... simulation “model” of the whole market system of interest. In this model, face‐to‐face communication among functional, disciplinary and hierarchal normally differentiated actors are used to perform various system simulations among problems and ideas and, at the same time, the real change process is started...

...Simon Philbin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of university‐industry research collaboration through the development of a new process model. Design/methodology/approach A literature review was carried out on collaborative partnering and supporting factors...

...Ben Shaw‐Ching Liu; Ravindranath Madhavan; D. Sudharshan Purpose To provide an explicit model to address the relationships between the structural characteristics of a network and the diffusion of innovations through it. Further, based on the above relationships, this research tries to provide...

...Barbara Scozzi; Claudio Garavelli; Kevin Crowston Purpose Sets out to investigate business modeling techniques (BMTs) which can be used to support and improve innovation processes within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review...

... epidemic modeling to develop a series of algebraic equations that mathematically demonstrates the process by which innovative ideas are diffused throughout organizations, and then derive a set of propositions from the equations that specify how variables in the equations might be affected to facilitate...