文档介绍：Technovation 26 (2006) 561–572
ate/technovation
An integrated innovation process model based on practices
of Australian biotechnology firms
Boaz Bernsteina,1,*, Prakash J. Singhb
aSchool of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
bDepartment of Management, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia
Abstract
An integrated approach to managing the innovation process is attractive anizations for many reasons. However, there is a relative
paucity of models that describe this approach. In this paper, an attempt is made to produce one such model. Based on a multiple case study
design involving nine panies and one peak industry body from Australia, a conceptual model is proposed that has the
linear stage process model as the backbone. The twin mechanisms of market pull and technology push are incorporated within the model,
with a set of anizational constructs (management, communication, structure and control) embedded within these mechanisms.
Overall, the results of this study improve our understanding of the innovation process by building a prehensive and integrated
conceptual model.
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Keywords: Innovation process model; Biotechnology; Organizational constructs; Technology push; Market pull
1. Introduction practice in the area, with the view to, inter alia, better
understand the interaction between anization
Being innovative has e one of the most important activities, sequence of activities in the innovation
factors anizations in sustaining petitiveness process, market and environmental influences, and
(Tidd et al., 2002). This has been widely recognized by managerial issues affecting the ability panies to
scholars in the field, yet the vast and diverse research in the innovate (Cooper, 1998; Frambach, 1993; Rothwell,
area is still fragmented and inconsistent (Edwards, 2000; 1994). There appears to be broad agreement that a
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