Title: Three new features of innovation brought about by information and communication technology

Authors: Ping Lan

Addresses: School of Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 775-6080, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

Abstract: This paper aims to examine the changes to innovation brought about by the internet. Based on a systematic survey on the current efforts made by industry and academia in expanding the frontier of innovation, it found that e-innovation – add-on or collective changes to innovation brought about by Information and Communication Technology – is expanding traditional innovation in three aspects: 1) having an obvious tendency to software development and application, 2) encouraging a distributed delivery, and 3) deploying different managing/operating rules and toolkits. These expansions are leading e-innovation to become a new paradigm for carrying out creative activities.

Keywords: e-innovation; software-based outlets; distributed delivery; integrated toolkits; ICT; information technology; communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2004.004782

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2004 Vol.3 No.1, pp.3 - 19

Published online: 07 Jul 2004 *

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