One of the most critical issues for building innovation capacity in organisations is the acquisition and maintenance of knowledge. As knowledge is the basis of human capital, then the ability to attract, retain and engage talent is argued to be an important element of innovation. By attracting and retaining good staff, the organisation is retaining organisational knowledge which is necessary pa...

How can we inspire service innovation through the co-design of public sector healthcare delivery particularly when facing a large and complex challenge? The design and development of a new prototype food service to address malnutrition in older adult hospital patients is used as a case study. It describes how methods used predominantly by designers have been adapted to empower, train, inspire, ...

The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most critical areas of innovation for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs). ICT is seen as tool for achieve service differentiation and improving connectivity with other supply chain partner. Nevertheless, many logistics service companies had failed to use ICT to gain competitive advantage as the implementati...

In spite of the recent acknowledgements of “open source development” type of user-led innovation, our understanding is still limited as to its applicability and benefit. Particularly, from the viewpoint of firms making consumer goods, it remains unclear whether they can take advantage of peer-to-peer interaction and collaboration among consumers in the Internet era. Through an analysis of the v...

This paper deals with an on line identification of the values of these entities by a suitable adjusting of the filter gain and incorporating information about the quality of innovation sequence. The result yields a new adaptive Kalman filter. The proposal is mainly based on statistical properties of the innovation sequence of the filter and improves some previous results pointed out by Bellange...

In this paper, we see whether chance discovery in the form of KeyGraphs can be used to reveal deep building blocks to competent genetic algorithms, thereby speeding innovation in particularly difficult problems. On an intellectual level, showing the connection between KeyGraphs and genetic algorithms as related pieces of the innovation puzzle is both scientifically and computationally interesti...

With the advent of innovative technologies and multi-dimensional researches along the setting of entrepreneurship development, philosophy, context and business handling has been transformed from being traditional to innovative. Depending on diversity and nature of the transformation, innovation has been shifted from closed to open to crowdsourcing innovation. Ranging from small entrepreneurs to...

The following essay is based on a Keynote Address to the OECD ‘‘High Level Meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technology Policy,’’ Oslo, March 4, 2008, on the topic ‘‘Adjusting Policy to New Dimensions in Science, Technology and Innovation.’’ The objective of the talk was to point out the difficulty of linking specific policies to specific measures of successful innovation, while never...

Patent pools have been promoted as an innovative means of promoting the production of fixed-dose combination antiretroviral medicines (ARVs), which can be particularly appropriate for resource-poor settings. An important question, however, is what are the implications of patent pools on innovation for creating new and improved antiretrovirals. Indeed, given the continuing mutation of HIV and gr...

Amenability is a geometric property of convex cones that stronger than facial exposedness and assists in the study error bounds for conic feasibility problems. In this paper we establish numerous properties amenable investigate relationships between amenability other cones, such as niceness projectional exposure. We show compact slice closed cone equivalent to cone, prove several results on pre...