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

  • Authors:
  • Ping Lan

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

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Technology and Management
  • Year:
  • 2004

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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.