The social and cognitive mechanisms of cultural evolution have been studied in detail for different domains: language, technology, the economy, art, etc. However, a model that incorporates the function of a cultural tradition and that is able to compare evolutionary dynamics across cultural domains has not been formulated. By exploring the dynamics of comparable linguistic, technological and ar...

One of the defining traits of humanity is our capacity for accumulating innovations. While many authors focus on the innovation process itself, Evolutionary Anthropology has become more interested in the accumulation part of this uniqueness, and in particularly whether something like an evolutionary account of cultural acquisition can explain it. In this chapter I discuss the role and sources o...

This study sought to identify the important constructs associated with service innovation and elucidate the role of information and communication technology in the innovation management. These phenomena are examined from the perspectives of technology as well as soft innovation. A review of the literature related to service innovation, cultural production, and service systems led to the develop...

Increased competition, changes, and uncertainty have forced organizations to embrace innovation as an important function. Paying attention to the innovation is necessary to reply to Rapid technological changes rate. So many researches have been done about innovation, but there are a few studies about innovation in refineries. Due to this fact, the present study aimed to identify human and manag...

In recent years, laboratory studies of cultural evolution have become increasingly prevalent as a means of identifying and understanding the effects of cultural transmission on the form and functionality of transmitted material. The datasets generated by these studies may provide insights into the conditions encouraging, or inhibiting, high rates of innovation, as well as the effect that this h...

China has already become the largest mobile communication market in the world. Yet research into what factors drive Chinese consumers adoption of mobile innovation is limited. This study makes efforts to investigate Chinese consumers’ intentions to adopt mobile innovation, with consideration of their cultural characteristics. Face, a core concept in Chinese cultural values is introduced and its...

Several research studies attempted to study and analyze the factors that affect innovation diffusion. However, the focus was on the innovation attributes rather than the individual factors that help or prevent innovation acceptance and diffusion. This paper advances a conceptual model that integrates individual and cultural factors that affect acceptance and diffusion of innovations. Individual...

Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm’s employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of diversit...

The paradigm of Open-Innovation allows software companies new forms of interactive innovation and its diffusion across socio-cultural boundaries. This process constitutes and is constituted by a heterogeneous network of interacting actors. In this interaction, seeds for innovation will be created and have to be adopted by the participants of the respective network. This paper studies the concep...