The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

Despite mounting evidence on the potential benefits of inbound open innovation, little is known about how firms purposefully manage inflows of knowledge. We investigate the use of two knowledge governance procedures—project management and knowledge matching—in collaborative inbound open innovation. Our findings suggest that, in addition to “knowledge-precursors,” which the literature on open in...

Innovation performance is an important goal for enterprises, and enterprises external network is an important way to improve enterprise innovation performance. While most of the related researches merely emphasize the role of their network location and neglect the heterogeneity themselves, thus leading to contradictory conclusions. In this paper, absorptive capacity is used as the intermediate ...

Despite mounting evidence on the potential benefits of inbound open innovation, little is known about how firms purposefully manage inflows of knowledge. We investigate the use of two knowledge governance procedures—project management and knowledge matching—in collaborative inbound open innovation. Our findings suggest that, in addition to “knowledge-precursors,” which the literature on open in...

Imitation and innovation work in tandem to support cultural learning in children and facilitate our capacity for cumulative culture. Here we propose an integrated theoretical account of how the unique demands of acquiring instrumental skills and cultural conventions provide insight into when children imitate, when they innovate, and to what degree. For instrumental learning, with an increase in...

pierre-gerlier forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. in this commentary, i develop an additional argument in support of forest et al view. forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. translation of externally generated i...

To find out the psychological root cause of Secure System Development (SSD) innovation digestion behavior, this article establishes the double digestion model of SSD innovation based on psychological factors. The theoretical bases include the acceptance model, motivation theory and theories related to innovation digestion. Then, we use SPSS 19.0 and AMOS 17.0 to verify the model. The results in...

Purpose – Innovation within clusters is a crucial aspect in regional development. In the last decades, in the literature the role of absorptive capacity, environment, trust and cooperation in leveraging both explorative and exploitive innovation has been highlighted. In this paper we assess the contributions of these factors on the basis of a comparative analysis between about 250 firms belongi...

In this paper, absorptive capacity e ects of human capital on innovation are introduced into the endogenous growth model. In order to empirically test their relevance, a spatial endogenous sample splitting estimator is proposed. With the help of the proposed model and estimation strategy, we are able to empirically demonstrate the relevance of absorptive capacity e ects on innovation controllin...