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Content industries go through a demanding time adjusting to the digital age, revamping their business processes when sales of paper documents are not an option any more. Formal standardisation is facing the same challenges as organisations like ISO and CEN see sales of publications as their core business. This paper presents a case study from European pre-standardisation. CEN Workshop on Learning...
An ambitious initiative by the University of North Carolina Wilmington demonstrates how public nonresearch universities can help close the US innovation deficit by encouraging local entrepreneurship and regional economic development. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/-FOmleTOlak is a video interview in which Computer magazine Advisory Panel member Alf Weaver interviews Chancellor Gary L. Miller about...
In this paper we identify a tension between the discourse around managing temporary assignments focused on producing innovative outcomes, that is, the discourse related to projects and project management, and the emerging understanding of innovation processes, as captured by the concept of interactive innovation. Contrasting the project management discourse with what we now understand about innovation...
In this paper, we adopt the organizing vision perspective to examine the creation and adoption of straight-through-processing (STP), an inter-organizational information system innovation, in Taiwan Financial Industry. Through the lens of organizing vision and the use of qualitative research, we reveal the dynamic of interpretations and actions among different social actors in this community, and how...
Although 3D immersive virtual worlds such as Active Worlds, Second Life, and There have been in existence for several years, their organizational use is limited and falls short of their recreational use (e.g., social and entertainment activities). In this paper we build on the diffusion of innovations and lateralization of the brain literatures to link recreational and organizational use of virtual...
In order to help innovation researchers to study the complex and dynamic Innovation Eco-system to answer important questions such as "why some science and technology (S&T) innovations become highly popular, while many others do not?", we designed a knowledge-base, i.e., ontology, to capture innovations, key actors - individuals and organizations that play key roles in innovations'...
Better understanding of how and why networks of open innovation and global participatory science communities form and evolve, and how they can be governed or influenced toward sustainable innovation and productive states are critical questions. To this end, a simulation-based exploratory study is conducted to better understand the conditions that confer increased rates of innovation in such socio-technical...
The importance of user innovation is widely accepted, but the development of the Internet of Things is primarily driven by large commercial players. Using an innovation perspective, this paper identifies how user innovation and market-based innovation can be combined in the Internet of Things (IoT). A survey of tools for user/developers in the IoT space uncovers a rich set of tools for creation of...
Even though open and user approaches drive actually innovation, there is still a lack of tools and strategies that help organizations to improve their innovation management during collaboration with others. This is the case of organizations having problems to harness the knowledge fluxes in an innovation space. “Living Lab Micro Innovation Cell” (iCell) is our proposal of a strategy to co-design prototypes...
The nature of education is to serve the community. MBA education is to develop elites who are capable to serve the nations. This paper concentrates on analyzing the problems arising from MBA education. The essence of MBA education has decided the targets of MBA education. MBA teaching model is designed to achieve these targets. Thus, the MBA course setting is affected by both teaching methods and...
With maturation of developed nations' market and rise of emerging nations' market, diversity of the markets and competitiveness of the global business environment have increased. As for the enterprise, better organizational ability based on “Knowledge-Creating Activities” becomes indispensable for continuously new value-creating and value-acquiring functions. SECI Model has been well known in organizational...
Case studies, a valuable tool in business education, are used to permit students access to situations and environments which are not accessible in a classroom. One element of a business case study differentiating it from a simple company history is that the tone and content is often designed with an ulterior objective or to achieve a certain state of mind before a discussion point: they are engineered...
Our country is a late starter in grassroots innovation research. However, grassroots innovation is the starting point of the innovation chain in our country and has become indispensable force in technological advancement and social progress. It is the foundation of the social innovation framework. Consequently innovation research has been extended to civil innovation by theoretical researchers and...
This paper aims to disentangle how to play the brokerage roles of innovation networks in enhancing innovation performance. Based on extant studies on innovation networks, five dimensions of the brokerage problems are discussed and each of them is combined with a proposition.
Although the concept of online CoPs using Web 2.0-enabled applications has been very successful within a social context, it is not yet prevalent amongst organisations or universities specialising in knowledge transfer. Indeed, both concepts (i.e. Web 2.0 and knowledge flow) are still emergent in nature. This paper details the successful implementation of an online Community of Practice (CoP) for an...
Open innovation, by sponsoring communities of knowledge contributors, has attracted the attention of business firms as it can help generate diverse ideas to innovate new products. This paper draws attention to forking within communities, whereby sub-groups form and pursue agendas different from the overall community's goals. While forking can sometimes be beneficial, it can also harm the community...
Based on a successful implementation of a Collaborative Digital Network (CDN) the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (WMCCM, http://www.wmccm.com), this paper presents a breeding environment to enable stakeholders to innovate and gain competitive advantage in the global market. Stakeholders in a CDN form Communities of Practice (CoPs) and they collectively belong to an Electronic Network...
It is not an isolation, the self-seal system, for all the organization, particularly for the rapid change and the development social environment. The enterprise must make the corresponding adjustment and the transformation enhances the management potency, unceasingly based on the environment change. The enterprise may through the innovation and carries on the management to the innovation, breaks the...
In the era of knowledge-based economy, the contribution of innovation of service enterprises to economic development is growing, but the existing theories are focused on technological innovation of manufacturing enterprises mainly. Comparing to manufacturing enterprises, service enterprises pay more attention to the innovation to satisfy customer demand and accumulate knowledge. This paper establishes...
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