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Open Innovation' is a management perspective that suggests to systematically make use of knowledge that lies outside of an organization's boundaries for innovation initiatives. It has been heavily discussed for product innovation, however, an 'open' perspective on business process innovation - here referred to as 'open process innovation' - has not yet been taken. Examining open process innovation...
E-commerce transactions in the present market play an increasingly large proportion, and apparel consumption in the e-era has great business opportunities, to make in-depth study of apparel network marketing is necessary. Compared to the traditional marketing model, apparel network marketing has an advantage in the operating cost, convenience, interactivity, etc., but there are many deficiencies:...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the Isomorphic relationship between regional and organizational culture by a case study combined with qualitative and quantitative research methods in Daqing Oilfield Limited Company. The result shows that the organizational culture of the company is dominated by the Hierarchy and Clan culture, and is full of harmonious and concordant, the sense of collectivism...
This paper studies the mediating role of incubator capability for the relationship between incubator resources and incubator performance. To justify it, a survey is conducted with managers from 150 incubators in China. Three types of incubator resources influence the performance respectively through the same variable “incubator capability” but with different mediating effects.
The need of businesses that combine products with service has begun to be recognized recently. However, there exist few studies on such businesses, and none that propose corporate strategy for them. Most of the existing service science literature deals with the classification of business types and the methods to evaluate value. This paper explores the product service system with an uncertainty factor...
Considering the importance of network for technological innovation, this paper takes a new view on technological innovation capability (TIC) and develops TIC indicator system, moreover, it setups a framework for the TIC evaluation in companies. With works on the innovation process and innovation success and failure experiences, it highlights the importance of network for the achievement of technological...
University Technology Business Incubation (UTBI) is a program developed for an entrepreneurial company by providing a variety of resources and services to a selected start-up or entrepreneurial groups in early-stage technology-related ventures. To promote the success of UTBI program, it is important for management team to understand the necessary resources required by the program. The purpose of this...
This study aimed to discuss the relationship between innovative concepts of training quality and organizational commitment for Taiwan's industry management. Questionnaire survey was conducted on manufacturers in Taiwan that participated in the project of the Vocational Training Council. A total of 1000 questionnaires were distributed to directors, general employees, and human resource personnel in...
Dynamic changes and variations play a decisive role in innovation processes. By addressing the aspect of cycles that is reoccurring temporal or structural patterns within development processes as well as in their context, this research contributes to an enhanced understanding of complex dynamic interdependencies. Therefore, two development projects are analyzed and a series of interviews with industry...
The paper presents findings of a study of entrepreneurial start-up organisations in the ICT sector. The start-up organisations were co-located in a new business incubator managed by a university in the north-west of England. The study was aimed at understanding the factors and approaches that impacted the ability of the start-ups to manage customer development and, consequently, generate revenue....
Nowadays, innovations of technologies, products, and services occur interdependently. Moreover, the innovations are developed by various actors, not by a company alone. Due to the complexity of innovation ecosystem, companies have difficulties in managing and monitoring its complex and interdependent innovation ecosystem. In this manner, this paper suggests a comprehensive network named as “T-P-S...
This paper analyzes the effects of the service innovation and customer relationship management on the international roaming inbound business performance. One dependent variable is the total revenues from roaming generated by its top 69 roaming partners. The independent variables are including the average revenue per user of roaming partners' customers, the network specification level of roaming partners,...
Latecomer firms how to build the different interfirm network to match the different niche strategies to achieve better innovational performance is one of increasing concern topics both in practice and academics. The paper divides the niche into product niche and process niche, divides the technological innovation into product innovation and process innovation according to different competition positioning,...
Based on theoretical analyses of relationship of open innovation, disruptive innovation and competence building, this paper attempts to propose a conceptual framework for strategic making of Chinese companies to improve their competence and competitiveness combining open innovation and disruptive innovation. The growth of a company, R&V is taken as a case to illustrate this argument. Theoretical...
We propose a measure to estimate the novelty of component combinations included in technologies. We used the International Patent Classification (IPC) included in patent publications as proxies of technology components. We analyzed the inventions related to photocatalysts of granted and rejected patent applications filed with the Japan Patent Office. We calculated the novelty of component combinations...
Identifying key NSD success factors has long been a hot NSD research topic. However, NSD success factor studies are more descriptive than instructional. From a managerial perspective, we conclude that most NSD success factors identified so far actually relate to four management processes: NSD strategy management, NSD process management, NSD knowledge management, and customer involvement.
Based on empirical analysis of 44 listed automobile Enterprises of China, this paper established evaluation index of technology innovation capability and employed principal component analysis to get the evaluation value of technology innovation capability, then proposed relational regression model of enterprise scale and innovation to analyze their linear relationship. Finally, this paper made some...
This paper constructs the quantitative identified model of the software firm's life cycle stage based on the four-scale,and has the method of fuzzy mathematics as the study tool, has human capital,market share,revenue growth and technological innovation as four main research indices. First of all,it analyses the characteristics of these elements and builds their subjection degree based on four-scale...
The discipline of mineral processing engineering (DMPE) of China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) is a Chinese national key discipline. For years it taking the technology of processing and utilization of coal resource and clean coal technology as its characteristics, and it has formed a passel of world advanced research achievement and became an important base for the education and scientific...
Two industrial challenges of uncertainty and interoperability arose as the new forms of industries structure have emerged. Network theories are systematically reviewed in three streams of network structure, network strategy and network evolution in order to find out the current theories' contribution on those two challenging issues, which include supply chain management (SCM), business network (BN),...
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