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Assessing the readiness of municipalities for digital process innovation

Pre-adoption phases of innovation are understudied in the innovation literature. This article addresses preadoption phases of innovation by running a prospective analysis. We assess the readiness of municipalities for the adoption of a digital tool that br ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Assessing Technology Adoption in the European Air Traffic Management: The Cases of Virtual Centre and Flight-Centric Operations

Engin Zeki

This research focuses on emerging technologies in the European air traffic management (ATM), specifically investigating technology adoption by the main stakeholders. The European ATM consists of a highly fragmented aviation infrastructure, built and manage ...

EPFL2020

Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Jiayun Shen

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

Pour une fabrique des imaginaires de la Smart City

Jean-François Lucas

Cet article questionne les principales ambivalences de l’imaginaire de la Smart City, notamment héritées de l’imaginaire de l’innovation technique et des technologies de l’information et de la communication. Or, contrairement aux schémas classiques de la d ...

2019

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

Camille Marguerite Aouinait

Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...

EPFL2019

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Quentin Adrien Cavillier

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

Innovation persistence and employment dynamics

Gabriele Pellegrino

This paper examines the effect of persistence in product and process innovations on the employment dynamics of a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms observed over more than 20 years. We build a conceptual framework that links innovation, i ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Determinants of PhD holders' use of social networking sites: An analysis based on LinkedIn

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Social networking sites are an increasingly important tool for career development, especially for highly skilled individuals. Moreover, they may constitute valuable sources of data for scholars and policy makers. However, little research has been conducted ...

Elsevier2017

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector

Dominique Foray, Monica Coffano, Michele Pezzoni

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector. Regional Studies. This paper contributes an empirical analysis to the discussion of the impact of inventors' collaboration networks on regional innovation. M ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Human-centered Innovation Processes : The Case of Design Thinking in Nascent and Large Firms

Alan Cabello Llamas

For more than a decade managers, academics, educators and politicians have indicated that innovation is the key to our future. As a result, we find a plethora of innovation initiatives around the world, from university curricula to the mission statements o ...

EPFL2015

Open innovation research and e-government: clarifying the connections between two fields

Diane Poulin, Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

This paper investigates the linkages and influences between the open innovation paradigm and e-government research. To this end, an analysis of the e-government literature is carried out to understand how open innovation has been interpreted by e-governmen ...

Luiss University Press2015

Monitoring and prediction in Early Warning Systems (EWS) for rapid mass movements

Marc Schleiss, Dani Or, Alexis Berne, Alessio Ferrari

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the State of Practice in the application o ...

Copernicus Publications2015

The influence of industry downturns on the propensity of product versus process innovation

Christopher Tucci, Cristiano Zazzara

This article sheds light on how industry fluctuations affect firms' propensity to innovate. We test two seemingly conflicting arguments that suggest how firms are more or less inclined to engage in innovation activities during industry fluctuations. By stu ...

Oxford University Press2014

Spatio-Temporal Patterns for a Generalized Innovation Diffusion Model

Max-Olivier Hongler, Fariba Hashemi, Olivier Gallay

We construct a model of innovation diffusion that incorporates a spatial component into a classical imitation-innovation dynamics first introduced by F. Bass. Relevant for situations where the imitation process explicitly depends on the spatial proximity b ...

2012

Process Bifurcation and the Digital Chain in Architecture

Russell Alexander Loveridge

This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...

EPFL2012

'Technology, innovation and knowledge: An Asian perspective': Introduction

Christopher Tucci

Technology, knowledge and innovation play a crucial role in explaining the competitive potential of firms and countries in today’s globalised world. With lowered barriers to international activities, firms develop technological competencies abroad, either ...

2012

Innovation in use and research on cementitious material

Karen Scrivener

In this paper we discuss innovations in concrete technology which are currently being applied in the field-namely high and ultra high performance (strength), and self consolidating concrete. We discuss the factors which have enabled these developments and ...

2008

An agent-based approach to examine the ‘network knowledge advantage’ in open innovation networks: Firm openness and interorganizational network performance

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

In this paper we present the results of an agent-based model of open innovation, which suggest the network knowledge advantage underlying open interfirm networks of innovation, as opposed to an advantage arising from the interfirm network structure. To dat ...

2007

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