Innovation (Our Raison d'être)

Does disruptive innovation enhance our paradigm shifts?

The raison d'être of chemical ecology.

Chemical ecology is a mechanistic approach to understanding the causes and consequences of species interactions, distribution, abundance, and diversity. The promise of chemical ecology stems from its potential to provide causal mechanisms that further our understanding of ecological interactions and allow us to more effectively manipulate managed systems. Founded on the notion that all organism...

The Culture of innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation?

Systems engineering work is requiring increasing collaboration among various enterperprises, nations, and individuals to innovate to meet the comlex needs of large numbers of stakeholders. This indicates a need to better understand the cultural differences in innovation styles that can enable or hinder collaboration. This paper argues that applying the Hofstede Cross-Cultural Dimensions to ente...

Defining Our Terms – What Is ‘ Innovation ’ and ‘ Best Practice ’ ?

The use of financial incentives, carefully designed targets, improved systems for spreading knowledge and information, more coherent approaches for gathering and communicating benefits evidence, and intelligent use of the commissioning process can all be used to tackle these challenges. Competition between healthcare providers could become more influential in stimulating innovation, but this sh...

Reverse innovation from the least of our neighbors.