The Impact of Institutions, Imprinting, and Identity on the Immigration and Innovation Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 373-395
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
The Impact

Innovation Failure: Losing Sight of the Big Picture

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Fortoul Obermöller
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Passenger Car ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

The Case Study section of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation serves two purposes. First, the case studies presented are concerned with problematical issues that are pertinent to students of entrepreneurship. Thus they constitute appropriate teaching and learning vehicles on a variety of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. Each case study is accompanied by a set of guidelines for the use of tutors. Second, it is envisaged that those engaged in entrepreneurial activities will find the cases both interesting and useful. The case of PSA Peugeot Citroën's electric passenger car is an example of an innovation perceived as a failure because of its disappointing sales volume. Yet, by limiting our assessment of the electric passenger car to a short-term perspective, we may miss out on an essential part of its value. As part of a wider innovation process, the electric passenger car project is a significant step for PSA in its expertise regarding electric vehicles. Key learning outcomes: (a) to understand that innovation is a complex process with fuzzy frontiers, both in time and space; (b) to understand that innovation is a long-term investment with spillovers into other projects; (c) to be aware of the multiple perspectives that may be adopted when examining innovation; and (d) to be aware of the impact of labelling a project a failure.

scholarly journals The impact of innovations on the efficiency of animal husbandry in Lviv region

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (97) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
K. Hirniak
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Livestock Industry ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Method Of Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

Domestic agricultural enterprises do not have a high level of innovation activity, however, stable and competitive operation of an agricultural enterprise is impossible without its innovative activity. Stabilization of the situation in the agricultural sector with the current level of competition and constant technological variables, the innovative vector of development is the driving component of economic growth. Activation of innovation of domestic agricultural enterprises is one of the important prerequisites for stability and sustainable socio-economic development of the country. Consequently, the effective functioning of the livestock industry is possible only under the conditions of systemic and purposeful innovation aimed at finding a variety of new opportunities provided by the business environment. The innovation process in domestic animal husbandry is clearly aimed at the end result - a certain socio-economic, technical or environmental effects. The efficiency of animal husbandry is determined after the introduction of innovation, calculated by the method of evaluation of investment projects. On the example of Lviv region we analyzed the conditions of innovative activity in animal husbandry, assessed the modern innovative potential of the industry, established the features of its innovation and investment activities. SWOT-analysis is an important component of assessing the position of livestock enterprises in the region. It should be recognized that the innovative activity of livestock enterprises is mainly associated with the final stage of the innovation process – the development of innovations. In 2020, farms of all categories of Lviv region compared to 2019 decreased meat production (sales for slaughter of farm animals in live weight) by 1.6 %, milk – by 4.7 %, eggs – by 0.3 %. cattle on farms of all categories on January 1, 2021 amounted to 144.4 thousand heads (including cows – 86.2 thousand heads), pigs – 346.1 thousand heads, poultry – 10.5 million. heads. Compared to January 1, 2020, the number of poultry increased by 5.7 %, pigs – by 4.1 %, the number of cattle decreased by 8.2 % (including cows – by 8.6 %). Innovative activity of the livestock industry is formed under the influence of the domestic innovation system and has its own specifics, which is caused by the peculiarities of agriculture. Most innovative projects are aimed at introducing innovations that contribute to the intensification of animal husbandry and increase the competitiveness of products. Thus, on the basis of innovative development of animal husbandry it is possible to achieve a significant increase in the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises, which will allow Ukrainian producers to achieve significant results in world markets for agricultural products.

Social media as tool for facilitating knowledge creation and innovation in small and medium enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Papa ◽  
Gabriele Santoro ◽  
Lia Tirabeni ◽  
Filippo Monge
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of social media usage on four knowledge creation processes, namely socialisation, externalisation, combination and internalisation, and innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A sample of 96 SMEs has been used to gather data through a standardised questionnaire and test the hypotheses through OLS regression models. Findings The results indicate that social media influence positively three out of four knowledge creation processes and that they help to foster the innovation process. Originality/value From a theoretical perspective, the study contributes to literature considering a specific digital tool and its effect on knowledge creation and innovation. In fact, a few studies have considered the impact of social media usage on other variables, such as ROI and productivity, but never on knowledge creation and innovation through a quantitative study. From a managerial perspective, the research suggests managers to implement and involve social media within business and innovation processes.

Enhanced Innovation Process as a Key Driver of Bakery Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-238
Author(s):  
Kafigi Jeje ◽  
Vannie Naidoo ◽  
Rahul Verma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Output Level ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Professional Behaviour ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the food sector play a pivotal role in contributing to the developing county's economy. In order to improve a small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), one key driver is innovation, and for innovation initiatives to grow and succeed, they depend largely on the leadership and the innovation capabilities of the firm. This chapter will shed more light on the impact of the enhanced innovation process on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) bakeries. A qualitative study was conducted on 186 registered bakery owners/managers of bakeries. The results indicated that the relationship between enhanced innovation process and output level in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) bakeries are significant. It has been revealed that the workforce's professional behaviour, the acquired competency through training, and the rewarding systems moderate the relationship between enhanced innovation process and output level in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) bakeries.

scholarly journals Examining innovation as process: Action research in journalism studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Wagemans ◽  
Tamara Witschge
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Action Project ◽  
Experiential Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Processes

In this article, we discuss how ‘action research’ as an experiential research approach allows us to address challenges encountered in researching a converged and digital media landscape. We draw on our experiences as researchers, co-developers and marketeers in the European Union-funded Innovation Action project ‘INnovative Journalism: Enhanced Creativity Tools’ (INJECT) aimed at developing a technological tool for journalism. In this media innovation process, as in other media practices, longstanding delineations no longer hold, due to converging professional disciplines and blurring roles of users and producers. First, we discuss four features of innovation in the current ‘digital’ media landscape that come with specific methodological requirements: (a) the iterative nature of innovation; (b) converged practices, professions and roles; (c) the dispersed geographic nature of media production and innovation processes and (d) the impact of human and non-human actors. We suggest action research as a possible answer to these requirements of the digital media landscape. Drawing on our experiences in the INJECT project, we illustrate how adopting an action research approach provides insight into the non-linear, iterative and converged character of innovation processes by highlighting: (a) how innovation happens at various moments, in various places and by various people; (b) how perceptions and enactments of professions change over time and (c) how roles are (re)combined and expanded in such a way that clear delineation is not easy. Ultimately, we argue that experiencing convergence through action research enables us to do justice to the complexity of the current media landscape.

Free/Libre Open Source Software for Bridging the Digital Divide

2009 ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Yu-Wei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Approaches To Study ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
System Designs

As some scholars claim, the digital divide, referring to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not, entails that not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap (Compaine, 2001). In software design, structured inequalities operate along the main axes of gender, race/ethnicity and class. Each of these in turn generates its own structure of unequal practices giving rise to institutionalised sexism, racism or class divisions/conflict. “Gender, race and class also crosscut each other in various complex ways, sometimes reinforcing and at other times weakening the impact of existing inequalities” (Cohen & Kennedy, 2000, p. 100). For instance, Webster’s research (1996) employing feminist approaches to study computer system designs addresses the issue of a male-dominated system design field, which continuously excludes female users’ needs, requirements, interests and values in the innovation process. She criticises that, “Human factors may be bolted onto existing methods of systems design, local and contingent knowledge of work and information handling processes held by users in an amorphous sense may now even be incorporated into the systems design process, but this does not create an awareness of the way in which skills and knowledge are defined in gender-divided terms” (p. 150).

THE IMPACT OF MARKETING’S INNOVATION-RELATED CAPABILITIES ON A FIRM’S INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 2050054
Author(s):  
OSMAN GÖK ◽  
SINEM PEKER
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Marketing Capabilities ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Marketing Department ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Impact

Innovation performance is a potential source of competitive advantage for any firm. A capable marketing department (MD) can contribute significantly to the market success of the new products and services offered. Therefore, understanding the impact of marketing’s innovation-related capabilities in the innovation process is an important area of inquiry to achieve a more innovative and competitive company. This study examines the relations among relevant MD capabilities, marketing’s decision influence on innovation development and a firm’s innovation performance. The results indicate that the capabilities of the MD are strongly associated with the firm’s innovation performance. Our findings also demonstrate that marketing capabilities have a positive relationship with the department’s influence on innovation development. However, the department’s influence on innovation decisions has no effect on the firm’s innovation performance. We proposed a moderated mediation model considering a set of firm-level and environmental contingency variables. Results reveal that the proposed model relationships are indifferent for all the sub-groups of moderators.

scholarly journals The Gender Effect on a Firm’s Innovative Activities in the Emerging Economies

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyunga Na ◽  
Kwangsoo Shin
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Marketing Innovation ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Ownership

This study examines the impact of gender at three different positions in a firm’s hierarchy on innovative activities, looking at over 6474 firms in 30 emerging countries. We create a dummy variable for each of the six survey questions on product innovation, process innovation, organizational innovation, marketing innovation, and R&D (Research & Development) spending. Each dummy acts as a dependent variable in a separate logit regression, and the sum of the dummies acts as the dependent variable in another ordered logit regression. We use the female ownership percentage, female top management, and female majority in the workforce as test variables. We use the Heckman two-stage model to address endogeneity concerns with gender. We find that the female ownership percentage is generally positively related to individual innovation measures as well as the composite measure, while female top management is positively associated with marketing innovation only, and a female majority in the workforce is not significantly related to any measure. The results suggest that promoting innovation in emerging countries would involve governments encouraging further market participation by women and supporting female CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) to innovate, and firms fostering innovation among female workers.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INNOVATION: A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT APPROACH

2004 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 261-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
EL-SAYED ABOU-ZEID ◽  
QIANZHEN CHENG
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Cognitive Fit ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Cognitive Fit Theory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

With the emergence of knowledge management (KM) as a new discipline for studying what needs to be done in order to get the most out of organizational knowledge resources, linking knowledge management and innovation becomes a necessity. Nevertheless, there are few studies that address the relationship between KM and innovation. While the thing- and process-oriented approaches adopted in these studies are helpful in understanding the relationship between knowledge management concepts and innovation concepts, they have failed to account for the impact of this relationship on the effectiveness of the innovation process. In order to study this impact, cognitive fit theory is used to develop a model that describes how the compatibility between knowledge manipulating activities and the type of knowledge associated with innovation will affect the success of the innovation process.

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