This paper reports on the results of an analysis at Centre for Research on Innovation and
Competition (CRIC) of the data from the 1996 and 1997 Survey of Innovation Trends …

This book answers the question of how to improve the innovation performance of large
companies. It discusses how a wide range of management systems and practices impact …

We explore the causal links between service firms' knowledge investments, their innovation
outputs and business growth based on a bespoke survey of around 1100 UK service …

Innovation-related activities within firms have traditionally been viewed as primary drivers of
product and service differentiation and hopefully firm performance. Such views assume the …

Despite innovation's importance in firm strategy and competitiveness, most innovation
research fails to examine some important questions relating to innovation. This study …

Innovation is a key ingredient in building high performance organisations1. This is
especially true in the fast changing and complex environment that most organisations exist …

Scholars and practitioners provide a great number of varying definitions for the term
'Innovation'. All definitions have in common that innovations can be regarded as something …

This paper explores the relationship between innovation performance (in terms of product
and process) and business performance (sales growth, market share and profitability) and …

With innovation having been recognised as the means for creating and sustaining
competitive advantage within an increasingly complex and changing environment, it has …

There is widespread understanding that intellectual capital (IC), consisting of the valuable
knowledge resources of an organization, is a key enabler of innovation activities; however …