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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to satisfy a clear gap in the main field of open innovation research whereabouts a very little scholarship try to analyze the mechanisms of innovativemilieudown smart cities environments by applying through innovative projects that seem to support efficiently the entry of private firms and citizens in public collaborations.Design/methodology/approachThe research performed an exploratory and qualitative evaluation based on the case study method built on the evaluation of organizational behavior and urban boosting innovation through smart city initiatives. In doing so, after a literature review in smart city as well in lean methodology fields, the case of Turin Smart City follows.FindingsAs acknowledged by international literature, the paper shows how a lean approach enables local government to define and realize smart projects and initiatives in a faster and more effective way. Particularly, the government in one of the main cities in Italy, id est...

The purpose of the paper is to describe a set of variables able to show the level of propensity to innovate. In order to evaluate innovation, the authors built a model with different variables that can help management to measure the level of innovation in their company. The model is based both on theories about innovation and on the authorspsila

Socioeconomic trends (such as makers, crowdsourcing, sharing economy, gamification) as well as technological trends (such as cloud computing, 3D printing technology, application, big data, TV on demand and the Internet of things) are changing the scenario and creating new opportunities, new businesses and, as a result, new players. The high level of uncertainty caused by the fast speed of innovation technology along with an enormous amount of information difficult to analyse and exploit are characterizing the current framework. On the other hand, businesses such as Netflix – with its 44,000 users and a long tail business model – show a new service based on TV on demand where innovation starts from the convergence between two different industries (TV and the Internet) and spreads on the need of new users. Quirky, with its innovative open business model, is manufacturing new products designed and developed by the community and finally produced with the use of 3D printing technology. W...

A study at the enterprise level is carried on, through a simulation model, to explore different aggregate behaviors emerging from individual collaborative strategies and the effects of innovation diffusion. In particular, turbulent periods are taken into account (e.g. an Economic, Financial or Environmental crisis), during which the individual perception of the enterprises can be distorted both by exogenous factors and

ABSTRACT The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., attracted a greater number of papers than any previous conference. The event was intended to highlight the importance of the contribution of design to organisational effectiveness and success, particularly in the ways that it can improve the new product development process, contribute to better strategic thinking and decision-making, and be an important element in the leader¡¦s toolkit. The conference was a means for researchers and thinkers to celebrate the importance of design and to work towards becoming a credible and full participant in the work of organisations. We were proud and deeply honoured to have Professor Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto, as our keynote speaker. He has been an inspirational thinker and one of the foremost and most passionate advocates of the methodologies and thinking of design as important and under-utilised organisational resources. Our goal was to create an inclusive conversation among academics from a variety of disciplines, including business (organizational behavior, strategy, marketing, and operations) and design management (design strategy, product design, brand identity, communications, interactive design, user experience, architecture, and environmental design). We aimed to advance the state of the art in design management research, theory, and practice, and produce a significant contribution to this exciting and fast-developing field. Businesses are changing; manufacturers are becoming service providers and services are focusing increasingly on experiences. Organizations, in both the profit and the social sector, are seeking competitive advantage through innovation in their offerings, structure, processes, and business models. We believe that this was an appropriate time to convene a gathering of academics to take a critical look at how to bring a scholarly lens to the ways that design may help to both shape and implement innovation in these emerging developments. The theme of the conference, Leading Innovation through Design, clearly attracted management theorists as well as well as design theorists, as it was intended to do. The conference organisers, in locating it close both physically and in terms of time alongside the management community's main academic conference -the AOM- hoped to attract "mainstream" management researchers to contribute to the design management research conversation. The organisers believe that design management research has been undeservedly neglected by management theorists. The result was a large number of submissions of top quality, interesting, and rigorous papers. A total of 195 submissions were received from 36 countries and 133 universities and research institutes. These submissions were blind reviewed. Approximately 45% were accepted for presentation of full papers at the conference, and are published in these proceedings. The conference was organised around these seven themes, and both full paper presentations and poster sessions were organised into these tracks: - Innovations in Design Research Methodologies, Management Processes. - Bridging Research and Practice in the Management of Design. - Design-Led Innovation in Business Models. - Developing Design Thinking Skills. - Design-Led Innovation in Products and Services. - Design-Led Innovation in Organizations and the Workplace. - Innovations in Design Management Education. We would like to thank a number of people and organisations who have been helpful in organising the conference and preparing this set of proceedings. These include John Tobin, VP, Business Operations, from Design Management Institute who provided exceptional support in his role as Conference Secretary. We would like to thank Esther Dudley from Plymouth University, who encourage her students to produce artwork proposals for the conference identity, Sarah Essex whose design proposals were adopted, and every member of the International Scientific Review Committee who provided their time and expertise during the review process. This was a truly international team effort by conference committee whose members were dispersed across the world. RESUMEN. Liderando la Innovación a través del Diseño: Actas de la Conferencia Internacional de Investigación DMI 2012. La XVII Conferencia académica organizada por el Instituto de Gestión del Diseño (DMI) de Boston, Massachusetts, atrajo a un mayor número de trabajos que cualquier conferencia anterior. El evento estaba destinado a destacar la importancia de la contribución del diseño a la eficacia y el éxito de la organización, en particular en las formas en que puede mejorar el nuevo proceso de desarrollo de productos, contribuir al pensamiento y toma de decisiones estratégicas, que es un elemento importante entre las herramienta de los líderes. La conferencia fue un medio para que los investigadores…

ABSTRACT The aim of the analysis is to understand if the risk capital carried by Business Angels (B.A.) could affect firms with high innovation propensity in creating more innovations than receiving risk capital from other financial operators. Innovation is a critical factor for the competitiveness of national system especially when the economy of the latter has come to maturity. For realizing "the successful exploitation of ideas, into new products, processes, services or business practices, and the critical process for achieving two complementary business goals of performance and growth, which in turn will help to close the productivity gap" (DTI's Innovation Report, 2003, p. 8), firms have to understand which are the right competences to increase. In this context, the authors have developed a framework that measures the propensity to innovate in the firms. The model considers the firm's competences (grouped into four macro areas as management, organization, ITC and marketing) to improve the creation, development and diffusion of the innovation. The work is structured as an empirical analysis as follows: (1) The authors analyzed a sample of 12 business plans (choices for high level of innovation in their business) that received risk capital from B.A. and other financial operators; (2) For each firm, their innovation propensity is measured through the author's model during their start-up period (the data analyzed are business plan's data); (3) After a period of time (3 years), the authors checked if the firms with high innovation propensity have created real innovation and if a correlation exists between risk capital origin (from Business Angels or not) and innovation propensity. The conclusion of the work is the firms with B.A.'s risk capital have a high innovation propensity and create after a medium term period more innovation compared with the others. The complex phenomena of innovation and its importance that plays in the firm's productivity are a debated and proved theme by now (Klomp & Van Leeuwen, 1999; Loof & Heshmati, 2001; Audretch, 1995; Wakelin, 1998; Roper & Love, 2002). It's not so easy to understand why a firm is able to innovate and others are not even if they work in the same industry, region or nation. It's obvious that considering homogeneous firms in the same Paola Pisano, researcher, Computer Science Department, Turin University; research fields: innovation diffusion, network, strategy, organization, financial regulation with alternative methodology like simulation with agent based model, content analysis, mean field analysis, neural network. Marco Pironti, associate professor, Computer Science Department, Turin University; He is in charge as scientific chief of E-Business Lab and of "Innovation Observatory" in collaboration with School of Innovation; He carried out visiting scholarship at Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, Haas School of Business, Berkeley (CA) (2008) and at CEBIZ (Center for Excellence in E-Business), Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York; research fields: new business models resulting from technological development, the impact of the net economy on corporate organisation. Bernardo Bertoldi, associate professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Turin; He is also affiliate professor at ESCP-EAP, and in the Turin campus, he is also the director of the recently-established Entrepreneurship Center; research fields: new businesses creation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic decisions & investments, fundamental of finance.

... c defines the owned competences, with a length L and competences C represented by a boo-lean variable (where ... Enterprise Cluster Dynamics and Innovation Diffusion ... Shan, W., Walker, G., Kogut, B.: Interfirm cooperation and startup innovation in the bio-technology industry. ...

Page 1. sinergie n. 83/10 Diffusione dell'innovazione ed evoluzione dei sistemi locali complessi: un'analisi attraverso la simulazione ad agenti MARCO PIRONTI* MARCO REMONDINO** PAOLA PISANO*** Abstract Il presente ...

The influence of geography and location on the behavior and performance of organizations is a matter of considerable interest to students of economics, innovation and strategic management (Breschi & Lissoni, 2001; DeCarolis & Deeds, 1999; Feldman, 1994; Martin ...

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus that causes a progressive disruption of immune function in cats. The neuroendocrine and immune systems communicate bidirectionally, mediated by cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF), several interleukins (IL-1, IL-6, IL-10), and through signals induced by the ratio of IL-10 to IL-12. FIV can affect both pituitary adrenal and thyroid axis function. Twenty FIV-infected cats in similar stages of the disease were evaluated for six months. A cross-sectional study in which the twenty cats were divided into two groups was performed. Ten were treated with Zidovudine (ZDV: 5mg/kg/d, PO, q12h, for six months) and 10 were untreated. Plasma concentrations of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), cortisol, T4, FT4, T3, IL-10, IL-12 and viral load (VL) were evaluated after six months. ACTH was found in significantly lower concentrations (p<0.0001) in the treated group whereas cortisol did not show significant differences between the two groups. Both T4 and FT4 had high values in untreated individuals (p<0.001) compared with Zidovudine treated cats. T3 did not show significant differences between the two groups. Both IL-10 and IL-12 were found in significantly higher concentrations in ZDV treated cats (p<0.001). By contrast, the IL10/IL-12 ratio values were significantly lower in untreated cats. Viral load was significantly lower in the treated cats after six months of therapy, compared with values detected pre-treatment (p<0.002). Untreated cats showed a significant increase of VL (p<0.04) compared with the values at the beginning of the study. In treated cats, VL showed lower numbers of viral copies than in untreated cats (p<0.01). In summary, Zidovudine treatment appeared to contribute to the normalization of both the adrenal and thyroid axes. This effect could be attributed to the decrease observed in VL, resulting in a change in cytokine patterns.

Abstract–The objective of this work is to investigate the content analysis methodology in the strategic propensity such as explorative/exploitative behavior. After theoretical analysis on the meaning and definition of exploitation and exploration, the authors have applied the ...

Purpose – This papers aims to deal with enterprise networks and clusters dynamics, as well as inter-firm joint efforts and collaborations, in order to study their evolution and possible effects when radical innovation occurs inside them. Design/methodology/approach – In order to study these dynamics, with the optimal balancing among different strategies and the importance of exogenous parameters in cluster creation,

Abstract—The objective of this work is to investigate the content analysis methodology in the strategic propensity such as explorative/exploitative behavior. After theoretical analysis on the meaning and definition of exploitation and exploration, the authors have applied the ...