this study aimed at identifying and analyzing issues and challenges on the agricultural research and technology development under the national innovation framework. the survey consisted of two groups: agricultural researchers of agriculture-research and education organization and all faculty members of public agricultural faculties of ministry of scientific, research and technology. using cochr...

Today’s world economy situation forces enterprise organizations toward more soft and flexible organization, management, and production processes. They need to explore the most suitable Knowledge Management (KM) tool not only to identify gaps and overlaps but also to maintain and support innovation cross organizations. In this study, a multiple-experts-multiple-criteria decision making model is ...

The field of knowledge management (KM) has emerged strongly as the next source of competitive advantage. However, as to how knowledge management (KM) can be harnessed for the pursuit of innovation has yet to be firmly established. This article discusses the significance of knowledge by describing the transition from ‘information revolution’ to ‘knowledge revolution’ – which enables various form...

this paper presents a descriptive study which examines the co-alignment between total quality management (tqm) and technology/research and development (r&d;) management in predicting organizational performance in terms of quality and innovation. this study improves our understanding of the relationship between tqm and innovation based on the following two major issues. first, this study contrib...

The authors argue that the nature and importance of innovative change in automotive industry began to alter and grew in importance. According the authors this article is important the structure of innovation management. This structure consists of 3 elements and relationships between them Methodology, Management innovation activities and Management innovation behavior. The authors shows on ten s...

In this paper, the author introduces the idea of service oriented innovation management into the scientific discussion and gives an outlook on possible application. In this paper, the SOA-principles are adopted and applied in the field of innovation management with several stakeholders involved in the innovation process. Furthermore, a use case is presented in form of a management concept for a...

In this paper, the author introduces the idea of service oriented innovation management into the scientific discussion and gives an outlook on possible application. In this paper, the SOA-principles are adopted and applied in the field of innovation management with several stakeholders involved in the innovation process. Furthermore, a use case is presented in form of a management concept for a...

Increased competition, changes, and uncertainty have forced organizations to embrace innovation as an important function. Paying attention to the innovation is necessary to reply to Rapid technological changes rate. So many researches have been done about innovation, but there are a few studies about innovation in refineries. Due to this fact, the present study aimed to identify human and manag...

This paper presents the results of a mail survey used to investigate the relationship between continuous improvement/innovation management practices and SME performance in Australia. Multi-item scales were developed and used to measure key components of continuous improvement and innovation management. Nine dimensions of SME performance were measured, for example, speed to market, success rate ...