Abstract. The impacts of innovation programs may go far beyond improvements in private R&D expenditures and patents. In this paper we propose that domestic-level programs, not necessarily designed to increase international links in science and technology, may indirectly foster international cooperation in innovation, by providing additional funding, experience in domestic collaboration, and lea...

How can we identify whether innovation processes in an organization, a region or a sector are stagnating? Moreover, how can we assess the degree of innovation stagnation? These are issues at the core of the management of innovation literature,and the challenge of how to answer these questions in real time remains a problem yet to be solved, particularly in cases where innovation is highly expec...

the changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. the main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. with the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

In this paper, we motivate the need for collaborative research and design for IT innovation in crisis response and management. We describe the value of such methodology and demonstrate how working alongside users enables creative anticipation of emergent future practices that can inform both more ‘appropriate’ and more ambitious innovation. We demonstrate how co-design methods are particularly ...

The objective of this paper is to provide an analysis of particulate metal emissions in the USA. The analysis will identify natural and industrial sources, environmental standards, emission trends, and controls of particulate emissions. Since the majority of airborne metal emissions originate from metal industries and electric utility facilities, environmental and worker assessments of exposure...

This thesis focuses on the impact of coordination mechanisms, createdaround technological standards with a special focus on 3rd generation Informationand Communication Technology, on innovation. We are particularly interested in twotypes of coordination mechanisms: patent pools and industry consortia. This thesis iscomprised of four econometric papers analyzing the impact of con...

Prior research concerning IT business value has established a link between firm-level IT investment and tangible returns like output productivity. Research also suggests that IT is vital to intermediate processes like those that produce intangible output. Among these, IT’s use in innovation and knowledge creation processes are perhaps the most critical to a firm’s long-term success. However, li...

transform the UK's capacity for innovation. We invest in early-stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish. This working paper was published as part of the Innovation Index project that NESTA is running pursuant to Recommendation 18 in the UK Government's 'Innovation Nation' white paper (March, 2008). As a consequence, it is intended to ex...

this paper presents a descriptive study which examines the co-alignment between total quality management (tqm) and technology/research and development (r&d;) management in predicting organizational performance in terms of quality and innovation. this study improves our understanding of the relationship between tqm and innovation based on the following two major issues. first, this study contrib...