China’s economic development is strongly constrained by existing resources, and the implementation of low-carbon economy sustainable requires enterprises to improve their Innovation R&D capability. As an important participant in decision-making execution company, managerial discretion top managers related overall direction organization Taking Shanghai Shenzhen A-share listed companies from ...

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues its relentless spread in many parts of the world, DOI provides a useful framework for analyzing the difficulties in achieving behavior change necessary to reduce HIV rates. The DOI concepts most relevant to this question include communication channels, the innovation-decision process, homophily, the attributes of the innovation, adopter categories, and opinion...

OBJECTIVES To understand organisational technology adoption (initiation, adoption decision, implementation) by looking at the different types of innovation knowledge used during this process. DESIGN Qualitative, multisite, comparative case study design. SETTING One primary care and 11 acute care organisations (trusts) across all health regions in England in the context of infection preventi...

Basic aim of innovating is to provide products and solutions meeting the expectations and needs of their customers and stakeholders. Therefore, customer integration methods provide means to integrate these actors into the innovation process for gathering information, supporting in decision making or creating and elaborating ideas or solutions. One central aspect in this regard is the selection ...

When people interact, they sometimes ask questions that digress from the purpose of the discussion. It is important for a system that interacts with people to be able to distinguish these questions, from questions that are truly incoherent. The two types of questions require different treatment. Whereas the former type may require focusing the discussion, the latter type signals a misunderstand...

Competitive intelligence activities rely on collecting and analyzing data in order to discover patterns from data using sequence data mining. The discovered patterns are used to help decision-makers considering innovation and defining the strategy for their business. In this chapter we present four methods for discovering patterns in the competitive intelligence process: “correspondence analysi...

Background. Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is caused by the production of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) which lead to allograft injury in part via complement activation. The inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies (IDP) are inflammatory disorders of the nervous system, involving both cellular and humoral immune mechanisms directed against myelin. Case Report. A 58-year-old man five yea...