This paper acknowledges that ethical questions raised by ICT are so fundamental that they include the question of the anthropological changes caused by communications tools. It then looks at the motivation of large companies to discharge their social responsibilities. The paper also argues that Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are no longer the main decision makers for fundamental strategic corp...

Recent advances in medical imaging, information and communication technology promise to support medical visual practice as well as everyday healthcare experience. However, this potential is not easy to realize. A better understanding of existing practices can inform socio-technical innovation. We draw on ethnographic observations and our involvement in the design of 'palpable computing' to exam...

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 54 I. BOTTLENECKS IN THE TECHNICAL, PROPRIETARY, AND ETHICAL DOMAINS............................................................................................................. 59 A. TECHNICAL DOMAIN: SCIENTIFIC DATA AND MATERIALS SHARING ......... 61 B. PROPRIETARY DOMAIN: PATENT RI...

Open innovation is an emerging innovation paradigm that can greatly accelerate technical knowledge innovation in software companies. The increasing importance and density of software in today’s products and services puts extensive pressure on excelling the discovery, description and execution of innovation. Despite that, software engineering literature lacks methods, tools and frameworks for fu...

The application of the Living Lab (LL) approach to social-technical innovation to the Digital Doorway Initiative in Zandspruit near Johannesburg is outlined in the context of the initiative’s evolution from an educational project to a broader community innovation initiative. The relationship between different stakeholders is explored in a theoretical and practical sense as a future research and...

This paper discusses the relative merits of discrete vs. continuous perspectives on innovation, technical change, and economic growth. It discusses the innovation time series liteature in some detail to extract the continuous and clustering properties of the historical record on innovation. It then proposes a mosaic/avalanche model based on percolation theory and selforganized criticality to ad...

The paper highlights the importance of design in product innovation, using portable computers as an empirical case study. This is an attempt to redress the balance in the innovation and product technology literature, which has overwhelmingly focused on hardware technologies (technical characteristics) of products. Principal components analysis is used to identify clusters of design characterist...

This paper is intended to serve as a support for decision in innovation management from the Es Logic. We intend to propose a new method for innovation management, based on technical and operational criteria in order to make decisions can be not only reliable but also operationally efficient. This research presents results that can serve to innovation managers.