review of innovation research in tourism Anne-Mette Hjalager University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrsvej 9-10, DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 January 2009 Accepted 31 August 2009 Keywords: Innovation Innovation systems Knowledge Clusters Policy a b s t r a c t Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus on the topic of innovation in tourism. This article reviews the research contributions. Various categories of innovation – product
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Innovation Name MGT/411 October 2, 20XX Innovation A business needs to overcome many obstacles in order to stay relevant within the every changing marketplace. Innovation is essential in order to keep the competitive edge over the completion and help maintain stability and profitability in the industry. Due to the technological advances in today’s world, the market is constantly changing at a rapid pace as it adjusts to the consumers’ needs and wants. Successful companies have innovators
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Entrepreneurship and Business Maris Farquharson Discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development. Yasong Zhao Student ID: 6511938 Word Count:1994 1. Introduction Over the past decade or so, the term entrepreneurship has become a fashionable way to describing the attempts at large-scale change by individuals and organizations. During this procedure, Innovation as the most important component of entrepreneurship is at a leading place, whereas, the combination
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Analysis of Intuit and Organizational Change This paper will follow a case study regarding the company Intuit, called Conspiracy of Change at Intuit. Intuit was a successful software company that enjoyed an 80 percent market share in each of its three product lines; it was one of the few companies still left that directly competed with Microsoft and still emerged on top (Jick & Peiperl, 2003, p.5). However with the increasing popularity of the internet it recognized that it needed to innovate in
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iii 1. Innovation policy trends 1 1.1 Trends and key challenges for innovation policy 1 1.2 Innovation governance 7 1.3 Recent changes in the innovation policy mix 12 1.4 Internationalisation of innovation policies 15 1.5 Evidence on effectiveness of innovation policy 16 2. Innovation policy budgets – an overview 19 2.1 Trends in funding of innovation measures 19 2.2 Departmental and implementing agency budgets for innovation policies
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Creating an Innovation Paper Daniel Felock Grand Canyon University: ENT 435 September 14, 2014 Create an Innovation According to merriam-webster.com (2014), an innovation is defined as a new idea, method, or device or the introduction of something new ("Innovation - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary," 2014). Innovations have been known to hurt companies, such as “New Coke”. According to Time.com (2014): Marketers should have known — don't mess with consumers'
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constituent parts. The above given Schumpeter’s definition of entrepreneurship can be broken down as follows: * Entrepreneurs are economic actors, i.e. individuals engaged in commercial activity * Entrepreneurs create new ventures through innovation * Innovation consists in combining existing factors of production in new ways We will analyse both Schumpeter’s and modern day entrepreneurs along these and other dimensions in an attempt to place Schumpeter’s concepts in the realities of the 21st century
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behave differently than non-charismatic leaders. Furthermore we know that charismatic leaders can generate social changes with ease, and that the performance of charismatic leaders and their subordinates is at a higher level when compared to that of non-charismatic. At this moment in time very little about the processes by which leaders and followers interact to effect social changes (Meindl, 1992). This paper will answer the questions I think need to be addressed when try to understand charismatic
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Sustainability and Change Management By Thom Walters Change continues to be a central topic of business and a normal part of it’s lexicon as it embraces and navigates acquisitions, re-structuring, technologies, innovations, regulations, globalization, and organizational culture. With “change” being a non-negotiable element in organizational life, it is clear that it can’t be treated as a footnote or dictate, but must be an intentional consideration in every strategic endeavor. Companies that
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through Disruptive Innovation and what Redbox needs to do to better position themselves in a volatile market place. I will also look at the mistakes Blockbuster made and offer solutions on how Redbox can avoid the organizational decline that Blockbuster experienced. I use Wall Street Journal and peer-reviewed academic journals for my references. To understand the full scope of how Redbox entered the market I will look at the Disruptive Innovation Theory. Disruptive Innovation Theory is a term
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