Working Papers
- Science Progress (12.1.2009): Benchmarking Foreign Innovation, The United States Needs to Learn from Other Industrialized Democracies.
While many nations have taken the innovation challenge to heart and put in place a host of policies to spur innovation, the United States has done little, consequently falling behind in innovation policies and risking falling behind in innovation performance as well. - Kuusisto A. & Kuusisto J. (2007): Use of knowledge intensive business services by SMEs – some policy implications. RESER (European Network for Research on Services) conference, Tampere, Finland, 13.-15.9.2007.
The study examines the use of knowledge intensive business services by SMEs in a regional context in Finland. The results show that for the SMEs, “learning by doing” is a primary way of learning how to make effective use of knowledge intensive services. - E.K.Vuori. (2005) "Knowledge-intensive service organizations as agents in a business ecosystem," icsssm, pp. 908-912 Vol. 2, Proceedings of ICSSSM '05. 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, 2005. Vol. 2, 2005
The paper discusses a new approach to modeling organization populations containing knowledge-intensive service organizations. The paper presents the concept of business ecosystem, and the agent-based modeling of it, as a possibility to understand the complex environment where knowledge-intensive service (KIS) organizations operate. - CRIC (Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition)
- CRIC Briefing No. 2, Innovation in Services. 2006.
Much has been written about how the innovation process works in manufacturing, but services have received much less attention. Services cannot be regarded as mere passive consumers of technology - in fact their methods of innovation are becoming increasingly relevant. - CRIC Discussion Paper No. 66, Bruce Tether: Do Services Innovate (Differently)? November 2004
Services do not generally produce technologically advanced artefacts, they are often considered to be non-innovative, or ‘supplier dominated’ recipients of technologies rather than ‘true innovators’. It can also be stated that services tend to innovate differently from manufacturers, or at least that innovation in services brings to the fore ‘softer’ aspects of innovation based in skills and inter-organisational co-operation practices which are pervasive across the economy, but which do not tend to be prominent amongst manufacturers, and are therefore neglected. - CRIC Discussion Paper No. 62, Jeremy Howells: Innovation, Consumption and Knowledge: Services and Encapsulation. August 2003
The study seeks to provide a comprehensive review of current literature on the subject of consumption and innovation. From there on the focus shifts to more specific considerations on how the consumption process helps to articulate and frame the dynamics of innovation.
- CRIC Briefing No. 2, Innovation in Services. 2006.
