In this article, E-business new product development innovation processes were studied at four enterprises across Europe and Asia. E-entrepreneurship innovation was improved using a quality of idea priority model. The conventional quality function deployment phase 1 matrix was revised to increase the voice of customers and engineer quality of idea decision-making. The proposed model was simulate...

Purpose – Today, a second generation of computer-based innovation tools employs knowledge systems technology to automate and support key intellectual activities required for effective process design. But a central question remains as to the effectiveness of innovation through such knowledge systems. The research described in this paper is focused on testing the effectiveness of knowledge-based ...

This study presents an exploratory approach to identify the main factors of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) adoption and diffusion within commercial organisations. Utilising an inductive investigative approach via the use of Grounded Theory methodology, relevant adoption factors were identified and their resulting influence during various stages of the innovation diffusion process were prop...

This study presents an exploratory approach to identify the main factors of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) adoption and diffusion within commercial organisations. Utilising an inductive investigative approach via the use of Grounded Theory methodology, relevant adoption factors were identified and their resulting influence during various stages of the innovation diffusion process were prop...

The article identifies the explosion of clinical data that are available and how difficult it is for clinicians to find answers to clinical questions. Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are increasingly used to assist clinicians in this process; however, resistance to the implementation of technology-assisted care is not uncommon. The article reviews the diffusion of innovation research and p...

OBJECTIVES Encouraging reassessment of intravenous antibiotic therapy at days 3-4 is an important step in the management of patients and may be done by delivering a questionnaire or through systematic infectious disease physician (IDP) advice to prescribers. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this before-and-after study, prescriptions of 13 selected intravenous antibiotics from surgical or medical wards...

M. Ding et al. (eds.), Innovation and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry, International Series in Quantitative Marketing 20, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7801-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Continuous innovation is one of the pharmaceutical industry’s most defi ning characteristics. New medications can be crucial for maintaining the quality of human life, and may ...

Institutional theories have been adopted to explain and predict the process of Information Systems (IS) innovation in organisations. However, most institutional-centred frameworks overlook the significance of external economic efficiency and internal organisational capability when organisations consider strategic responses to institutional conformity pressure. Focusing on the diffusion of IS se...

The paper examines the effects of the degree of competition on the firms’ decision to innovate in differentiated markets. We find that a low (high) degree of product differentiation (competition) weakly supports the introduction of new products. Firms’ weakly favour a process innovation if the degree of product differentiation (competition) is high (low). In addition, assumptions on the strateg...

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are typically low in nonpolar/hydrophobic but relatively high in polar, charged, and aromatic amino acid compositions. Some IDPs undergo liquid-liquid phase separation in the aqueous milieu of the living cell. The resulting phase with enhanced IDP concentration can function as a major component of membraneless organelles that, by creating their own IDP-r...