This chapter investigates the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and innovation process. There is an ongoing discussion in the literature regarding this relationship, in particular on its one- or bidirectional nature and possible antecedents or mediating factors. This research addresses this gap and aims to provide more conceptual clarity and synthesize the different types of relationships between CSR and...

Open innovation is a concept, whose attributes can be perceived as naturally complementing the proximity-based offer of clusters. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential role of clusters as intermediaries of open innovation for cluster members. A literature review and an exploratory study were performed, involving in-depth interviews with experts in the field of innovation and clusters in Poland. This article...

Zaproponowano podejście do wykorzystania wiedzy zawartej w procesach innowacyjnych. Przedstawiono model pomocny w wychwytywaniu tego rodzaju wiedzy.

Enforcement of innovation is often seen as something imperceptible, something that one can't learn. This article is trying to approve that organizations can learn how to deploy innovations.The knowledge can be saved in such matter that it will be possible to reuse it later.

This paper illustrates the idea of Smart Innovation Engineering (SIE) System that helps in carrying the process of product innovation. The SIE system collects the experiential knowledge from the formal decisional events. This experiential knowledge is collected from the set of similar products having some common functions and features. Due to the fact that SIE system collects, captures and reuses the experiential knowledge of all...