1 Learning from experience Innovation in the NHS is now being driven regionally by strategic health authorities. Learning how other national and international organisations have approached, planned and embedded innovation will help SHAs foster a culture of innovation. This overview outlines key evidence about what has worked well and what has been challenging elsewhere in adopting and dissemina...

The paradox of open innovation lies in the conflict between the practical desire to reap the benefits of open innovation and concern over the risk that others will misappropriate those benefits. Stakeholder theory and recent developments in value creation through stakeholder engagement can assist with reconciliation of this inherent structural risk. The limitations of existing open innovation t...

Universities have played a continued role in facilitating and enhancing the innovative potential of U.S. companies. Key to these relationships is the transfer of knowledge both from university to industry as well as from industry to university. But, few researchers have explored how different relationships necessitate specific cultural orientations, absorptive capacity abilities, and management...

Innovation is the core motivation of the economic development, while the open innovation model provides our country enterprise an opportunity to improve the innovation capability. The implementation of the open innovation improve the enterprise innovation capacity, for it makes the enterprise can effectively integrate internal and external innovation resources, constructs a new innovation syste...

This paper focuses on coupled processes with key suppliers, which we call supply chain-open innovativeness relationships. Drawing on social exchange theory, we identify some antecedents of this orientation in the relationship an organization can maintain with its key supplier. We measure some of these constructs in terms of gap by comparing perceptions with previous expectations. We also analyz...

This paper is based on domestic and foreign scholars for meta-universe concept, characteristics influencing factors of theoretical research, through comparative analysis summarizes the space concept technical composite presents “strong interaction, high real-time, strong correlation, deep immersion to center” characteristics, case study found that “highly independent information sharing, innova...

The new service development of knowledge-intensive companies in emerging economies is changing from processes with only economic goals to processes that combine economic and social needs. In this approach, processes are socially constructed through society, aiming at achieving innovation success. The main research goal is to explore how companies organise the development process of new services...

The Making Design and Analysing Interaction track at the Participatory Innovation Conference calls for submissions from ‘Makers’ who will contribute examples of participatory innovation activities documented in video and ‘Analysts’ who will analyse those examples of participatory innovation activity. The aim of this paper is to open up for a discussion within the format of the track of the role...

Public sector organisations are increasingly becoming aware of the need to harness the innovative capacity of their employees. In the UK many public sector research institutes have put in place processes to increase the speed at which new technological innovations are exploited and commercialised. These types of initiatives have also been implemented into public sector service organisations. Fo...