Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win–win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution ‘to teach students to be critical about any kin...

Cultivating collective innovation while preserving the interest of the individual contributors is one of the main challenges collaborative innovation networks face. This challenge is riddled with difficulties in managing individuals’ co-innovation risks. The first step toward understanding co-innovation risks is the development of a valid and reliable model to measure the actors’ perception of ...

When we first set about designing the PFI program, we had many hours of lively debate about how it should be structured. What guidelines should we develop for prospective grantees? What parameters should we require of the partnerships? We all knew that PFI would best serve its purpose if it attracted a wide variety of institutions, partnerships, and proposed experiments and innovation. In the e...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the Telekat project is to prevent re-admissions of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by developing a preventive program of tele-rehabilitation across sectors for COPD patients. The development of the program is based on a co-innovation process between COPD patients, relatives, healthcare professionals and representatives from private firms and un...

Innovation is often talked about but not always well understood in the Australian public service context. At the same time, enhancing public sector performance is a key goal of the Australian Government and other governments around the world. Innovation, particularly in policy development, program design and service delivery, is a necessary element in public services becoming better targeted, m...

a Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150, USA b Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA c Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA d School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA e ...

Traditional concepts of managing product innovation are not suitable for innovation in complex product systems (CPSs). This paper argues that firms developing and integrating the components of CPSs need specific competence for managing such projects. A framework for evaluating a firm’s competence in CPS innovation is developed that covers managing the integration of internal and external key re...