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Innovation combining art, engineering and social-economy science

This paper presents two aspects of innovation for companies that fall into the class of 'solution providers'. The paper first provides a quantitative analysis of what drives the professional's perception of an innovative company.Data from an...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Iain Bitran

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

May 10, 2006

What drives innovation?

An effort to understand innovation drivers - those factors that motivate and shape innovation efforts, and determine their success or failure - seemed to be a promising way to discover what factors make for success and failure in innovation.The...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Leyla Namiranian, Gwen Smith Ishmael, Renee Hopkins Callahan

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

May 10, 2006

How to tell snake oil from white elephants from real innovation in market research

This paper reviews the history of innovation and mistakes in order to use the power of hindsight to improve foresight, in particular to improve the chances of spotting whether a new idea is powerful piece of innovation or an expensive folly.

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Ray Poynter

May 10, 2006

Decoding innovation

What is innovation? How can it be researched? Semiotics views innovation as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon. It offers a chance to identify what innovation means to its users and to consumers; how they know it when they see it; how they agree on...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Author: Rachel Lawes

May 10, 2006

How ethnic media is researched in the UK

UK media and marketers have been slow to react the growing ethnic population in the UK. No representative measurement exists on any media currency and few advertisers address this audience and ethnic media exclusively.Whilst large scale qualitative...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Denh Dip

May 8, 2006

Are we deliberately turning away from global diversity and true innovation?

Need based segmentations are based on psychological needs or motives present in every one of us.The more fundamental these needs are, the more they can be considered universal: the need for status is present in every culture, as is the need to belong...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Authors: Philip De Wulf, Emmanuel Verhagen

Company: Ipsos MRBI

May 8, 2006

Branding national assets amidst global diversity

Globalization trends and regional integration in Latin America have brought major pressure to define which national assets are unique and, therefore, how a country, its people and its economic profile can be characterized in order to ensure...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Authors: Fabián Echegaray, Leonardo Athias

Company: Market Analysis

May 8, 2006

It's no more them and us- It's only us!

While the media focuses on the negatives of immigration, consumers react in predictable ways, blaming immigrants for many of the ills of European society. Nonetheless immigration is essential to Europe's future economy and its fundamental...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Nic Hall

May 8, 2006

Unravelling the diversity of the Indian market

India is, unequivocally, a diverse country. This paper takes a geographic zonal approach to unravel India's diversity because it serves as the most actionable way of studying the market, since most marketing action (i.e. media or distribution) can be...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Author: Sangeeta Gupta

Company: Nielsen

May 8, 2006