Recurrent mistakes in the treatment of technological innovation in Brazil are identified. A movement on behalf of technological innovation is proposed, based on: an understanding of what technological innovation is (and is not); appreciation of every relevant component; recognition of its systemic and self-coordinating character; and the establishment of an appropriate support.

In the background of big data, technological innovation has met some new opportunities and challenges. Based on expounding the concept and key technologies of big data, the concept, main data resources and characteristics of data driven technological innovation are analyzed. And some key problems of data driven technological innovation are discussed from technological and management perspective...

The purpose of this paper is to study the motivation of enterprise technological innovation. This paper analyzes the motivation sources of enterprise technological innovation, and defines five types of sources: technological driving, demands pulling, market competition driving, entrepreneur preference driving and government behavior driving. Motivation factors are classified into three aspects,...

Technological innovation talent is the core element of economic and social development. It is a symbol of a country's soft power reflected from the perspective of knowledge. Therefore it is theoretically valuable and practically significant for a country to evaluate the comprehensive level technological innovation. Based on the construction of evaluation index system of the technological innova...

How to effectively implement environmental management practices and supply chain integration to enhance technological innovation performance has become crucial in both research and practice. Based on resource-based view (RBV) theory, a theoretical model to determine the relationship between environmental management practices, supply chain integration, supply chain knowledge sharing, and technol...

This paper aims to explain what causes attempts at radical technological innovation in the military sphere to succeed or fail. Using four United States satellite reconnaissance programs as test cases, the paper also clarifies and enriches the associated historical record using recently declassified sources. Three hypotheses are derived from the military innovation and organization theory litera...

In this paper, we will review the literature on technological innovation persistence and provide a general theoretical framework to analyze the main determinants of this innovative behavior. Moreover, no previous empirical study has taken into account organizational innovation practices as possible determinants of innovation persistence. We will therefore include them, as previous studies have ...

Models of innovation take a number of forms, each of which is helpful in highlighting particular aspects and enabling better understanding and practice. There are some models are designed for public organizations in the literature. However, they are not appropriate for Turkish public organizations because dynamics of the innovation process such as drivers, sources, and barriers show significant...

This paper examines the impact of acquisitions on the subsequent innovation performance of acquiring firms in the chemicals industry. We distinguish between technological acquisitions, acquisitions in which technology is a component of the acquired firm’s assets, and nontechnological acquisitions: acquisitions that do not involve a technological component. We develop a framework relating acquis...