Service innovations are central concerns in fast changing environment. Due to the fitness in customer demands and advances in information technologies (IT) in service management, an expanded conceptualization of e-service innovation is required. Specially, innovation practices have become increasingly more challenging, driving managers to employ a different open innovation model to maintain com...

Science, technology and innovation (STI), targeted to solve both generic location-specific challenges, are key drivers for transforming agri-food systems. These can transform the sustenance low return livelihood a profitable respectable occupation smallholder farmers, while motivating, attracting empowering youth women in agriculture. A paradigm shift is needed to: i) increase productivity, pro...

In this paper we consider the role of information technology and innovation within the context of an agile organisation performing electronic commerce. The paper will utilise Schein’s sociotechnical model of innovation to consider the relationships between structure, process, innovation, technology and organisational culture, and focuses upon innovation and technology, examining six of Schein’s...

On the basis of investigation and interview, so many affect factors were found out, and according to the research on innovation theory, the affect factors of technology innovation in Marine pharmaceutical enterprises in Zhejiang province were identified as human resources, Marine science and technology policy, financing environment, infrastructure, and Marine technology platform, Marine cultura...

during the past decade, the world economic forum has published its annual reports in which the global competitiveness index is included. this paper aims to investigate the key factors for achieving an innovation-driven economy. in this paper, we used partial canonical correlation analysis (pcca) to examine the relationships between key pillars in “efficiency enhancers” and “business sophisticat...

This paper investigates the current issues for conducting technology transfer and innovation processes at food processing enterprises in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. By conducting an extensive qualitative study comprised of 8 in-depth interviews with Executive managers and R&D managers, we identify seven main themes that emerged from the data concerning the specific contents for food processing e...

We live in a time of wave-upon-wave of innovation in Information Technology: Client/server Systems, Distributed Object Technology, Data Warehousing, Work Flow Systems, Document Management, Groupware Systems, ERP and packaged applications, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). The game of introducing each succeeding wave always follows a similar pattern. The new innovation first appeals to "...

Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country’s output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering of these goods, contributing to domestic imitation and innovation. This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in both developed and developing countries. It then considers the contributi...