There has been very little overlap or even interchange between scholars studying technological advance, and scholars in the field of cognitive science. Yet both fields of study are concerned with human know-how, the former at the level of society, and the latter at the level of the individual. Recent developments in cognitive science have made possible greater contact between the two fields. Th...

We live in a time of wave-upon-wave of innovation in Information Technology: Client/server Systems, Distributed Object Technology, Data Warehousing, Work Flow Systems, Document Management, Groupware Systems, ERP and packaged applications, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). The game of introducing each succeeding wave always follows a similar pattern. The new innovation first appeals to "...

For more than 20 years, interdisciplinary innovation research utilizes systems of innovation (SI) as a valuable core concept for analyzing innovation phenomena at large scale. Until today, this concept has not been referred to widely in information systems (IS) research. In this paper, we argue that SI may serve as a useful study subject for IS research. For analyzing and intervening into syste...

This paper presents a view of innovation as a process that changes value systems of producers and adopters of creative design ideas. Value systems comprise interpretations of the function and behaviour of an artefact, encapsulated in a producer’s or adopter’s situation. Changes in these value systems can be induced using distinct classes of processes. The paper shows that innovation requires ch...

A 'national innovation system' refers to the system of institutional and socioeconomic conditions that influence the innovation activity of a nation 1. It has two important characteristics. The first characteristic, say, a horizontal one, is its relationship with other 'systems'. In every country, the most active performer of innovation is private firms: inevitably, therefore, a nation's innova...

The Atlantic Healthcare Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement in Chronic Disease (AHC) Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) in Eastern Canada provided an approach to spur system-level reform across multiple health systems for patients and families living with chronic disease. Developed and led by senior executives with a unique governance approach and involving clinical front-line tea...

It is widely acknowledged that innovation is a key factor for competitiveness and that output growth and productivity depend on the development and diffusion of new technologies (OECD, 1997). However, the innovation process is not linear, but a complex and interactive one, involving business and non-business institutions. Kline and Rosenberg’s (1986) “chain-linked” interactive model is an examp...

Many current sustainability considerations in industry constrain design space by emphasizing reduced material and energy flows across product life cycles. However, there are also opportunities for sustainability awareness to extend design space and drive innovation. Product-service systems (PSS) in particular can be a vehicle through which sustainability-driven innovation occurs. A framework fo...