This article compares the relationship between patent quality and patent value in discrete and cumulative innovation. Using factor analysis and a set of various commonly used patent quality indicators including claims, citations and family size, we build a quality factor jointly driving all indicators for 9255 patents. We then test the significance of this quality factor for predicting patent r...

In a globalized market environment, the competitiveness of manufacturing – which we understand as the ability to make and sell products while maintaining or increasing real income – is influenced by many factors, including the growth of productivity and the exchange rate. In this paper, we focus on the role and extent of innovation as a basis for maintaining manufacturing competitiveness. Innov...

Innovation is not only central to changes in traditional practice but arguably responsible for humanity's remarkable success at colonizing the earth and diversifying the products, technologies, and systems within it. Surprisingly little is known of how this integral component of behavioral flexibility develops and the factors that are responsible for individual differences therein. This review ...

The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we distinguish different types of kn...

While most academics generally agree that innovation plays the mediating role between market orientation and new product/service performance, relatively little research has examined how each component of market orientation contributes to new service performance through various types of service innovation. Based on a survey of 235 managers and taking a component-wise approach, this study finds t...

a r t i c l e i n f o Literature examines the relationship between innovation and performance and asserts a positive relationship between organizational learning and both performance and innovation. However, few empirical studies analyze these relationships together. This article explores those relationships using SEM with data from 451 Spanish firms. The findings show that both variables — org...

The aim of this study was to investigate the multiple relationships between anxiety sensitivity, social support, and perception of pain with the  life expectancy. Research was of correlational type. Population was consisted of all older adult in Isfahan (males and females) in the spring of 2016. 250 individuals were selected by convenience sampling method from different places. In order to meas...