this study aimed at identifying and analyzing issues and challenges on the agricultural research and technology development under the national innovation framework. the survey consisted of two groups: agricultural researchers of agriculture-research and education organization and all faculty members of public agricultural faculties of ministry of scientific, research and technology. using cochr...

Innovation is considered a major driving force for the prosperity of firms and entire economies. Research suggests that a firm’s capacity to acquire and utilize relevant knowledge from internal and external sources, i.e. its absorptive capacity (ACAP), is decisive for innovation success. But what is the role of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) for a firm’s ACAP and innovativeness? Surprisingl...

Introduction: People with ideas about how to improve products and services often benefit from a structured process test their ideas. The Innovation Cohort was developed empower staff at MaineHealth create solutions unmet needs. This article describes the progress perspectives gained over 3 years of program.

Motivated by differences in innovation intensity across advanced economies, this paper presents an empirical examination of the determinants of country-level production of international patents. We introduce a novel framework based on the concept of national innovative capacity. National innovative capacity is the ability of a country to produce and commercialize a flow of innovative technology...

Innovation is doing things in new ways. Innovation involves changes in thinking, products, processes and organization. Many innovations in the public sector occur randomly as a reaction to crises or scandals, or when new leaders desire to show that they are capable. The problem with these innovations is that the public sector does not increase capacity to engage in continuous innovation. Theref...

Abstract Digital technologies are considered as factors that accelerate the pace of innovation and increase firm’s performance. However, few studies have investigated whether this claim is conditioned by other elements contribute to innovation. Furthermore, firms increasingly rely on external knowledge sources expand their internal base for development innovations. In context, absorptive capaci...

Innovation challenges are increasingly adopted for idea generation in interand intrafirm innovation to elicit novel solutions from employees to strategic and businessrelated problems of the firm. However, the current idea-oriented approach is limited in leveraging the full capacity of open innovation, as it focuses more on identifying the best ideas through competition rather than generating ne...