By identifying a portfolio of economic factors that influence innovation, we offer insights policy makers may call upon to design effective policies targeted toward promoting and encouraging innovation.
Questions were based on the factors identified in the systematic literature review [ 20] and qualitative study [ 21] (see Additional file 1) and divided into six categories of factors that may influence the introduction process, i.e., innovation, socio-political context, organization, patient, adopting person, and innovation strategy [ 12, 17].
This new knowledge may influence the product innovation of manufacturing SMEs.
In addition, two-digit industry dummies are included to control for industrial differences that may influence variations in innovation behavior of firms.
This paper presents a simple profitability-based decision model to show how synergistic gains generated by the joint adoption of complementary innovations may influence the firm's adoption decision.
As it has been shown that attitudes of nursing staff about dementia and on the other hand organizational culture may influence the extent to which innovations are executed or may influence the strength of the intervention effect, possible influencing factors and their association with the primary and secondary outcomes will be investigated.
For this integrated model five categories of factors may influence farmers' decision to adopt a given innovation or technology (e.g., Chilonda and van Huylenbroeck 2001; Sodjinou 2011).
Existing frameworks have identified factors that may influence scale-up, 4 7 including features of the innovation, the potential adopters and the environment in which scale-up occurs.
The purpose of this research is to examine innovation and knowledge and how these variables may influence the performance of SMEs in family firms.
Our model included business and IT resources, both internal and external, that may influence the performance of firms which have applied a pervasive IT service innovation: e-commerce.
