Today’s product companies (original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs) increasingly outsource production, especially when the activities are asset intensive or require process technologies characterized by rapid innovation. When such an OEM also outsources the procurement of the required materials, especially to the party providing the production services, the OEM risks unpleasant surprises, suc...

Innovation awards have for long attracted policy makers as a method for innovation promotion. Still, academic research on innovation awards has thus far received little attention. In particular, empirical studies on the motives to enter award competitions and the realized impacts of winning an innovation award are scarce. This study addresses this research gap. Firm-level evidence, questionnair...

This paper will represent the pedagogy of Innovation Education in Iceland that is a new school policy within the Icelandic school system. In Innovation Education (IE) students are trained to identify needs and problems in their environment and to find solutions: this is referred to as the process of ideation. The main aim is to improve their social capital through general education. Innovation ...

Dept. of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Center for Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan d Inst. of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan e Inst. of Computer Science and Info. Engineering, National Ilan University, Yi-Lan, Taiwan Dept. of ...

The government of Singapore is launching a new university, the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), that is scheduled to take in its first freshman class in April, 2012. SUTD, in collaboration with MIT and Zhejiang University, is striving to establish a 21st century innovation paradigm that recognizes the synergy between innovation and design. Many aspects of...

This paper identifies key elements of the broader processes that contributed to the implementation of an educational innovation involving streaming video. Streaming video was used to support the learning of first year student nurses on a Life Sciences module. The use of streaming video was one of several innovations within the module designed to expand the range of learning resources available ...

Open innovation has drawn significant attention over the years, and there is a growing body of literature that highlights importance considering this phenomenon at national level. Less appreciated, however, radiative capability systems (NIS) linking inbound outbound processes. We provide measurement dual (DIC) NISs based on process-oriented concepts by using multi-indicator approach, which prov...

The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independent of their national identity, and therefore to be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. However, research in intercultural marketing has shown that cultural norms and values have vary...

The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is considered to be universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independently of their national identity, and therefore would be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. Though, research in intercultural marketing has long shown that cultural ...