37) Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers
It explores the rhetorical nature of the phenomena commonly labeled technology transfers & in the process uncovers some of the rhetorical barriers to successful technology transfers. At the same time, it attempts to declare the myth of knowledge transfer by arguing that processes typically called information transfer and technology transfer are not transfers at all but instead series of personal constructions & reconstructions of knowledge, expertise, and technologies by the participants attempting to adopt technological innovations for social uses.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=5346
38) From Problems to Ideas through to Innovation
Innovation in itself is of little practical value to an organisation. Existing approaches tend only to scratch the surface of the possible ways of optimising an organisation’s approach to its issues. Through the use of dynamic team events and “crowd surfing”, backed up with the capability for individuals and groups to continue working on how business process issues can be effectively addressed, a balanced approach combining process renovation, optimisation and innovation can be created.
http://www.innovationtools.com/PDF/idea-mgmt-and-culture.pdf
39) Unleashing India’s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
The collaborative process underlying its preparation are to develop concrete actions that strengthen India’s innovation environment, enhance productivity growth, and reduce poverty. Because innovation is a broad topic, this volume covers a vast array of areas ranging from India’s broader economic and institutional regime—with a priority on promoting stronger competition among enterprises to unleash innovation
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1181699473021/3876782-1191373775504/indiainnovationfull.pdf
40) Innovation A blue print for transforming the way your company innovates to the Core
Innovation is more rhetoric than reality, more buzzword than core competence. This book aims to change that. It gives organization leaders and front- line innovators a blueprint for building and deploying an enterprise capability for innovation. Based on real-world experience with a string of major companies, Peter and Rowan provide a practical, disciplined guide to making innovation a reality within your organization – helping you to achieve profitable, sustainable growth.
http://www.innovationtothecore.com/thebook/intro.cfm
41) Innovation and Transformation: A Lifecycle Model
The lifecycle model has been used many times to illustrate the growth, maturity and decay of an organization. The normal-curve product cycle and the s-curve are both visual examples. In this paper, the lifecycle model is used visually to explore the dynamics behind innovation: when to innovate, characteristics of the parent and child organizations, and some uses of innovation in transformation.
http://www.innovationtools.com/pdf/Innovation_and_Transformation.pdf
42) Innovation Infrastructure
Today, innovation is pretty much in a free-form state. And while the importance of innovation is increasingly talked about and showing up as a strategic priority … there has been little genuine understanding of how to build an innovation organization.
So instead of relying on serendipitous acts of creativity to foster innovation, this white paper describes how an Innovation Infrastructure can help you bring a steady pipeline of incremental and radical breakthrough innovations to your organization and marketplace.
http://www.innovationtools.com/PDF/Innovation_Infrastructure_Heindl.pdf
43) Strategic Innovation: the engine that propels business
Are you confident of your company’s ability to innovate in ways that will enable your business to excel in today’s globally competitive environment? Ok, how about just survive for the next 2-3 years (or even6-12 months). There is no room in today’s market for companies that cannot continually envision, conceptualize, and bring innovations to market that customers perceive as high value. Not only is it critical that businesses innovate and implement products and services in highly profitably ways, but also in the infrastructure of people and processes that enable a business to compete and win.
http://www.innovationtools.com/pdf/InnovationEngine.pdf
44) Mastering Innovation: Roadmap to Sustainable value creation
Harvesting the deep insights of an organization’s human spirit and knowledge, generating a pipeline of ideas that are evaluated, selected and ventured using disciplined tools, methods and processes that advances growth objectives for an organization.
http://www.innovationtools.com/PDF/innovation-roadmap.pdf
45) An Integrated Approach to Managing Innovation
Innovation is the core business competency of the 21st century. In order to not only compete and grow but to survive in a global economy, businesses must innovate. To date innovation has been approached in a piecemeal fashion often linked solely to the New Product Development (NPD) process.
This white paper seeks to illustrate a new comprehensive approach to managing innovation within business and introduces the Integrated Innovation Framework – an all encompassing approach to innovation management ‘beyond new product development’. This is relevant to all businesses irrespective of size or sector.
http://www.innovationtools.com/PDF/Integrated_Innovation_PLI.pdf
1. “The Massachusetts Innovation Index Case Study”
Using Porter’s “diamond” model as the reference point for measuring competitiveness, it maps different indicators in an innovation model framework, benchmarking against eight other leading technology states.
http://www.massmedic.com/docs/MassMEDIC.pdf
2. “Measuring Innovation Efficiency”
Using results from the European Innovation Scoreboard of 2007, the authors apply Data Envelopment Analysis to identify the most efficient performers where “efficiency” is defined as the ratio of outputs to inputs. Such an analysis helps identify to target of policy initiatives.
http://www.proinno-europe.eu/admin/uploaded_documents/eis_2007_Innovation_efficiency.pdf.
3. “European Innovation Scoreboard 2007: Comparative Analysis of Innovation Performance”
A guide to methodology for developing an innovation index, it compiles comprehensive data sheets for EU27 member countries and a few more which are then used for trend analysis of indicators and final composite innovation scores for these countries.
http://www.naider.com/upload/European_Innovation_Scoreboard_2007.pdf
4. “Innovation Index” Oregon 2007″
The above paper updates the Innovation Index for Oregon for the year 2007. The first such index for the state was published in the year 2004. The present study adds several new dimensions including an Innovation Grade based on the composite score of 20 innovation indicators.
www.oregon4biz.com/assets/docs/2007InnoIndexW.pdf
5. Climate Innovation Centre in Ghana
A climate innovation centre is an institution aimed at enabling development through catalyzing climate technology research, development, market creation and policy. This discussion paper discusses the possibilities, considerations and next steps for a Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) in Ghana based on new insights within the government of Ghana, a mapping of climate innovation in Ghana, new developments in the international climate negotiations and other multilateral processes, and analysis conducted by ECN.
(http://www.ecn.nl/docs/library/report/2011/o11025.pdf )
1) 7 strategies for sustained innovation
Sustained innovation comes from developing a collective sense of purpose; from unleashing the creativity of people throughout your organization and from teaching them how to recognize unconventional opportunities.
(http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/EnterpriseDetails.asp?a=185 )
2) How to Promote Clusters: Policy Experiences from Latin America
In this paper we propose to differentiate between three types of clusters when it comes to formulating cluster-oriented policies in Latin America. Survival clusters of micro- and small-scale enterprises owe their existence more to unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and less to entrepreneurial competence and dynamism. Their competitive potential is limited. Support measures should mainly aim at improving the conditions for survival since these clusters are important in creating employment opportunities.
(http://www.tci-network.org/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/694/original/cluster_policies_ltamerica.pdf )
3) Indicators to support innovation cluster policy
The elaboration of a conceptually grounded, easily replicable set of indicators for gauging the current state and future prospects for innovation cluster development is an essential aid for policy makers and stakeholders. In this paper we propose a parsimonious, generic cluster framework comprising six constructs and 34 variables, and describe the process for applying the framework to the analysis of clusters.
(www.proinnoeurope.eu/…/Arthurs%20et%20al%20%20indicators%20to%20support%20innovation%20cluster%20policy.pdf )
4) Science and Innovation Policy
Science and technology (S&T) influence society as never before. Scientific achievements continue to push back the frontier of knowledge and increasingly contribute to the technological progress that affects how we live and work. New technologies help to protect the environment, to build safer homes, schools and factories, and to develop energy-saving transport systems. Advances in genetics save lives and improve health standards throughout the world. Information and communications technologies (ICT) have enhanced productivity in the advanced economies and made it possible for a greater number of individuals, firms and countries to take part in the knowledge-based economy.
(www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/17/23706075.pdf )
5) Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in India under Economic Reform: A Survey
The role envisaged for science and technology in national life went well beyond an instrumental view of science and technology in any purely economic view of development. Science and scientific temper were, in a view most elegantly articulated by Nehru, indispensable to the development of a new ethos and world-view that would privilege rationality and a critical attitude.
(http://www.networkideas.org/ideasact/jan09/PDF/Jayaraman.pdf )
