1Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik, University of Passau, Innstr. 43, 94032 Passau, Germany 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK 3HP-European Innovation Centre, HP IIC (Italy Innovation Centre), Italy 4School of Information Technology, International University in Germany, Bruchsal, Germany 5VTT Technical Res...

100-150 ord) Responding to the climate change challenge requires a massive development and diffusion of carbon neutral technologies and, thus, emergence and growth of new socio-technical systems. This paper contributes to an improved understanding of the formative phase of new technological innovation systems (TIS) by outlining a framework for analysing TIS dynamics in terms of structural growt...

F need to balance efficiency gains obtained through exploiting existing knowledge assets with long-term competitive viability achieved through exploring new knowledge resources. Because the use of knowledge management systems (KMSs) continues to expand, understanding how these systems affect exploration and exploitation practices at the individual level is important to advance both knowledge ma...

We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of lexical dynamics in networks. Our new model, the degree-biased voter model with innovation, shows that the probability of existence of a norm is inversely related to innovation probability. When the innovation rate in ...

Unpredictability has two main sources: epistemic uncertainty and ontological unpredictability. When disruptive and downstream innovation become frequent, ontological unpredictability becomes increasingly important for innovation policy and strategy. The analysis of the nature of ontological unpredictability explains why future-oriented technology analysis and foresight frequently fails to grasp...

This work intends to explain step-by-step the special role of standards and their complexity in exercising innovation policy in the European Union. Standards might be an important policy tool for intentional diffusion of market sectors beyond textually available official policy documents/guidelines. This diffusion, having been initiated intentionally, continues in a self-regulated way as the in...

Economic globalization promotes rapid development of scientific technology. The emergence of technological innovation makes that optimal allocation of human resources has been on the agenda gradually.Relying on technological innovation, enhancing the production efficiency of the enterprises constantly, implementing cost-effective or differentiation are the key of devepment.Human resources in th...

– Motivations of open source software contributors – Governance, organization, and process of innovation in OSS projects – Competitive dynamic enforced by OSS 3 Why OSS is important to be studied? • Research on OSS is helping to define an entirely new model of innovation of relevance to many fields beyond OSS. • This model helps us understand how private needs and wants can create public good i...

The importance of technological innovation in defining and shaping our global economy has made it a central research topic over the past decade. The rise of electronics manufacturing technology, specifically the silicon transistor technology, is considered a major factor influencing technological innovation and in turn, affecting the world’s economic and social transformation. The process of te...

Scaling represents successful diffusion that ensures sizeable impact and earnings from ICT innovations in emerging markets. Practice can still be shaped by dualistic views – innovation vs. diffusion, pilot vs. scale-up, lead firm vs. other actors, technical vs. social. Synthesising the literature that challenges these dualities, this paper creates a systemic perspective that is particularly app...