What factors affect a scientist’s choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science suggests that this choice is shaped by an “essential tension” between the professional demand for productivity and a conflicting drive toward risky innovation. We examine this tension empirically in the context of biomedical chemistry. We use complex networks t...

Knowledge Supply Chains (KSCs) are the networks that provide knowledge supplies so nourishing one or more business processes carried out by a firm. KSCs are particularly crucial for innovation development processes. The need to recur to open KSCs during the accomplishment of such processes is indeed emphasized by the recent literature on open innovation (Kirschbaum, 2005; Chesbrough, 2006; Gass...

Strategic networks such as Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) and Virtual Customer Communities (VCCs) show a high potential as drivers of value co-creation and collaborative innovation in today’s Networking Era. Both look at the network structures as a source of jointly value creation and open innovation through access to new skills, knowledge, markets and technologies by sharing risk...

We address the problem of providing knowledge management support to business innovation. We consider the context of virtual enterprise environments, where knowledge is often fragmented and heterogeneous, and interoperability is a crucial requirement. We propose a knowledge repository and management infrastructure, called Production and Innovation Knowledge Repository (PIKR), to support open inn...

College graduates employment has become a major social problem, and become a concern for a social issue. To improve the efficiency of college graduates employment, it is necessary to innovation research on the college graduates employment management, including employment management mechanisms innovation, management tools innovation and management means innovation and so on.

Innovation within industrial environment can be viewed as a cyclic loop consisting of four distinct phases, i.e., recognition, initiation, implementation, and stabilization. Different information technology enabled innovation management tools supporting the lifecycle of innovation are classified as five layers, i.e., individual innovation, project innovation, collaborative innovation, distribut...

• Several international academic associations engaged in the study of technological innovation processes and innovation management have been consolidated: ALTEC (Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestión Tecnológica), IAMOT (The International Association for Management of Technology), ISPIM (The International Society for Professional Innovation Management), PICMET (Portland International Conf...

  Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the association between knowledge creation and   organizational innovation among the staff of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS).   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 132 individuals from TUMS   employees were randomly selected based on Cochran’s formula. The questionnaires of knowledge   creation managemen...