Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help explain the paradox between the high potential of telehealth innovations and their slow diffusion by investigating the challenges involved in a successful case. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a longitudinal study of a telestroke program from 2003-2007 seen from the point-of-view of the inventors. The program was initially used ...

The Swedish 18th-century naturalist Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus is habitually credited with laying the foundations of modern taxonomy through the invention of binominal nomenclature. However, another innovation of Linnaeus' has largely gone unnoticed. He seems to have been one of the first botanists to leave his herbarium unbound, keeping the sheets of dried plants separate and stacking them in a p...

This report is both a summary and a critique of the article Invention and Inventivity Is a Random, Poisson Process: A Potential Guide to Analysis of General Creativity by John C. Huber from the Institute of Invention and Innovation. The article studies human creativity through measuring the number of patents issued to each individual inventor throughout his/her inventive career. By taking sampl...

Animal innovations range from the discovery of novel food types to the invention of completely novel behaviours. Innovations can give access to new opportunities, and thus enable innovating agents to invade and create novel niches. This in turn can pave the way for morphological adaptation and adaptive radiation. The mechanisms that make innovations possible are probably as diverse as the innov...