The increase of strategic alliance and national or pan-national government collaborative programmes has highlighted the shifting management and policy focus from inducing inhouse R&D to promoting a joint partnership between firms and organisations in the increasingly complex and costly innovation process. Recent outputs from the dynamic capability school and innovation network theorists demonst...

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary knowledge between actors, which bel...

The strategies firms use to protect their intellectual property and knowledge can strongly influence their ability to capture the benefits of their innovative efforts. In attempting to appropriate their innovations, firms can chose from a range of mechanisms, including patents, trade secrets and lead times. Yet, little is known about how the use of different appropriability mechanisms may shape...

In 2014, 25% of all organizations polled across industry said the lack of infosec skills were a problem. In 2015, an Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey found that 28% reported a shortage of infosec skills (Trendmicro, 2015). With the growing threat of cybercrime and national security issues, growing the number of qualified cybersecurity professionals has become a national imperative. As the...

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The process of developing appropriate supply chain performance measurement instruments is difficult due to the complexity of supply chains. This paper presents an overview and evaluation of the performance measurement instruments used in supply chain models. As a result it advances a framework for developing an innovative supply chain performance measurement instrument which is generally applic...

INDIVIDUAL INCENTIVES AS DRIVERS OF INNOVATIVE PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE

Many of today’s problems are in search of new, innovative solutions. However, the development of new and innovative solutions has been elusive to many, resulting in considerable effort and dollars and no solution or a mediocre solution late to the marketplace or customer. This paper describes the results of research conducted to identify the critical success factors employed by several successf...