Innovation can be defined as anything new. It may be a completely novel idea, or a concept
transferred from another field which has an exciting new application. In this sense, ideas …

For innovation to be beneficial to the firm, it must lead to increased competitiveness. The
1996 Global Manufacturing Futures Survey conducted in over ten countries and/or regions …

Using data from the 1999 Survey of Innovation, this paper evaluates the incidence of
innovation for the manufacturing industries between 1997-1999. Data shows that more than …

This paper investigates the comparability of the 1999 Canadian Survey of Innovation with
the European Community Innovation Surveys for 1997/1998 (CIS2). Four European …

Innovation is the main condition for survival and growth of companies living in a turbulent
environment with rapid changes in technology, markets, competitive environment, and …

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 …

In today's business environment, organisations keep evolving ways of outwitting one
another in the marketplace in order to remain compeitive and achieve strategic goals. One of …

Innovation is widely accepted as a crucial competitive weapon in today's global market
place. Yet the levels of innovation achieved by different firms, even within the same industry …

Innovation is broadly seen as the starting point of a competitive economy in recent decade
since added value of existing product and services of companies are diminished by quickly …

Most empirical studies on innovative activity are based on a single (or a very small number
of) indicator (s), a procedure not appropriate in view of the complexity of the innovation …