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Evolution is another well-known theory that explains innovation as a process of variation, optimization, selection, and self-organization (Poutanen et al., 2016).
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Our findings support the relevance of considering a corporate governance view for explaining innovation outcomes.
As previously stated, network externalities alone do not adequately explain innovation diffusion [41].
This study examines how firm-level resources interact with regional institutional quality to explain innovation in East Africa.
Therefore, the Lundvall inclination of explaining innovation, based on national innovation systems, can be comfortably incorporated into our proposed concept of "multi-level systems of innovation".
Third, and finally, as other literature in technology (particularly social technology) adoption suggests, network externalities alone might not be adequate to fully explain innovation adoption.
Research on innovation in firms is important as there may be a unique set of processes and resources involved that may help explain innovation as a critical factor in predicting SME performance (Anderson and Eshima 2011; Achtenhagen et al. 2010).
The authors investigate how to make sense of the multiplicity of these theories The authors further suggest that instead of trying to stipulate one general theory as the best choice to explain innovation, it would be more informative and useful to consider a set of theories and models that can be combined and adapted to understand innovation and change.
From an empirical perspective, some studies have found a positive correlation between horizontal collaboration and innovation (Quintana-Garcia and Benavides-Velasco 2004; Najib and Kiminami 2011), while others did not find any evidence that horizontal collaboration was significant explaining innovation among SMEs (De Propris 2002; Freel and Harrison 2006).
However, it has also been argued that total brain size may not be the ideal proxy for cognition and that measures should be taken to explore particular brain regions to explain innovation and tool-use [ 70].
Therefore, it is important to combine these studies with an understanding of the mechanism and timing of divergence between homeologous chromosome arms across salmon lineages so that it will be possible to understand how duplication played a role in evolution of salmon, and whether key genomic regions might explain innovation across a subset of species.
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