Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group of independent ventures. In particular, corporate ventures are more successful at developing radical innovatio...

A field study was conducted to examine if purchase behavior was systematically related with which segments of consumers who differ in their cognitive and sensory innovativeness, and instrumental and expressive expectations, respectively. Hypotheses are developed concerning the relationship with consumer innovativeness and expectations with purchase behavior, and these hypotheses were tested aga...

Using survey data of electronics firms in the three major electronics clusters in Spain, we examine whether those engaged in networking tend to be more innovative and whether local and extra-regional networking have different effects upon innovativeness. We find a positive relation between different types of network relations and innovativeness. In particular, our findings suggest that subcontr...

Introducing new product to the market is the only way to create sustainable competitive advantage. However, the success of any product/service in market is ultimately depended on consumer acceptance. Innovativeness is one of the individual characteristics that might influence the acceptance of novel product/services. Innovativeness itself also from other side might be affected by several factor...

In this paper the findings of an empirical study concerning the innovation determinants in manufacturing firms is presented. The empirical study covers 184 manufacturing firms located in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey. The types of innovation considered here are product, process, marketing and organizational innovations. An extensive literature survey on innovation determinants is provid...

the extension of the modern irrigation systems (mis) has been considered as one of the mechanisms for increasing irrigation water use efficiency since 1990s in zanjan province. the main purpose followed in this descriptive - correlational study was to examine the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of mis in zanjan and khodabande townships of the province through a survey, making use of a str...