The consequence of taking customer orientation serious is to integrate them right at the heart of value creation – in new product design and development. The transitions in innovation management during the last years allow us exactly to that in a more resolute way. By democratizing knowledge and information the social media revolution strongly supported the dissemination of concepts such as ope...

In this paper the relation between ICT-innovations and the culture of public administration is explored. Recent research shows that, regarding these kinds of innovations, there often is a one-sided focus on efficiency and customer orientation and a dominant belief in ICT as a neutral instrument in the hands of government. One of the consequences is an underestimation of the role of organization...

Pilang Village in Sragen Regency is renowned for its unique batik centers, known their distinctive flora and fauna ornaments. The local government actively supports artisans by promoting innovation providing assistance design, production, marketing. However, entrepreneurs the creative industry face challenges related to fostering innovation, strategic planning, embracing risk-taking enhance mar...

1. OPEN INNOVATION Open innovation was defined by Henry Ches-broug, a professor at Harvard Business School, in 2003. He believes that in an open innovation model, companies should use internal and external strength to develop new products and to commercialize them (Chesbrough, 2005). Figure 1 shows the open innovation model. In the closed innovation model, the steps from new products developmen...

—Use of e-learning and blended-learning strategies in European universities seems to be currently fuelled by political, social, or economic reasons. However, very often these reasons are not enough to completely captivate teachers and students. This paper tells the role the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education of the Public University of Navarre (Spain) has decided to play within the insti...

the main purpose of this research is to develop an islamic social education curriculum model for secondary schools. reaching to this purpose we used the normative method and deduction. investigating the ratio of practicable usage of normative methodology concepts with current subject orientation curriculum, appeared the necessity of change in current value based orientations in social education...

This paper examines the implications for research into the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and national systems of innovation (NSI) in the innovation process. The second area deals with the argument that enterprises must move from a “closed innovation” to an “open innovatio...