In birds and primates, the frequency of behavioural innovation has been shown to covary with absolute and relative brain size, leading to the suggestion that large brains allow animals to innovate, and/or that selection for innovativeness, together with social learning, may have driven brain enlargement. We examined the relationship between primate brain size and both technical (i.e. tool using...

allusion is one of the styles of covered expression, and is one of the basic elements of illustration in the history of vassāf. vāssaf al-hazrah tries to make the prose closer to the poetic prose and add to its effect by using expression elements and especially illusion. the lack of an edited copy of the history of vassāf and its obliged and created prose has been the reason that this work has ...

Anyone familiar with the German IS research culture would expect to find numerous action researchers in Germany. However, a closer examination of the literature reveals there are relatively few if any. There are few publications claiming to report on action research and there is little if any ongoing debate on action research. This paper argues that the lack of publications is a result of a dif...

In recent years, many countries implement the TBT in the export trade practice of agricultural products, which has greatly positive influence on the Chinese agricultural products export enterprise. On the basis of green technical innovation concept, the paper had determined the enterprise green technical innovation motivation mechanism, analyzed the influence of TBT on green technical innovatio...

Purpose: The climate for technical innovation has been improving in the past few years in China. This paper describes a case research concerning technical innovation practices success in three Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the manufacturing industry. This is executed by applying a technical innovation audit tool based on „Western‟ good practices. Methodology: Studies on technical in...

It is very important that non-technical department personnel especially bottom line employee serve as innovators under the requirements of everyone involved in innovation .According the view of this paper, it is feasible and necessary to build everyone involved in innovation problem solving process under Total Innovation Management (TIM) based on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). ...

Product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. One can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. Apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...