Innovation In Today Research Articles

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Considering today's competitive conditions, innovation and innovative business behaviour are clearly known to everyone about how important it is for businesses. Any business that wishes to sustain its existence must adapt to change and produce new products or services. It is in love that no business that resists change will have long lasting life. Considering this situation, the subject of our research has been established. It has been wondered whether resistance to change has an impact on innovative business behaviour. First, the field was scanned for concepts and then reinforced with empirical work. The study was applied to 326 employees in large-scale enterprises engaged in production in Konya Industrial Zone. According to the results of the analysis of the data obtained, our main hypothesis has been verified. A negative directional relationship was found between the two concepts.

A Strategic Roadmap for Maximizing Big Data Return

Big Data has turned out to be one of the popular expressions in IT the last couple of years. In the current digital period, according to the huge improvement occurring in the web and online world innovations, we are facing a gigantic volume of information. The size of data has expanded significantly with the appearance of today's innovation in numerous segments, for example, assembling, business, and science. Types of information have been changed from structured data-driven databases to data including documents, images, audio, video, and social media contents referred to as unstructured data or Big Data. Consequently, most of the organizations try to invest in the big data technology aiming to get value from their investment. However, the organizations face a challenge to determine their requirements and then the technology that suits their businesses. Different technologies are provided by variety of vendors, each of them can be used, and there is no methodology helping them for choosing and making a right decision. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to construct a roadmap for helping the organizations determine their needs and selecting a suitable technology and applying this conducted proposed roadmap practically on two companies.

Innovation, Programmable Media and the Human Computer Interface

In this article, the author examines fundamental principles or characteristics (e.g., programmability, modularity, variability) of digital media that make much of today's digital innovations possible. These precepts offer context for understanding the rapid and pervasive innovation currently taking place in society and, more specifically, how this innovation impacts trends in human computer interfaces. A focus of the article will be news-orientated interfaces. This article contrasts traditional informational sources such as newspapers and television news with digital interfaces. Finally, this article makes several observations regarding technology innovation that have bearing on the interaction experience of news consumers. This article categorized these observations broadly as rapid innovation, interaction, social interaction, scale, convergence, and Internet of Things and data.

Do‐it‐yourself Digital: the Production Boundary, the Productivity Puzzle and Economic Welfare

Part of the debate about the ‘productivity puzzle’ concerns potential mismeasurement of GDP due to digital activities. This paper discusses some measurement issues arising from digitally‐enabled substitutions in activity across the conventional production boundary. Production boundary issues are not new, as conventionally defined GDP statistics account for the monetary cost but not the time cost of consumption and production. This means that changes in the way in which time is allocated between market and home production affect measured growth and productivity, as well as economic welfare. Just as technological innovation in domestic appliances led to a substitution from home production into market consumption in the second half of the 20th century, today's digital innovations are driving some reverse substitution out of the market into home production. Statistical agencies do not currently collect the data needed to measure the scale of the switch, but the available evidence suggests that it may be enough to make a contribution to understanding the current productivity puzzle.

A century old and still visionary: Fayol's innovative theory of management

Based on historical data and a seminal text never translated into English, we present an original interpretation of Henri Fayol's (1841–1925) administrative theory. This interpretation, which is consistent with the comments that Fayol later presented about his ‘General and industrial administration’ treatise, brings out his pioneering contribution to management studies. Fayol made the ‘unknown’ introduced by science into industry the central tenet of modern administration. He foreshadowed major aspects of today's innovation management. More fundamentally, Fayol laid new foundations for the field of management sciences. He drew from the political and philosophical works of the Enlightenment to develop a series of original concepts (in French: prévoyance, perfectionnement, programme, inconnu, corps social) that were difficult to interpret and to translate. We maintain that Fayol's administrative science is a theory of a ‘creative/political’ rationality that still, today, offers better theoretical and explanatory support for management science than economic and bureaucratic theory.

Advancing the strategic impact of human-centred design

Many organisations realise that becoming more human-centred is key to dealing with today's innovation challenges. Human-centred design (HCD) has potential to contribute to this goal. However, its current impact on strategic innovation is limited. In this paper we describe the evolution of HCD methods to date, and the challenges and opportunities of applying HCD in strategic innovation. We show that these challenges could be addressed by augmenting HCD with methods from the field of design innovation. To do this, we propose the NADI-model that links these two worlds by considering the different layers of practices and knowledge they contain, and show how the deepest level of this model can bridge human-centred design and strategic innovation.

Gail E. Latimer, MSN, RN, FACHE, FAAN

Gail E. Latimer, MSN, RN, FACHE, FAAN

The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation Performance: Evidence from Construction Industry of Azerbaijan

Institute of Economics of theAzerbaijan National Academy ofSciences,Institute of Economics of theAzerbaijan National Academy ofSciences,Azerbaijan State University ofEconomics,Ibrahim Chechen University,Turkey,IntroductionIn today's world, innovations and successful decision-making in entrepreneurial activities are among the most important components of successful long-term oriented organizational behavior. In addition, innovation is an important driver of long-term national economic growth and an important policy goal (Romer, 1990; Schumpeter, 1962).As the twice Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling stated: best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of According to him, the success of creativity depends a lot on having various ideas. Most of studies on diversity emphasize that different ideas play a significant role in change making and this is the key factor for knowledge accumulation.According to Berliant and Fujita (2012), ideas in general help us to communicate, while exclusive ideas help us bring in originality to collaborative work.Today, when non-rivalrous knowledge (Romer, 1993) is widespread and easy to be accessed as never before, it is a challenging task for firms to transform potentially new knowledge into productivity growth. In order to understand the effect of these pervasive phenomena, we consider only within-firm diversity. We are of the opinion that despite limited information availability, people are still the main factor, which influences how information is circulated, and ideas understood, interpreted and used.There is a number of works on the growing importance of cultural diversity for innovation (e.g. 0stergaard et al., 2011; Ozgen et al., 2011; Pozzoli et al., 2012; Kemeny, 2012; Nathan & Lee, 2012). In our research when we use culture, we refer to national characteristics and not to corporate culture.The results of our research can be useful for managers in the process of making decisions on the selection and implementation of the strategies related to employees and creating suitable environment for them. Also our findings will help better understand the process of innovation, understand the factors, which can influence innovation activity and help to know how these mechanisms work under conditions of diversity inside a firm.The remainder of this article is structured as follows. Section 1 reviews the existing literature on the components of cultural diversity: racial, gender, foreigners' diversity and its relationship with innovation performance. Section 2 discusses the methodology, as well as the data used to test the hypotheses. Section 3 contains the empirical results, followed by a short summary and conclusions.1. Literature review1.1.Cultural diversity and innovationWe have identified from reviewed literature that there is a range of works, which found the positive and negative impacts of cultural diversity on innovation and firm performance. The overall impact remains an open question, especially regarding to impact on innovativeness of the firm. There are studies which found an inverted U-shape relationship between diversity and economic performance (see e.g. de Graaff and Nijkamp, 2010), meaning that there is an optimal diversity. Can the same effect be true regarding to the relationship between cultural diversity and innovation? Results of a literature review show that, a wide range of models, which used random effects find that there is a significantly positive impact of diversity rather than curvilinear relationship. The effect is even higher when migrants are skilled and when the sector is knowledge-intensive.Blau (1977) had an idea that firms with different levels of cultural diversity in the end have different levels of development and organizational outcomes. There are some views, which argue that low diversity is beneficial for members of groups. …

Development of Emotional Effects on Entrepreneurial Personality and Innovation

In today's competitive world, entrepreneurial personality and innovation are considered as key factors to success and survival for organizations. So far, the literature has recognized various items that affect entrepreneurial personality and innovation in organizations. The study analyzes how emotional intelligence dimensions predict entrepreneurial personality and innovation. In terms of objective, this study is considered as an empirical one, and the research methodology is descriptive type. The population includes 265 managers and professional experts working in Kalleh Company from Iran. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The Results of study showed each of the emotional intelligence dimensions revealed that except use of Emotion; all of them enhanced innovation and entrepreneurial personality in Kalleh Company. The current research also provides more suggestion for future studies that could consider consequences of entrepreneurial personality and Innovation in their career.

The Role of District and School Leaders’ Trust and Communications in the Simultaneous Implementation of Innovative Policies

This mixed-method multiple case study investigated nine elementary schools. Six “odds-beating schools,” which serve relatively high numbers of economically disadvantaged children, achieved higher than predicted performance on state assessments when compared with three typically performing schools. The overarching research question guiding this study was: What forces, factors, and actors account for odds-beating schools’ better outcomes? The trust–communication connection provided one answer. Relational trust in odds-beating schools is an intraorganizational phenomenon, and it is accompanied by interorganizational trust (reciprocal trust). These two kinds of trust are accompanied by intraschool and district office–school communication mechanisms. Trust and communications are mutually constitutive as innovations are implemented. This connection is also an implementation outcome. When today's innovation implementation initiatives reinforce this trust–communication connection, it becomes an organizational resource for future innovation implementation.

Out-in, in-out buyer quality innovation pathways for new product outcome: Empirical evidence from the Chinese consumer goods industry

In today's dynamic environment, quality innovation and new product development (NPD) are the key factors in gaining competitive advantage. However, the quality innovation process is a complex procedure, because it may combine internal and external resource requirements to meet customer expectations. This paper reviews two quality innovation pathways and their respective NPD performances based on the joint supplier-buyer relationship within the fast consumer goods (FCGs) industry. Specifically, we study buyers’ quality innovation potential using ‘out-in,’ which is the identification of quality innovative suppliers, and ‘in-out,’ which is buyers’ quality knowledge transfer ability to suppliers. Our dyadic data from both buyers and suppliers reveal that the supplier's innovation ability and passion is the dominating factor, irrespective of quality innovation pathways, in the context of the Chinese consumer goods industry. However, cooperative attitude and the cost reduction ability of suppliers are the differentiating factors.

Technology and Management Innovation of the Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was built in 1937 and is nearly eighty years old. It made many breakthroughs in its building and operation management, which opened up a new chapter of engineering innovation. However, initially, it was thought to be a "mission impossible" . In addition to the technical barriers including complex terrain conditions and longer span, some management barriers such as money and time limit for a project blocked its success. How did it break through the technical barriers and management barriers and realized technology and management innovation? This paper explores the background of the bridge’s planning, construction and operation, tries to solve the question of how the innovations were made, and finds out its inspirational significance for today's engineering innovation. Eventually the paper finds that public participation, scientific management and integration innovation played an important role in its success, and how it overcame barriers to reach innovation is worth learning.

Understanding the modes of use and availability of critical metals – An expert-based scenario analysis for the case of indium

Natural resources are an essential pillar of today's economic and technological innovation. Growing demand, in particular for certain metals relevant for emerging technologies such as low-carbon energy production, has recently led to supply concerns especially in resource-importing high-tech countries in Europe and North America. Current approaches for facing the challenges linked to supply security and general modes of use and re-use often focus on either technological innovation or on the development of relevant governance interventions, but lack a common pursuance of objectives. We used an expert-based formative scenario analysis to examine the role these approaches play in the case of indium, and how they interrelate. We identified four exemplary scenarios that reflect how indium use may be influenced in different ways: (i) an extrapolation of today's trends (business as usual); (ii) a focus on the recycling phase; (iii) a governance system with stringent governmental regulations; and (iv) a governance system with well-balanced power structures and cooperation. We then analyzed these system scenarios in terms of their plausibility when assuming different surrounding conditions (shell scenarios) to determine their overall robustness. The evaluation of the scenarios showed that measures should be taken to optimize life-cycle interfaces, including both primary and secondary production. We show that the state is a vital actor within the system of resource production and consumption, but has a limited operating range on an international scale. It must therefore provide the appropriate conditions to allow the evolution of private industry initiatives, which then can also contribute to the system's robustness. As a result, strategies targeting sustainable resource use could be the appropriate instrument to formulate a common objective and to more effectively coordinate such approaches for fostering sustainable indium use.

Talent wants to be free: why we should learn to love leaks, raids, and free riding

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems. In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control mentality--relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free.

Raising-consciousness art in post-apartheid South Africa: An exploration of selected “subversive” texts by young South African spoken word artists and songwriters

In his 2001 Biko Memorial Lecture, Zakes Mda defines “raising-consciousness poetry” as a self-empowering poetry performed by young South African spoken word artists, young “conscientized” poets who (often) operate at the margins of the mainstream industries of culture. Mda calls these young artists the “children of Biko”, thus identifying the members of this fluid community as today's heirs and innovators of the Black Consciousness leader's unforgotten tradition. This paper critically analyses selected musical and poetic texts written by four representative young performing poets and songwriters of South Africa, and suggests that their works are re-invigorating the arts scene by infusing it with the ethos of self-empowerment that stands at the very core of Biko's philosophy of liberation.

Государственная финансовая поддержка инноваций за рубежом

In today's world innovation plays a key role in securing a country’s economic and technological leadership. It encourages governments to increase investment in innovative areas and look for ways to improve the efficiency of science and innovation funding in order to increase the economic benefits of R&D budget allocation. Despite vast differences of measures used by countries to promote innovative activity, it is possible to identify some common approaches to restructuring the budget support mechanisms for science and business innovation, which have been applied in recent years by a growing number of states. One of the most important trends, which has achieved global scale, is to expand the practice of project finance for fundamental and applied research while reducing the share of the traditional budgeted funding of research institutions and universities. In many countries, the transition to the project-oriented support of R&D stimulated institutional restructuring of the public science funding system, with a marked increase of the importance of authorized government agencies (foundations, research councils, etc.) involved in the assessment, selection and allocation of grants for scientific projects and programs. In a number of states, increased role of tax incentive tools for corporate R&D, larger financing of small and medium-sized high-tech enterprises and broader public procurement of domestic innovative products are among the main reform areas of state support to corporate innovation. According to the authors, despite the growing popularity of these approaches on a global scale, it would be wrong to speak of them as cure-all solutions suitable for all countries to enhance efficiency of state innovation. First of all, the experience accumulated by countries implement appropriate varies seriously and is not positive everywhere. Besides, the ongoing profound differences in the organization of innovative systems in certain countries make it difficult to use even those foreign developments in management science that have proven their productivity, requiring serious adaptation and adjustment to the specifics of national economies, and scientific and technological environment.

Disruptive Change

The new vision of today's research innovators

Wild West Innovation

see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who You dig. Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the UglyThe Western movie has been a part of American culture for over a century, almost since the invention of the movie projector. Such an established form of entertainment would seem to be outside the need for business innovation. But it is precisely because the genre is so well trodden that innovation has always been an essential ingredient, producing new plots and new leading that keep the genre fresh.The plot and hero of the western movie have been in constant evolution, with a number of very clear disruptors that shifted the entire genre, punctuating decades of incremental change. Just as the hero of many a Western film rode into town and overturned the established power brokers, new actors regularly rode into Hollywood and changed the established hierarchy of the Western movie business. These changes on the screen and on the back lot are characteristic of the disruption that inno vation cowboys like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have had on established markets. And today's innovators can take some important lessons from these silver screen disruptors.Western InnovationWorld famous innovator Thomas Edison is widely known as the creator of many of the technologies that led to the motion picture projector, but few know that he also owned the Edison Manufacturing Company, which produced and distributed movies to create commercial demand for the projector. His company created 1,200 films, beginning with short clips and moving on to full-length movies. Some of its earliest hit titles were The Life of an American Cowboy (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903), two of the first Western movies ever made ( Matthews 1984 ). In the years that followed, producers and actors created various images of the cowboy hero to appeal to the general public, making cultural icons of men like Bronco Billy Anderson, the star of the The Great Train Robbery, who appeared in 466 short films between 1902 and 1922, and Bill Hart, who brought a range-rough image that included shooting up the bad guys and hard drinking to 74 films from 1907 to 1925. Both of these stars were created from the rough clay of their own personalities and their own ideas about what a cowboy was and did. With more than 500 movies carrying their images to the American public, they created the Hollywood version of this American hero.But this image has never been set in stone, secure against change. Rather, the cowboy image has been open to regular re-creation, innovation, and disruption. New actors brought new styles to the screen, unseating reigning stars and redefining the Western. Hart's rough-clothed cowboy just offthe range was unseated by the newcomer Tom Mix, a clean-shaven, fancy-dressed cowboy who preferred to rope the bad guys rather than shoot them dead. Mix created the dandy cowboy, a wellgroomed, clean-living hero who looked good on the screen but was a far reach from Hart's range cowboy.Mix ' s career was in its latter years when a notable extra appeared on the set of The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)-a football player from the University of Southern California who looked and acted the part of a strong onscreen cowboy. John Ford, the director of the film, invited Marion Morrison, or Duke, as he was known to friends, to appear in several movies and eventually cast him as the lead in The Big Trail (1930) under his new Hollywood name, John Wayne. Wayne did not wear fancy rhinestone suits, polished silver, or spotless chaps. His image was reminiscent of Bill Hart's rough range cowboy but without the violent vices. This update of the roughand-ready cowboy became the face of the Western for the next 30 years.But there was room for more than one type of cowboy on the silver screen. The 1940s saw the introduction of an innovative new idea in Western entertainment: the singing cowboy. …

Service Value Co-creation in Research & Innovation Practices in Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia

Abstract In today's knowledge-based society, research and innovations play a critical role in social and economic transformation. However, the higher education institutions (HEIs), which are the main hubs for knowledge generation, usually produce basic research, yet innovations are mainly carried out by the industry. Therefore, this study explores the idea of value co-creation between HEIs and the Industry for purposes of increasing the volume and value of research. In this paper we propose a conceptual framework for service systems’ architecture which draws from the service dominant logic and work systems theories. The paper is conceptual however, it is hoped that if implemented can provide the participating entities with a platform to integrate and share resources for each ones benefit.

The pharmaceutical technology landscape: A new form of technology roadmapping

Practitioners are finding it increasingly difficult to develop effective roadmapping efforts for many new products and innovations. We argue that this difficulty stems from the fundamental differences between many of today's innovations and earlier ones. Many current innovations are: using technology differently; more heavily constrained; forcing new business models and increasingly being shaped by drivers. Current roadmapping techniques do not translate well to this new reality. Roadmapping efforts for these innovations are increasingly failing to meet their primary goal of including technology into the strategic process of firms, regions or industries.We seek to address this concern by creating a new roadmapping technique, one we name Technology Landscaping. We build this technique by basing it upon the relevant sections and structures found in first and second generation roadmapping theories and practices. We then apply new theory and processes that are in alignment with the nature of these new products and innovations. We test our model through a case study of new pharmaceutical industry innovations. Finally, we present our new roadmapping technique.