Manufacturing innovations are technologies and activities that improve and change the level of capacity, performance and quality in manufacturing permanently or over time. This policy brief explores the role of manufacturing innovations in different Nordic contexts, their link with production relocation decisions and performance implications. Manufacturing innovations are analyzed in terms of f...

A tecnologia é uma das direções importantes no desenvolvimento da sociedade do futuro, pois afeta o sistema de ensino superior como um todo, e está inserida conceito ‘S.M.A.R.T’, que se baseia em organizações educacionais tipo Smart University. O objetivo estudo apresentado artigo foi analisar uso inovações tecnológicas diversas áreas atuação Universidade Inteligente, seu impacto setor educacio...

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We propose a new typology of organizational innovation based on the integration of theories of organizational learning and theories of knowledge. The three dimensions that we use to construct our typology of innovations are: tacit–explicit, systemic–autonomous and simple–complex. We, then, analyze the impact of these different types of innovations on the method of sourcing, cost of implementati...

L. Blacha Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland. J. Brzóska Silesian University of Technology, Zabrze, Poland. Implementation of innovations is the main factor of development of companies’ competitiveness and effectiveness. Innovations result in creation of a value for both the client and the company. The article presents a method of evaluating the innovations implemented in indus...

What happens when an IT innovation is also a disruptive innovation? This study explores this question by examining sample cases of advances in IT that have also been categorized as disruptive innovations. The study leads to a conceptual thesis that such occurrences result in a contrasting duality dimension of wicked challenges and empowerment opportunities for different actors. We advance a mod...

This paper discusses the results for Italy of a CDM model (Crepon et al., 1998) further extended with the objective of evaluating drivers and productivity effects of environmental innovations. The particular nature of environmental innovations, especially as regards the need of government intervention to create market opportunities, is likely to affect the way through which they are pursued (in...

Health care is rich in evidence-based innovations, yet even when such innovations are implemented successfully in one location, they often disseminate slowly-if at all. Diffusion of innovations is a major challenge in all industries including health care. This article examines the theory and research on the dissemination of innovations and suggests applications of that theory to health care. It...