This paper discusses the findings of the study that was aimed at establishing the effect of Competitive Intelligence, hereafter referred to as CI, on product and service innovations. A literature study revealed that CI and innovation are widely studied subjects, but the impact of CI on innovation was not well documented. CI has been widely acclaimed as a panacea to a lot of organizational probl...

1. Importance of Permanent Innovation Activity 2. A System Dynamics Perspective of R&D and Innovation Diffusion Models 2.1. Modeling R&D Processes 2.2. Innovation Diffusion Models 3. Integrating the Models of R&D, Innovation and Diffusion 3.1. Basic Behavior of the Holistic Model 3.2. Interactions between the Stages 3.3. Pricing in the Holistic Model 4. Implications for Management Glossary Bibl...

National innovation systems are influencing the path of innovation diffusion like e-business. Important enablers of e-business diffusion are IT mature and innovation friendly enterprises. An indicator of IT maturity is the diffusion of former innovations like electronic data interchange (EDI). The innovation adoption behavior can be described as the adopting date after occurrence of an innovati...

Despite the wideness of the literature on technological innovation, the diffusion of the supply chain collaborative technology innovation has not still received much attention. This paper is an attempt to answer the question that how the supply chain collaborative technological innovations emerge and diffuse. An agent-based model of collaborative supply chain technological innovation including ...

Many innovation studies focus on adoption behaviors at the individual and organizational level, while studies examine innovation adoption at the community and population level is relatively limited. These studies, focusing on the diffusion of an innovation across organizations, are important as they illustrate the dynamics of adoption behaviors in a broader context of socio-political factors. I...

This paper studies the innovation diffusion problemwith the affection of urbanization, proposing a dynamical innovation diffusion model with fuzzy coefficient, and uses the shifting rate of people from rural areas stepping into urban areas to show the process of urbanization. The numerical simulation shows the diffusion process for telephones in China with Genetic Algorithms and this model is e...

The inheritance of idled, derelict and frequently abandoned post-industrial structures and sites we found nowadays in our landscapes is, arguably the result of human current and former land uses. One way or another, the present situation, enabled by technological innovation and structural economic change, is somehow based in human (ab)use of limited resources. As mentioned by Krinke, (2001, p.1...

The diffusion of innovation (DOI) is critical for any organization and especially nowadays for higher education institutions (HEIs) in the light of vast pressure of emerging educational technologies as well as of the demand of economy and society. DOI takes into account the initial and the implementation phase. The conceptual model of DOI in higher education (HE), where e-learning is considered...

Size is one of the most controversial influencing factors in the diffusion literature. Some authors argue that large firms have several advantages over smaller firms in the adoption of an innovation (Brown 1981), while others argue that diffusion of innovation in small firms is quicker than in large firms because of the advantages associated with small size (Acs & Audretsh, 1988; Julien, 1993; ...