Innovation is a distributed process that involves the collective efforts and the interaction of heterogeneous organisations. Each of those actors is specialised in specific activities, technologies and knowledge and innovation is the result of the combination and integration of their activities. Coordination is a key determinant for the viability of distributed innovation in that it stimulates ...

For over 2,500 years, innovation was a contested idea. It became de-contested in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two types of argument contributed to this rehabilitation: an economic one (utility) and a cultural one (creativity). Over time, the former became dominant in theories, public policy and discourses. Yet many writers on innovation continue to define innovation as creativity. Wh...

this paper is a study in different kinds of innovations in the product-design field and the way of categorization of them and station point of industrial design in this process. the research process comprised the following five steps: 1. defining the research problem and establishing its methodology; 2.selecting and describing samples; 3. analyzing data and shaping hypotheses; 4. testing the ca...

the present study aimed identifies factors affecting the development and use of electronic services in the tourism industry. population of the study of those tourists who have traveled in april 2013 in the city of ardabil. the population sample of 384 randomly selected. to gather data, researchers used a combination of questionnaires and questionnaire containing 51 questions was designed. the v...

New developments in the mobile telecom industry, such as growing transmission bandwidth and sector-crossing business alliances, change the way in which mobile telco’s are innovating. Traditional innovation models, such as the single-company linear model (‘pipeline model’), do no longer describe how innovation occurs today. An interesting alternative is the boundary-crossing Cyclic Innovation Mo...

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster context. These clusters are usually conceived as local agglomerations. In this paper it will be argued that they are an important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation processes require the expansion of ...