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Research institutes play an important role as part of the innovation landscape, which includes industrial, academic and governmental organisations. Although there is often much confusion over what constitutes an institute and there can even be a number of different terms associated with such organisational forms, including centres, networks, programmes and laboratories. Indeed institutes can enable...
On the basis of a synthetic review of the literature about the Living Labs phenomenon, the article investigates to what extent the theoretical approach finds a coherent application in the reality. Focusing on 15 Italian living labs associated to the ENoLL, the study addresses a comparative analysis based on a set of features extracted from the literature. In providing a significant overview of the...
Innovation is receiving considerable attention since companies are facing difficulties to create new products and interact with customers under markets that constantly changes. In the face of such scenario the open innovation seems to be an effective strategy to keep enterprises aware of customer needs and also interact with universities which are able to understand the tendencies and holds deep knowledge...
Great ideas change the world. New ideas have the power to be the engine to transform the way we live our lives and how markets operate. This paper provides a blueprint for shaping and delivering improved company performance by improving idea management within organizations. It discusses balancing the need for more innovative ideas and an organization taking on greater risk. Leadership and culture...
We extend the management of paradoxical tensions literature to the inter-organizational level and analyze how paradoxical tensions are identified, perceived and managed in an open innovation consortium and how they relate to the perception of proximity by the different actors, following Boschma's typology. We study the actors' perceptions, and the asymmetries thereof, concerning the intra- and inter-organizational...
This paper investigates the use of knowledge brokers who provide a technology intelligence brokering service to help firm's access external knowledge for their innovation process, especially as part of ‘search and scanning’. This is seen as an important intermediation role. The paper provides an overview of the different functions of ‘knowledge brokers’ that have emerged to assist firms with innovation...
U-I collaborative Innovation has become an imperative for both universities and companies to strengthen their values and to remain competitiveness gained. This paper, Firstly based on U-A model and dominant design perspective, identifies three key controllable factors which affecting U-I innovation performance as research hypothesis; Secondly, based on the acquisition of 551 questionnaires and the...
In order to understand the industries-universities collaboration (IUC) tendency on technology development in developed and developing countries, we analyze the current state of affairs in Sweden and Tunisia. Empirical investigation from 45 companies in both countries was conducted to measure their propensity (actual) and predisposition (in the future) to collaborate with the universities. R&D...
As one of the main bodies of research and development, Swedish universities, who rank top worldwide in getting public funding, should highlight their responsibility in transferring knowledge into productivity in the construction of national innovation system within the new organizational field ``knowledge-based economy''. Based on the framework of Triple Helix Model, the paper describes and evaluates...
In the modern service, companies need to continuously innovate in services and thus enhance their competitive advantage. The process of innovation in service firms will be affected by many factors, competitors also an important source of innovation. In this paper, the author started with the drive of service innovation, focusing on the impact of competitors on service innovation, and consider that...
University-Industry collaborative Innovation (U-I co-innovation) has become an imperative for both universities and companies to strengthen their values and to remain competitiveness. This paper, Firstly based on U-A model and dominant design perspective, identifies three key controllable factors which affecting U-I innovation performance most to construct the Mechanism of the U-I co-innovation; Secondly,...
The role of HP Labs, the central research arm of Hewlett-Packard, is to look beyond the roadmap of currently offered products and services and solve some exciting technical problems that will be critical to customers. The paper mentions that active collaboration with academic, commercial, and government partners augments and accelerates knowledge creation and technology transfer.
With the economics and society globalization, international university-industry collaboration (which happens cross boundaries) is emerging, which is distinguish from the university network and from the usual university-industry collaboration in one country. Integrating open innovation, R&D globalization, national innovation system, and university-industry knowledge transfer, the study examines...
This article discusses how to reduce the barriers universities and industry face when working together on collaborative research projects. As a best practices study, the article describes lessons that should not be viewed as isolated experiments, but as practices that can create the synergy required to drive collaborative research, innovation, and digital inclusion. This is particularly critical for...
Brazil is the leading country in nanotechnology research in Latin America and has been the first to implement a national policy to stimulate the productive sector to innovate in that emerging field. Based on Georgia Tech global databases of nanotechnology scientific publications and patents, we analyze the role of Brazilian firms in the development of nanotechnology, their research and commercialization...
This paper addresses the topic of anticipating likely development paths for a particular ??New and Emerging Science & Technology?? (NES&T). Characteristics of NES&T - technological uncertainty and contextual dynamics - pose challenges for technology management and forecasting practices. Researchers, technologists, R&D managers, staff in funding agencies and policy makers ??need to...
The institutional settings of universities influence many aspects of their activities including their R&D collaboration with the industry. This paper makes a comparison among national universities, public universities and private universities regarding university-industry R&D collaboration in Japan. The paper finds that national universities conduct substantial R&D, attract company R&D...
Based on the analysis of modes of university-industry collaborative innovation in manufacturing industry and innovation characteristics in service, this thesis puts forward a fresh way to classify university industry collaborative innovation in service into four modes from two different perspectives. The basic characteristics of the four modes are compared. By looking at a typical case, this thesis...
The R&D expenditure in Korea has increased in the past decade. We have also tried to foster the institutions including universities and research institutes in order to strengthen the innovation capability. The present study was undertaken to investigate the centralities of the universities and the research institutes in Korea by analyzing the networks of the domestic/international collaborative...
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