This paper seeks to trace some of the roots and problems of the rational view of innovation. Concentrating primarily upon product innovation, we point out that the eighteenth century notion of social progress in the light of reason has gradually given an enormous impetus to a rational view of product innovation in modern organizations. We summarize several decades of research into management of...

This project aims to draw attention to user driven innovation in the health care sector. The goal is to develop and test methods for user driven innovation in the context of health care. Methods which have proven valuable in industrial contexts may lack suitable counterparts within the health care sector. The report consists of an overview of innovation theory, hereunder user driven innovation ...

the aim of this study includes investigation into the impact of education based on gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (mi) on educational achievement of high school students (grade ii) in mathematics from garmsar city. the current study is of applied type in terms of nature since research is seeking for testing of some theoretical concepts in real and live situations. whereas the presen...

development of technology is one of the main factors of political change of the modem world. a technological change could change nature and structure of political arrangements of the society. this restructuring of the society could happen by economic and professional change, by creating new division of labor, by creating new classes and new resources, and so on. in this article, first of all, a...

Abstract: Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between...

technological innovation, because of its curtail role in socio-economic development is one of the important aspects of governmental policies. in this article technological innovation is studied by an institutional approach. public policy by applying this approach could use norms, regulations and other institutional measures to improve innovations and technological policy. more specifically in t...

innovation has attracted considerable interest in recent years in improving competitive advantage for both profit and nonprofit organizations. service innovation offers the potential for substantially improving the performance, but performance gains are often obstructed by users’ unwillingness to accept and use available systems. this research aims to use the concept of reasoned action theory t...

The fundamental role of knowledge for acquiring and maintaining competitive advantage emphasizes the need for effective and strategic KM in organizations. When effective and reliable methods drive approaches to KM, this in turn supports the integration of value-creating activities into organizational processes and increases an organization's potential to achieve innovation, agility and competit...