Solution Mapping Tools: Identifying a Bottom-Up Approach to Social Innovation

Bottom-up, Decentralized Approach to Innovation Strategy

New conditions contributes the emergence of new concepts of innovation strategies in the enterprise. The study conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit shows a new approach to innovation. Future innovations will be enforced and invented by users (clients)and they will be a key element of competitive advantage. The company will therefore be forced to turn their customers to its information s...

Structural & Social Integration : Help or Hindrance to Bottom - up Innovation ?

A bottom up approach to category mapping and meaning change

In this article, we use an automated bottom-up approach to identify semantic categories in an entire corpus. We conduct an experiment using a word vector model to represent the meaning of words. The word vectors are then clustered, giving a bottom-up representation of semantic categories. Our main finding is that the likelihood of changes in a word’s meaning correlates with its position within ...

Leisure e-Service Innovation: A Bottom-up Collaborative Approach

This paper explores the future opportunities for combine ambient e-service with leisure industry. Contrast to traditional leisure service delivery method, our proposed service innovation focus on the bottom-up collaborative solutions which enable leisure activity participants to cooperate with nearby users and encourage information sharing and experience co-creation. We introduce a collaborativ...

Activating the Innovation Potential of SME: The Bottom-Up-Approach

In this paper we propose an innovation model for the collaboration between SME and public research institutions in order to enhance knowledge transfer and to foster the creation of a regional innovation network. A third aspect is to enhance a more intense cooperation in the public research sector between institutions and departments. In this paper we discuss the term innovation and describe the...