This paper investigates the influence of firm resources on banking service innovation performance. Drawing on the resource-based perspective, we propose a research model in which the effects of three kinds of resources i.e., employee skills, IT investment, and customer co-creation, are examined. Pilot survey data collected from 34 banks in Singapore was used as a preliminary test of the researc...

The paper is a research-in-progress that focuses on examining the applicability of lean principles to the crowdsourcing process. While crowdsourcing is seen as an excellent exemplar of open innovation, there is no research that has focused on the wasteful, time-consuming or bloated nature of many crowdsourcing initiatives. This paper attempts to address this gap and examine the applicability of...

This study aimed to construct the organizational innovation indicators of technical universities and institutes. This study held a group discussion and expert focus meeting and afterward, this study generalized seven facets of school organizational innovation: leadership innovation, administration innovation, student guidance and activity innovation, curriculum and instruction innovation, teach...

Introduction In a knowledge-based economy, a good overview of the scientific and technological portfolio is essential for policy formation and driving knowledge transfer to the industry and the broad public. In order to enhance open innovation, the Flemish public administration has created a Flanders research information portal (FRIS, http://www.researchportal.be) that integrates information av...

The last decade have seen a rapid increase in academic studies and business practices of Open Innovation (OI). A key reason for this has been that OI embodies potentialities of expanding markets through external sourcing of innovation and minimize internal innovation costs. Moreover, it can capture enormous knowledge dispersed around the globe in order to buy/license inventions/Innovations or p...

In healthcare, a promising direction for innovation lies in harnessing the innovation potential of patients. Web-based platforms have created a new and powerful route to open innovation in healthcare. In a sector where knowledge resources within organizational boundaries are limited, this study is focused on understanding how online innovation intermediaries (OIIs) in healthcare help to transfe...

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...

Standards have played an important, but often unrecognized role in the development of modern organizations. This role is accentuated by today's growth of large business and government infrastructures, in the turbulent processes of globalization. In this article we investigate the relationships and tensions – between standardization strategies and service innovation in the health care sector. Ou...