http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/ Latest Articles Web Feed from Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3148 Since 1981 (excluding one year of unavailability), the US Research & Experimentation (R&E) tax credit has been available as an incentive to corporate managers interested in increasing their annual investment in applied research. Research indicates that the R&E tax credit has an overall negligible effect on increasing annual industry 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3149 Open source software (OSS) is a rapidly growing method of collaborative technology development. Yet there has been little quantitative research into the specific innovativeness of the OSS industry that seeks to address the question of whether such collaborative processes are also correlated with increased innovative activity. Using survey data from Korean O 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3160 Delivering technology projects on time with a specified budget and resources has emerged as a strategic imperative in the highly competitive business world. One of the project challenges is increasingly tied to diffusion (spread) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation. This paper presents an empirical study that examines how ICT innova 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3151 The existing literature on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) predominantly focuses on their role as innovation agents in innovation systems, with limited attention to innovation of KIBS firms in its own right. Using a sample of 181 KIBS firms in Singapore, this paper examines the key determinants of innovation behavior of KIBS firms. We find that 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3159 This article presents results from 23 structured interviews focused on creative meetings (a crucial part of the definition being that something new is created in the meeting, through interaction between people). The interviewees represented many different fields of industry and academia, and together many hundred years of experience of meetings. Six main pe 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3154 Manufacturing SMEs remain an underdeveloped area of interest in the literature on innovation. SMEs whose principal skill sets are mechanical in nature (MechSMEs) and that serve multiple customer groups offer a particularly rich context for the study of innovation practices that are mostly under the control of the firm's managers. This empirically-based pape 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3156 Adopting a Schumpeterian perspective, this article reports a survey on contemporary innovation literature from the 1950s to the present. By sorting innovation research into three main schools - the capability school, the corporate entrepreneurship school, and the cultural school - this article discusses the nature of innovation, the inherent logic of innova 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/3/article/3204 This research uses the dynamic capabilities (DC) framework to analyze innovation efforts in the auto industry to understand the linkages between sourcing relationships and innovation. The DC framework provides a look at several capabilities within the relationships that facilitate innovation processes such as robust bi-directional information flows and learn 2009-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/2/article/2951 2009-08-01 00:00:00 http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/11/issue/2/article/2952 China has made tremendous progress in building its science and technology capabilities. But to achieve its ambitions to become an innovation-oriented nation, the country has to challenge itself by establishing an enterprise-centered national innovation system, better spending the increasing sums of money on innovation, improving its intellectual property ri 2009-08-01 00:00:00