Collaborative Social and Technical Innovation

Abstract The international literature is paying significant and increasing attention to the analysis of the regions’ innovation potential, and its active contribution to economic growth and competitiveness. Beside the classical, technical innovation, also the social innovation is getting even more emphasis. It can solve as alternative basically in the case of the peripheral territories. The convergence of peripheries is a stressed priority in the European Union. The territorial disparities are resulting in significant social and political problems also in the case of the Visegrad countries’ regions. The authors in their research represent a possible method for the measurement of regional (NUTS-2) level social innovation potential on the example of the Visegrad countries, and they also analyse the causes and consequences of disparities. The applied complex social innovation index can be calculated as a result of three pillars (economic, social, culture and attitude), and several components. As a result of the created patterns can be concluded that compared to the economic indicators, the disadvantage of the peripheries is not so significant in the case of the social innovation index, because of the complex character of the index. In the second part of the research, the authors analyse and evaluate also the methods, which can be adequate for increasing the social innovation potential.

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Restoration and re-creation in the Eastern Han

10.1093/oso/9780198733119.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher Cullen

Keyword(s):

Han Dynasty ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Early Years ◽

Technical Innovation ◽

Astronomical Observation ◽

Fundamental Innovation ◽

The Creation ◽

Zhang Heng ◽

Eastern Han ◽

New System

We look first at the situation in the early years of the restored Han dynasty. Liu Xin’s system continued in use for more than half a century. Then, in 85 CE, Liu Xin’s system was replaced. We have records of the practical and theoretical grounds on which the old system was rejected, and of the creation and implementation of a new system. Next we follow the story of how c. 92 CE Jia Kui advocated a fundamental innovation in both theory and practice: he insisted on the ecliptic as being central to astronomical observation and calculation. The richness of records from this period makes it easy to tell a detailed story of technical innovation in its fullest context, leading up to the work of Zhang Heng (78–139 CE), for whom astronomical calculation was just one of several fields in which he gained a reputation for exceptional originality.

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A Problem in the Making: How Firms Formulate Sharable Problems for Open Innovation Contests

10.1093/oso/9780198816225.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martin W. Wallin ◽

Georg von Krogh ◽

Jan Henrik Sieg

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Creation ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Problem Formulation ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Monetary Reward ◽

Technical Innovation ◽

Prior Work ◽

Exploratory Case Study ◽

External Sources

Crowdsourcing in the form of innovation contests stimulates knowledge creation external to the firm by distributing technical, innovation-related problems to external solvers and by proposing a fixed monetary reward for solutions. While prior work demonstrates that innovation contests can generate solutions of value to the firm, little is known about how problems are formulated for such contests. We investigate problem formulation in a multiple exploratory case study of seven firms and inductively develop a theoretical framework that explains the mechanisms of formulating sharable problems for innovation contests. The chapter contributes to the literatures on crowdsourcing and open innovation by providing a rare account of the intra-organizational implications of engaging in innovation contests and by providing initial clues to problem formulation—a critical antecedent to firms’ ability to leverage external sources of innovation.

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The Opera-Telephone in Munich

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.17 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sonja Neumann

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Technical Innovation ◽

Reciprocal Relation ◽

Special Means ◽

Private And Public ◽

Listening Experience ◽

Visual Element ◽

The Impact ◽

Technical Products

Through a cultural-historical analysis, the chapter portrays the Opera-Telephone in Munich as a special means of listening and explores its technical, social, economic, and psychological aspects. These aspects strongly reflect the reciprocal relation of technical innovation and listening to music, for example, by emphasizing the meaning of live broadcasting for listening habits and by highlighting the impact of headphone use on aural perception. The latter practice enables the transfer of the multidimensional opera event into a pure listening experience as the visual element is eliminated. The Opera-Telephone also serves to illustrate matters of social status in regard to private and public listening. In this way, opera was incorporated into the marketing of modern technical products.

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