Search results for "innovation."

Developing a Competency Framework for Intergenerational Startup Innovation in a Digital Collaboration Setting

2021

This study proposes a framework for the collaborative development of global start-up innovators in a multigenerational digital environment. Intergenerational collaboration has been identified as a strategy to support entrepreneurs during their formative years. However, integrating and fostering intergenerational collaboration remains elusive. Therefore, this study aims to identify competencies for successful global startups through intergenerational knowledge transfer. We used a systematic literature review to identify a competency set consisting of growth virtues, effectual creativity, technical domain, responsive teamwork, values-based organization, sustainable networking, cultural awaren…

Sustainable innovation : a new age of innovation and Finland's innovation policy

2010

Maaseutuyritysten innovaatioprosessit : kaupungin ja maaseudun vuorovaikutuksen näkökulma

2003

Understanding and measuring social entrepreneurship

2017

This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and measure its component dimensions. In particular, the thesis addresses two research gaps in the social entrepreneurship research. The first gap addressed is the resource mobilization during marketing strategy development of a social enterprise in its start-up stage. Social entrepreneurship is a diverse concept constituting various organizational form and activities. Hence, the second research gap that this research study addresses is the issue of measurement of social entrepreneurship construct. The thesis consists of an introductory essay and five research articles. The first two articles in this compilation addres…

An intergenerational competency framework : Competencies for knowledge sustainability and start‐up development in the digital age

2022

In this study, we looked at the competencies and changes in the competency spectrum required for global start-ups in the digital age. Specifically, we explored intergenerational collaboration as an intervention in which experienced business-people from senior adult groups support young entrepreneurs. We conducted a Delphi study with 20 experts from different disciplines, considering the study context. The results of this study shed light on understanding the necessary competencies of entrepreneurs for intergenerationally supported start-up innovation by providing 27 competencies categorized as follows: intergenerational safety facilitation, cultural awareness, virtues for growth, effectual …

Co-dynamics in engendering innovations through collaborative leadership - A complexity-based approach

2013

The paper presents ten co-dynamics that are supposed to be those underlying forces and powers that bring about an innovation creation process. The co-dynamics as unpredictable movements have been found by a Grounded Theory approach from two large-scale data. Parts of the other data serve here as the empirical source. In order to comprehend the nature of the co-dynamic, the notion of collaborative leadership is exploited. It includes both human participants and tangible elements, such as activities, practices, measures, or tools when synergy is gained. Collaborative leadership is supposed to be, at the same time, both the very source and the result of the dynamical movements. nonPeerReviewed

The use of social media for knowledge acquisition and dissemination in B2B companies: an empirical study of Finnish technology industries

2019

Scholars and practitioners of knowledge management have paid increasing attention to the adoption of social media in business-to-business (B2B) setting for knowledge sharing; however, both the theoretical and empirical research in this domain are quite fragmented. The aim of this research is to deepen the understanding about the B2B companies’ awareness of the potentials of social media in improving their absorptive capacity and, consequently, if and how such companies deploy knowledge strategies based on social media adoption. We carried out an empirical survey of Finnish technology companies operating purely in B2B markets. Results highlight that social media adoption is still in a prelim…

Rola innowacji pedagogicznych we współczesnej szkole

2018

Zgodnie z twierdzeniem M. Fullan'a permanentna zmiana jest jedną z najbardziej typowych cech społeczeństwa postmodernistycznego. Zmiany dotyczą także systemów edukacyjnych, w całości, albo ich poszczególnych elementów. Do kategorii zmian zalicza się reformy, ulepszenia, usprawnienia, a także innowacje. Jedną z istotnych zmian występujących w polskim systemie szkolnym są innowacje pedagogiczne realizowane przez nauczycieli na różnych szczeblach edukacji. W tekście zaprezentowano rolę nauczyciela w tworzeniu innowacji jako zmiany zawierającej elementy nowości, wprowadzanej świadomie do systemu szkolnego w celu ulepszania praktyki edukacyjnej. Słowa kluczowe: innowacje, zmiana, nauczyciel

Multimodalidad e innovación metodológica en la enseñanza del inglés [Recurso electrónico] : el álbum ilustrado como recurso literario y visual para e…

2020

Referencias bibliográficas: p. 74-77. Este artículo se centra en el proyecto de innovación “Recursos multimodales y literacidad” (UV-SFPIE_GER18-952026) llevado a cabo en la Facultat de Magisteri de la Universitat de València durante los cursos 2017-18 y 2018-19. En consonancia con los retos de la sociedad digital del siglo XXI y con el enfoque de la pedagogía de las multiliteracidades para el desarrollo del conocimiento, proponemos la multimodalidad, y en especial, el álbum ilustrado, primero, como un recurso literario y estético clave para la formación integral de los futuros docentes de inglés como L2 y, segundo, como una plataforma interdisciplinar para la construcción de significados. …

L'économie matérielle de la France (1830-2015). L'histoire d'un parasite ?

2018

This article explores the long-term dynamics of material use in France over a period of 185 years. It is based on material flow accounts that are perfectly consistent with the standards of Material Flows Analysis at the national economic scale. This work - which covers domestic extraction, imports and exports - is the first long-term study of material flows for France, with annual and national data for most of the period. Our database allows us to study the evolution of French metabolism during the industrialization of the country, together with the increasing dependence on abiotic materials. We highlight a singular metabolic trajectory: that of a state that benefits from successive world-s…