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...

With increasing market competition, organizations are striving for greater innovation in products and services. Quality management has the potential to invigorate an organization’s product, process and administrative innovation when strategically aligned with internal contingencies. This paper seeks to address the relationship between social and technical quality management with innovation. Mor...

A strong belief exists that competition between de facto standards stimulates innovation and benefits consumers because it drives down the costs of products. The tenability of this belief, and its preconditions and limits, has been widely scrutinized. However, little has been written about competition between negotiated, de jure (i.e., committee) standards. Are competing de jure standards a goo...

What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond technical contributions, they must then integrate their communities in order to mobilize volunteers and avoid the ever-present danger of forking and balkani...

Understanding the adoption process of an innovation is very important for acceptance of the new idea. This paper explores the relationship between technical knowledge, perceived risk and the innovation characteristics for the adoption of mobile marketing. Data from 444 respondents collected through self-administered questionnaire were used to test the proposed model using SEM. Based on the resu...

Permanent changes, short product life cycles and increasing market pressure force companies to an accelerated cycle of product and service innovation. Organisations are facing the challenge to manage the knowledge and skills of their workforce in the context of human resource development. It is needed to prevent the crucial lose of knowledge for competitive advantage. Therefore organisations in...

Technology innovation and creative problem solving are necessary for long-term enterprise survival. Making strategic decisions for product development is a key step in the technical innovation process. Computer-aided innovation (CAI) systems based on TRIZ (Theory of inventive problem solving) support strategic ideas generation of innovation. TRIZ methods are applied to assess the maturity of a ...

In recent years, evaluating the technical innovation activity has gained a renewed interest in both growth economists and trade economists. An evolution model of the technical innovation activity is proposed by applying Kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) and the grey model in this paper. The KPCA is used to features selection and grey model is used to evolution. The proposed method is f...