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There appears to be a potential dichotomy in clean technology or cleantech entrepreneurship, business-oriented and social entrepreneurship. This dichotomy is studied using two representative case studies. One case is Verdant Power, which is a world leader in the development of marine renewable energy technology and project development. The other case is Green Map Systems, which is a not-for-profit...
Although increasingly complex, modern innovation is still largely viewed through distinct sectoral lenses-e.g. large corporate R&D and new product development, entrepreneurial small or new ventures, or public programs or projects. However, Cleantech innovation is different-more blended, networked and boundary spanning. To understand such innovation the emerging cleantech industry in New York City-triggered...
In this business case study, we describe the transformation of Wipro, a Bangalore-based information technology company. Founded in 1945 as Western India Vegetable Products Limited, Wipro is today the world's largest independent R&D services provider and among the top three offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers with over 490 clients, 53000 employees and 40 plus development...
This paper focuses on a new generation of companies which use the mobile platform for providing a wide variety of services. Such companies represent a further development in redefining the optimal paradigm for innovation on the mobile platform in that they have partly succeeded in shifting the balance of power away from the carriers and toward the users. Moreover, they have adopted a more global stance...
With the evolution of the mobile platform and the rapid adoption of mobile devices such as cell phones and other handheld devices, social networks, which began as Web-based applications, have migrated onto the mobile platform. This paper focuses on the development of these networks and how users of these networks have become a prime source of innovation on the mobile platform. Mobile social networks...
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