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	Title:	E-innovation: an emerging platform for a networked economy
	Author:	Ping Lan
	Address:	School of Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 209A Bunnell Building, PO Box 756080, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6080, USA
	Journal:	International Journal of Electronic Business 2004 - Vol. 2, No.1  pp. 93 - 107
	Abstract:	This paper aims to examine the changes to innovation brought about by the internet, and paints an overall picture about e-innovation. Based on a systematic survey of the current efforts made by industry and academia in using the term of e-innovation and in promoting the concept of e-innovation, it found that e-innovation is expanding traditional innovation in two aspects: application of innovation and delivery of innovation. These expansions are leading e-innovation to become a new platform, which is characterised by five Ds: digital form, distributed nature, decoupling activities, dedication to channel change, and deployment of different rules. To develop further the platform, six barriers have to be overcome.
	Keywords:	e-innovation; industrial usage; academic research; two orientations; an emerging platform; 5 Ds; internet; innovation.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJEB.2004.004561
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