When Politics Drive Program Innovation

The Politics of Networked Innovation

Existing studies suggest that, because knowledge is becoming more widely distributed, innovation increasingly needs to occur ‘at the interstices’ of collaborating groups and organizations. Networked innovation processes are therefore emphasized, over more hierarchical or market-based forms, as having distinct advantages for the creation and integration of knowledge. Whilst the structural proper...

How to integrate ethics, politics and innovation

Understanding Innovation to Drive Sustainable Development

Innovation is among the key factors driving a country’s economic and social growth. But what are the factors that make a country innovative? How do they differ across different parts of the world and different stages of development? In this work done in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), we analyze the scores obtained through executive opinion surveys that constitute the WEF’s G...

Helping Clients Harness Knowledge to Drive Innovation

By assembling information in such a way that it becomes an intellectual asset, an organization can link structured and unstructured information to allow people to exploit the information/knowledge to achieve business objectives, improve processes, or solve problems. The Applied Knowledge Management Framework sets the stage for the kind of knowledge sharing and collaboration that leads to innova...

When Computers Became of Interest in Politics

Technical progress was for a long time uncontroversial in the Scan movements. World events like the American war in Vietnam and a new zeitgeist of the sixties and politically aware computer enthusiasts started seeing com themes were central in the Swedish discussion: the IBM hegemony, computers a the threat to democratic development by a changed balance of power. Swedish recollected from a pers...