Technology innovation is the key to enhancing the quality of life for everyone in the continuum of life from newborns to senior citizens. Management innovation has been the fuel that has been sustaining the technology innovation engine. Thus, together, management innovation and technology innovation have the potential to rapidly transform information processing, especially in healthcare, by suc...

Knowledge management can be enhanced by creating conditions that facilitate knowledge creation, thus the concepts of teamworking, thinking styles and innovation are central to the effective utilization of knowledge. This paper presents the results of a survey of 156 civil servants at Putrajaya, investigating relationships between teamworking and thinking styles with technology diffusion and inn...

The competition among commercial banks is increasingly drastic, and the marketing innovation has been one of important strategic choices to make banks win in the market. At the same time, with gradual deepening of bank informationization, the information technology is gradually infiltrating into various innovation activities of the bank and becoming into the new headspring to realize innovation...

Innovation and new product development pose a number of challenges for a company, demanding critical thinking and decision making towards a conscious and purposeful search for innovation opportunities. This paper identifies the potential sources of innovation in the European Assistive Technology industry and proposes a conceptual model for incremental innovation, on the basis of the Rehabilitat...

Conflict is the key factor to affect investment and benefits of the industry technologies and innovation strategic alliance. This paper constructs an investment decision model of industry technology innovation strategic alliance by discussing the influence of the conflict on the alliance generic technology investment and the impact of member benefits. The results suggest that maximize revenue o...

This presentation will discuss the emerging discipline of IT Innovation, a discipline where unique value can be created at the intersection of Information Technology and Innovation. The presentation also shares the structure of an emerging Innovation Capability Maturity Framework and Model while discussing how computing trends such as multicore technology and virtualization will reignite Moore’...

The stabilisation of innovative technology depends on reconciling technological requirements and user behaviour. This can be achieved by adjusting the technology to the users, by configuring the user, or by a combination thereof. This paper evaluates different strategies in a case of service innovation: the substitution of conductors with self-service machines in the Amsterdam tramways around 1...

On the markets for technology (MfT) we currently observe a sizable growth, observe that firms still face immanent transaction obstacles and the emergence of technology market intermediaries (TMI). Why TMIs emerge and how they attempt to facilitate transactions however is not yet sufficiently understood. For these two questions we propose theoretical explanations within this paper building prima...

Scientific production of Iran’s scientists holds the needed potential and wealth to be the world’s reference in science and knowledge. Based on this and by following guidelines of the supreme leader of the Islamic revolution, preservation, persistence, and reinforcement of the scientific production debate has unavoidable urgency and priority in academic and scientific circles and gatherings. We...

With this article, we would like to initiate a discussion about a methodological problem that is central to many empirical science studies but has received far too little attention, namely scientifically informed interviewing. To what extent do we have to understand scientists’ work scientifically in order to explain their behaviour sociologically? As far as it is existent at all, the methodolo...