Wake up and Smell the Ginseng: International Trade and the Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries

Increasingly, a small number of lowwage countries such as China, India and Mexico are involved in incremental innovation. That is, they are responsible for resolving productionline bugs and suggesting product improvements. We provide evidence of this new phenomenon and develop a model in which there is a transition from oldstyle productcycle trade to trade involving incremental innovation in lowwage countries. The model explains why levels of involvement in incremental innovation vary across lowwage countries and across firms within each lowwage country. We draw out implications for sectoral earnings, living standards, the capital account and, foremost, international trade in goods.international trade, lowwage country innovation

Adoption of alternative transport technologies in the construction industry

This research examines how the construction industry adopts alternative transport technologies. This paper presents the general characteristics of the adopter and what his perceptions are towards innovative transport technologies. The study focused on four rates of innovation, related tot alternative transport technologies. The results show that 83% of the respondents choose innovation over no innovation; more than half of the respondents choose an innovation that can be characterized as “architectural”. Further, the perceived benefits of the innovation characteristics for an incremental innovation are higher then the perceived benefits for an architectural or radical innovation. Finally, from the ventures that chose to innovate, smaller companies prefer an architectural - more challenging - innovation rather then an incremental innovation

The Innovation Waltz: Unpacking Developers’ Response to Market Feedback and Its Effects on App Performance

To remain competitive in the intensely competitive mobile app market, developers often rely on user feedback to fuel the innovation process. Past studies, however, have rarely examined the impact of developers’ incremental innovation strategies by treating app innovation as a continuous process. This knowledge gap prompted us to advance a framework of developers’ incremental innovation strategies comprising four coping strategies: sailing, optimizing, supplementing, and patching. Employing a multi-state Markov model to capture the probability of a developer employing an incremental innovation strategy in response to distinct types of market feedback during the app innovation process, we analyze data sourced from the Android app store that consists of 4,583 apps, 29,307 updates, and 231,817 reviews. We discovered that market feedback affects the adoption of the four incremental innovation strategies differently. Additionally, we found that sailing, supplementing, and optimizing strategies boost app downloads, while supplementing, optimizing, and patching strategies improve app ratings

Introducing Inventiveness into the Patent System: Submission to the Review of the National Innovation System

Because of the potential impact of the patent system on innovation diffusion, particularly on continuous and/or incremental innovation, patent policy should be of central importance to the review of the national innovation system. Substantial empirical evidence shows that most industrial innovations are not induced by the patent system. Even in very large markets, such as the USA, only a minority of patents are likely to be induced by the patent system. To the extent that patents do induce innovations, it is the inventiveness of the innovation which gives rise to possible social benefits (externalities, mainly in the form of knowledge spillovers) which may offset the costs of a patent system and thus give rise to a net economic benefit. On the basis of this evidence about the inducement effect of the patent system, and evidence on the current very low inventiveness standard for patent grant, policy proposals are put forward to re-introduce inventiveness into the patent system, thus making it potentially welfare-enhancing. These proposed changes would also have a major impact in ameliorating the negative impact of the patent system on continuous/incremental innovation

Patterns of Discovery

From a given directed weighted network of knowledge links between technology fields, the paper develops a multisector dynamic model of incremental innovation and R&D activity in these fields. The model is focused on the equilibrium share distribution of these variables, which is proved to be locally stable, with reference to a simple low dimensional case. Simulation methods suggest that local, and also global, stability extend to any model dimension. It is also shown how different network structures map to different asymptotic share distributions. Using the NBER patents and patent citation data files, the analytical framework is then used to analyse some general features of the pattern of knowledge creation and transfer in the period 1975-1999. From a descriptive viewpoint, the changes in the share distribution of innovation activity predicted by the model match reasonably well the actual changes in the perioddirected weighted network, knowledge spillovers, share distribution, incremental innovation and R&D dynamics, local stability, simulation, patents and patent citations

The Global Union Research Network: A Potential for Incremental Innovation?

One of the current paradoxes for trade unions is that organizing is an essentially local or national affair whilst the most pressing challenge for unions, which is globalization, can only be faced in a global context. This paper analyzes to what extent the Global Union Research Network (GURN) has the potential to be regarded as an incremental innovation for research within the international labour movement. The paper argues that the GURN can become an incremental innovation and there are three stages to this argument. Firstly the GURN in conceptualized within the international trade union movement. Secondly the term 'innovation' is defined and the GURN is presented as a potential, albeit incremental, innovation. The final stage examines GURN sustainability and the barriers to its institutionalization

The rhetorical strategies to create incremental innovation in applied linguistics research articles

Rhetorical studies within research articles have received a growing concern among linguists worldwide. However, studies on this significant area to create incremental innovation are rarely found. Understanding this need has attracted the authors to conduct the present study by investigating rhetorical strategies authors use to create incremental innovation in their research articles and analyzing linguistic features used to create innovation for their current research. In an attempt to address these purposes, the present study analyzed 37 research article introductions (RAIs) from the disciplines of Applied Linguistics published in four reputable international journals (Q1) with the Scimago Journal Ranks (SJR) higher than 0,61. This study employed a newly designed framework and linguistic feature approaches from previous studies for the analysis. The results showed three rhetorical strategies to create incremental innovation in research articles. However, of these three, most authors tend to employ Strategy 2, Presenting the existing knowledge – and then – improving it in the present study, more than the other two strategies. Then, to realize incremental innovation, they employed six linguistic features, but of these six, two features (connective adverbs and phrases denoting examining a particular issue) appeared to be the most dominant in the present data

Building Ideapreneurship Capability: Delivering Differentiated Customer Value From the Frontline

[Excerpt] Transformational innovation appears to be a dominant aspiration of most leading firms. While such innovation efforts are pervasive across industries and regions, the results from these endeavors can be highly varied. Instead of a single-minded focus on transformational innovation, could incremental innovation, if directly tied to real customer need, be a powerful opportunity for growth and sustainability in this dynamic world? HCL Technologies, a global IT services firm based in Noida, India believes so

Listen to the market: Do its complexity and signals make companies more innovative

This paper analyzes four modes of innovation that differ in their scope of newness – innovation generation and adoption–, and in their degree of change –radical and incremental innovations. Building a theoretical model based on the Market Orientation (MO) and contingency theory literatures and utilizing a unique sample of innovating firms, we find that MO positively influence the number incremental generation and adoption of innovations. We also find that environmental complexity moderates the relationship between MO and radical and incremental innovation generation and adoption. That is, we have found that high environmental complexity enhances the introduction of radical and incremental internally generated innovations and harms the introduction of incremental innovation adoptions for market oriented firm. These findings add to the innovation and MO literatures. Our results also have important implications for both commercial activities and R&D policies adopted by firms.taking place in this sector enhances its potential as a showcase for processes of anticipation and adaptation to the environment. In addition, the paper aims to shed some light on the question of whether strategy potentially moderates the MO-performance link. Finally, the principal implications of our findings are discussed.Market orientation, environmental complexity, innovation

The Effect of Organizational Inertia and Customer Orientation with Incremental Innovation as the Mediating Variable towards Organizational Performance

The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between Organizational Inertia, Customer Orientation, Incremental Innovation and Organizational Performance. The sample used in this study were 180 MSME companies spread across East Java. The reason MSMEs are used in this study is related to the concept of organizational inertia that is attached to small-scale companies. From this study it was found that incremental innovation is not a mediating variable that links organizational inertia and customer orientation with organizational performance