeson will conduct a webinar, "ESTCP Funding Oppor...