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  1 - Offering a Conceptual Framework to Identify the Right Tools to Formulate Innovation Strategy Using Integrating Innovative Capabilities and Decision Making Methods
  Farhad Shahmiry Naser Amnpour
  Of all the aspects of management of technological innovation (MTI), innovation strategy is the most challenging. Appropriate MTI, leads to value delivery, sustaining competitiveness, profit making, refreshing working environments, maintaining and retaining productive la More

  Of all the aspects of management of technological innovation (MTI), innovation strategy is the most challenging. Appropriate MTI, leads to value delivery, sustaining competitiveness, profit making, refreshing working environments, maintaining and retaining productive labor. Successful MTI occurs solely when a broad set of elements and organizational activities are well managed and integrated within innovation strategy of organization. Firms can be very good at the various activities involved in MTI, such as R&D or operations, but this accounts for little unless it is supported by a well-grounded innovation strategy that guides firms’ choices, prioritizations, and sequences. One of the concepts in the field of innovation strategy is innovative capabilities. Innovative capabilities are defined as bundles and patterns of skills used by firms to formulate and implement an innovation strategy involving the creation, extension, and modification of those resources and skills used for innovation. In each phase of the innovation strategy formulation, different tools may be used. Choosing the right tool depends on various criteria. Some of the criteria are as follows: Is firm new or well established, large or small, centralized or dispersed in its organization, deals in simple or complex products and services, operates within well-defined or uncertain technological and market circumstances, with a major or minor impact on society, safety, and the environment. In the article, using an integrated approach of innovative method and innovative decision-making method based on engineering technical innovation, and innovative capabilities, right tools in each phase of innovative capabilities, which finally leads to strategy formulation, is recognized. Some of the most practical tools are SWOT analysis and Delphi. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Offering a Conceptual Framework for Selecting Innovative and New Product Ideas
  Yaser Ghasemi nejad Farhad Shahmiry
  In modern life, uncertainty situations govern all industries. In today`s life, price changes of essential goods, changes in exchange rate as well as stock price, and generally current economic changes all around the world are the cases by which all organizations are inv More

  In modern life, uncertainty situations govern all industries. In today`s life, price changes of essential goods, changes in exchange rate as well as stock price, and generally current economic changes all around the world are the cases by which all organizations are involved with. Exploring new and innovative product opportunities involves the generation, development, and selection of the best ideas for new products. The fundamental steps include understanding the needs for new products, discovering existing and potential sources of ideas, describing internal and external requirements, and assessing the opportunities. The steps include reflecting on goals and priorities, examining guidelines, evaluating ideas of new product, and selecting candidates for further development. This paper presents a conceptual framework for selecting the best ideas of innovative products. The model represents a framework that is built upon understanding customer needs, determining the critical market-segment requirements and a profile of the target customers, stakeholder assessment and analyzing their goals and strategies, supply-networks management, competition analysis, infrastructure analysis, and ranking of new product ideas. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Managing Innovation with Corporate Approach; A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Korean Firms
  Jafar Bagheri Nejad fahime sadaat Hoseini baharnarenji
  Innovation is the capability of identifying opportunities and using their advantages. These opportunities are not just opening new markets but include the innovative processes and ways for existing markets. Actually, innovation is not just production of goods, and examp More

  Innovation is the capability of identifying opportunities and using their advantages. These opportunities are not just opening new markets but include the innovative processes and ways for existing markets. Actually, innovation is not just production of goods, and examples of innovation can be seen in the service sector and public and private sectors. Innovation intrinsically is a risky project and even developed firms cannot accept infinite risks. In fact, the question is not that if innovation should be done or not, but rather how this innovation can be successful and which feedback could be gained from its success and failure and reaching a pattern that can be applied in future activities. Always the main question has been "whether or not we can control and manage what is known as innovation". At first glance, it might seem that managing innovation is impossible and a complex process. But we believe that despite the uncertain and apparently random-nature of the innovation, it is possible to find an underlying pattern of success. Innovation is a "management" issue because there are decisions to be made about resources, disposition, composition and coordination among them. In this paper after expressing concepts of innovation and managing innovation, a conceptual model and its usage structure is presented in order to concentrate on key aspects of managing innovation. Next, creation and maintenance of an innovative organizational context will be discussed and finally a comparative analysis of managing innovation between Japanese and Korean firms will be reflected. Manuscript profile
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  4 - The Conceptual Model of University Incubators
  Tayebe Nikraftar
  Change and transition is one of the challenges of 21st century. Countries have faced with unanticipated situations because of developing the increasing range of changes so they can not guarantee their survival with small change in manner, structure, technology and so on More

  Change and transition is one of the challenges of 21st century. Countries have faced with unanticipated situations because of developing the increasing range of changes so they can not guarantee their survival with small change in manner, structure, technology and so on. Organizations should start a revolution in their managements and employees mind until the concepts of organization, work and competition basically change in their mind. In this situation we need entrepreneurs that can blow fresh blood in the economic state body through creativity, innovation, stability and self confidence and pacing effective step for solving employment crisis. It is obvious that entrepreneurial university is one of the strategic and key tools for this matter in the higher education level. Entrepreneurship University has made diversity mechanisms such as business incubators, science and technology parks, and entrepreneurship centers and so on for fulfilling their goals. The task of business incubators is to support the university graduates and young entrepreneurs that familiar with new technologies and owning creativity but they are often idle because founding a business by them is not possible without entering a high risk of failure. Business Incubators help these entrepreneurs to pass the primary growth stages and when they acquire the capabilities for activity in market they can leave/graduate the incubator. The concept of business incubator have been reviewed, analysis and habited in our country for some years. The object of this paper is to review the place of university incubators in developing employment and technology transfer. At first we pay attention to relations between the university, incubator and industry. Then we review the role of them in developing and transferring technology and finally we show a conceptual model for University Incubators. Manuscript profile
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  5 - Entrepreneur Universities, National Innovative System and Knowledge-based Development.
  Mehdi Fateh rad Hamidreza Taghiyari
  nowledge-based development as the key element of the countrys 20- year National Vision as well as the fourth Development Plan requires National innovation system (NIS) to facilitate innovations in both macro and micro social levels. The NIS system emerges as functions b More

  nowledge-based development as the key element of the countrys 20- year National Vision as well as the fourth Development Plan requires National innovation system (NIS) to facilitate innovations in both macro and micro social levels. The NIS system emerges as functions based on entrepreneur university as the third generation university to succeed. Therefore, alongside education and research, undergoing big changes of traditional universities and accepting economical development, brings about the conductivity of technological innovations especially in high tech environments. This, in turn, strengthens the NIS foundations providing a proper platform for knowledge-based development. This has many positive and successful examples worldwide regardless of culture or boudndaries. The paper deals with different aspects of this subject. Manuscript profile
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  6 - Effective factors on Innovativeness of Telecommunication in transition towards mobile broadband (MBB); case study mobile industries of Iran
  Bita Kamali Hojatollah Hajhoseini Mahdi Elyasi
  10.7508/jstpi.2015.03.003
  This paper aims to investigate the factors affecting the innovativeness of the telecommunications in transition towards mobile broadband. The methodology is qualitative through a case study approach. Since telecom is one of the key industries in terms of economy and tec More

  This paper aims to investigate the factors affecting the innovativeness of the telecommunications in transition towards mobile broadband. The methodology is qualitative through a case study approach. Since telecom is one of the key industries in terms of economy and technology It can be a driving force behind many of other high-tech industries, The findings of this study may applies for telecommunication industry in general and mobile operators in particular. first a literature review discusses the importance of innovation in the industry And then the factors affecting the innovation modelized within a conceptual framework that includes internal factors such as, 1) the structure of the value chain 2) business model, 3) integration and organizational side, and 4) integration technology (between old and new equipment), and external factors includes, 1) the adoption of technology by the market and 2) regulatory. In order to validate the proposed model, a set of interviews with industry experts has been deployed. Manuscript profile
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  7 - Integration of Customers in Front-End of Innovation (FEI) by Open Innovation Approach: Generation and Selection of Innovative Product Ideas
  Ali Asghar  Molaie Babak Shirazi Javad  Soltanzadeh
  10.7508/jstpi.2016.03.005
  Innovation is a key element for the success of companies in a competitive environment. Innovations begin with innovative ideas that form in the early stages of the innovation process, called the front-end of innovation (FEI). Therefore, to access information from differ More

  Innovation is a key element for the success of companies in a competitive environment. Innovations begin with innovative ideas that form in the early stages of the innovation process, called the front-end of innovation (FEI). Therefore, to access information from different sources, especially external sources, the early activities of the innovation process should be organized as a systematic approach. Customers are as the most important source of innovative ideas in new product process that companies can use them. To benefit from the idea of customers, there needs to be a model for integrating them with internal organization resources. In this paper, a model is presented for integration of customers derived from open innovation paradigm in the FEI based on simultaneous integration of customers, competitors, fringe industries in order to Increase creativity and innovation success. This proposed model is obtained by development of Ulwick’s model that implemented in Agricultural implements industry for “drip irrigation system”. The main objective of this paper is to generate innovative product ideas and then selection of more innovative idea (real and unmet need) of customers in the FEI phase by proposed model, in order to reduce the failure rate of new products in the market. Data were obtained from a survey of 30 customers, as a research sample. The results suggest that opening the FEI phase and the subsequent integration of different customers in this phase, in order to generate innovative ideas, will have a positive impact on the success of the new product. Manuscript profile
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  8 - The Effect of Domain Specific Innovativeness on Exploratory Purchasing Behavior in Innovative Products
  alireza khorakian Mona Kardani malekinezhad Fariborz  Rahimnia
  10.52547/jstpi.20813.16.61.45
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  Innovation in a company is the key to success and survival in a competitive environment. The current study provides insights into management of planning and marketing of innovative technologies such as wearable technology. Businesses with new ideas have to use strategic More

  Innovation in a company is the key to success and survival in a competitive environment. The current study provides insights into management of planning and marketing of innovative technologies such as wearable technology. Businesses with new ideas have to use strategic approaches to identify and effectively communicate with innovators with the goal of successfully launching innovative products such as wearable smart products. They need to comprehand the importance of modernizers as crucial determinants of the adoption of smart wearable products. Therefore, The present research investigates the effects of innovativeness to a specific domain on exploratory purchasing behavior of the consumers of innovative products. The research method is analytical-survey, and its statistical population is the consumers of smart wearable products in Mashhad. A questionnaire was used to collect the initial data. Using the appropriate formulas, the sample size was determined 390. After gathering data, research hypotheses were analyzed using structural equation modeling and Amos software. The results of the research show that domain specific innovativeness has a positive and significant effect on the exploration purchasing behavior of smart wearable products, and all four hypotheses are confirmed. Finally, suggestions are also presented based on the results. Manuscript profile