Even though Ghana has made efforts to bridge the digital divide (Koria et al. 2012), ICT infrastructure, such as internet access, storage capacity and processing capability, needs to be prioritised in government budgetary expenditures, since economy-wide innovativeness and innovation is extremely difficult to attain without threshold levels in skills and ICT capability and capacity.
In addition to examining general tendency to adopt innovation (i.e., innate innovativeness), this study adopted the scale for motivated consumer innovativeness (MCI) which was introduced by Vandecasteele and Geunes (2010) to measure different aspects of innate innovativeness.
What if formal innovation training actually improved firm-level innovativeness?
These high innovative people may be more concerned about the "innovativeness" rather than the "practicality" about a new technology.
Agarwal and Prasad [ 68] asserted that personal innovativeness is important when investigating the acceptance of innovative technology.
Outside directors from non-innovative firms are negatively associated with the appointing firm's innovativeness.
Using resourcefulness (innovativeness) and alertness (proactive discovery), an international entrepreneur is more likely to draw on a wide range of resources and opportunities that are embedded in the domestic or foreign markets that they have already entered.
In particular, the results of hierarchical relationships among personal values, innate innovativeness, fashion leadership, and fashion innovativeness shed light on the diffusion of innovation.
In this spirit, a gaggle of measures have cropped up to compare innovativeness among nations.
Japan has the potential to extend its demonstrated innovativeness to the service sector.
"His innovativeness hasn't always been to his financial benefit," concedes his business manager.
