Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

The Innovation Mill (IM) is an initiative which has been established in collaboration mainly among Nokia Corporation, Technopolis, and Tekes. Nokia Corporation provides its non-core ideas to other existing and start-ups companies through IM to turn these ideas into valuable products and services. Nokia idea database consists of enormous number of ideas that are non-core to it. Companies earn gr...

The paper highlights the importance of design in product innovation, using portable computers as an empirical case study. This is an attempt to redress the balance in the innovation and product technology literature, which has overwhelmingly focused on hardware technologies (technical characteristics) of products. Principal components analysis is used to identify clusters of design characterist...

The main aim of this paper is to establish the hidden incidences that can improve specific aspects beekeeper Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) innovation capabilities in Boyacá-Colombia. methodology focused on use expertons model, adequacy coefficient forgotten effects theory. A questionnaire 58 items about different management areas distributed 14 SMEs area findings suggest there are two acti...

The literature has discussed the introduction of incentive structures as a means achieving balance between organizational exploration and exploitation. This study posits that this is not reasonable approach to such balance. I used micro-economic model where explorative exploitative activities are modeled in accordance with definitions March (1991). shows personal cost employee performing was cr...