现代包装设计中关于中国传统图形的应用

现代设计中对传统图形的再创造的应用,不是简单符号的复制,而是对传统图形的延意和传神。新的技术、新的观念与思维方式的导入,为传统图形在包装设计中的运用提供了更多的思考角度和设计空间。     

国际旅游岛建设呼唤文化创新

为加快推进文化改革发展,助力国际旅游岛建设,海南省文化改革发展工作会议对海南新一轮文化改革发展作出战略部署,其中的一个重要议题就是积极进行文化创新。为此,文章从四个方面提出了如何积极地进行文化创新,才能充分体现时代要求,更好地实施海南新一轮文化改革发展的战略部署。     

基于密切值模型的中部六省科技创新能力评价

运用密切值法从科技投入与产出两方面对中部六省的科技创新能力进行评价,根据评价结果针对各省的情况提出建议,为决策者提供决策依据。     

Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study

Abstract

New sources of finance within the label of ‘impact investing’ have emerged as mechanisms to promote entrepreneurship within marginalized communities. Different vehicles for impact investment have emerged over the years; however, our understanding around their emergence, configuration and adoption is limited. Hence, the main purpose in this research is to study the role of the contextual drivers and conditions that gave rise to a unique form of impact investment in India, a financial social innovation – developmental venture capital (DVC). Through the lens of capital theories, insights from the case of India’s largest and oldest DVC firm along with three of its most prominent investees are presented. Findings highlight that the social entrepreneurs behind the case DVC wholly re-conceptualized silicon valley-style venture capital financing to suit small brick and mortar investments in rural India, developed mechanisms for deploying funding frugally, and created partnerships of equals between themselves and their investees. Investee founders leveraged human and social capital throughout the social innovation process via deep immersion in the socio-cultural milieu of India.     

The combined impact of managerial and relational capabilities on innovation in firms

In this paper, a survey of more than 1600 firms in the five largest city regions of Norway is described in order to examine how a firm's innovative capacity is affected by three types of factors: factors related to the manager, the structure of the firm and the broader geographical location. By combining perspectives from the fields of management and economic geography in a logistic regression analysis, we find that the two key drivers of firm-level innovation in Norway are the presence of open-minded managers and evidence of collaboration with international partners. Moreover, these two factors are mutually reinforcing, as firms with open-minded managers also tend to engage more with international partners and vice versa.     

Innovation,external technical linkages and small firm commercial performance: an empirical analysis from Western New York

This paper examines the role of external service linkages in the innovation and market peformance of small manufacturing firms (SMFs). Survey data from a technological cross-section of 146 Western New York SMFs are summarized. The data suggest a helpful role for consultants in the product development efforts of innovative firms, especially those that serve foreign export markets. Several multiple discriminant models are presented, each of which suggests an interactive connection between SMF commercial performance, externa) technical links, innovation propensity and in-house R&D. It is argued that innovative SMFs that exploit specialized technical services perform significantly better than comparably sized firms that rely solely on in-house resources. It is also argued that the quality of a region's producer service environment may have a significant bearing on the growth potential of its SMF population. The paper concludes by discussing the main academic and public policy implications that flow from the empirical results.     

A policy perspective on incremental innovation in small and medium sized enterprises

The increased importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in industrial economies is explained and the very large variance in their degree of participation in the innovation process is established. Evidence from Canadian research clarifies the difficulties that smidl and medium sized firms, even in technology intensive industries, experience in developing new products and implementing new designs. Innovation theory is reviewed and the importance of inputs from specialist consultants is established for SMEs undertaking incremental innovation. Transaction costs concepts are then used to explain the difficulties SMEs encounter in arranging these linkages. A recommended form of policy to help to correct this type of market imperfection is derived and used to describe a gap in Canadian policies and to evaluate initiatives in Australia and UK.     

Strategic paradigms as a frame of explanation of innovations: a theoretical synthesis

Innovation has mainly been analysed as a rather narrow phenomenon. This has been an obstacle to a more operationally useful understanding of innovation processes. Two main approaches to explain innovation exist, namely economic innovation theory and the theory of entrepreneurship. Both are criticized in the article, the economic innovation theory for being based on a technological reductionism, the entrepreneurship theory for being based on an individualistic determinism. The two theories have not been coordinated to form a more comprehensive synthesis. The concept of technological paradigm within the economic innovation theory and the concept of entrepreneurial networks within the entrepreneurship theory mark some improvement in establishing a broader understanding of innovation, but have not yet been synthesized. The idea of paradigms is used in the article for a broader, synthesizing conception of innovations as being determined by shifts in strategic paradigms. A theoretical model of factors causing shifts in the strategic paradigm is set up.     

营建区域创新体系 推动我国资源型城市(地区)转型

营建创新体系是解决我国资源型城市(地区)转型所面临问题的有效途径。区域创新体系可以从转型的力量和转型的基础两个角度,资源流入环境、企业发展、产业结构、资源利用率、资源型城市(地区)发展周期等五个侧面,有效推动我国资源型城市(地区)的转型。     

技术创新与中国对外贸易增长方式转变的关系及对策研究

改革开放以来,中国对外贸易取得了飞跃式发展,并成为带动国民经济增长的一支重要力量.但是,必须指出的是,中国对外贸易高速增长依旧是建立在劳动和资源比较优势上面,而这种竞争优势,随着世界经济、科技等形势的发展变化正日益受到挑战.中国对外贸易要在激烈的国际竞争中赢得主动和实现持续稳定发展,就必须调整贸易发展模式,把促进科技进步和创新作为对外贸易发展的关键环节,带动整个对外贸易竞争力的显著跃升.