The translation of available knowledge to home-grown needs is vital for developing nations’ economies, says a review of SIDA’s innovation. Go to Source ...

Abstract Purpose – This research responds to Simon’s (1999) challenge to apply “an economic calculus to knowledge”. The paper develops...

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The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive advantage. Increasingly firms seek knowledge...

When was the last time you read one of your old textbooks? I bet it’s been awhile. But if you were to compare the version you studied in school to the most recent edition currently in use — no matter how recently you graduated — you’d find your version sorely outdated. You shouldn’t be surprised by this: facts are changing all around us. ...

Organizations require an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within all the phases of its process in order to analyze, understand, select, and integrate ideas into a business model. Management Control Systems, as a part of the structural capital, can be utilized as knowledge integration mechanisms to provide: i) a dialog among internal or...

The author provides a framework comprising of propositions for further research explicating the relations between IT-based knowledge capabilities (IT-KC) and Commercialization of Innovations (CI). They posit that a firm’s absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) affect CI. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to ambidexterity....

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