Intelligent agents as innovations

This paper explores the treatment of intelligent agents as innovations. Past writings in the area of intelligent agents focus on the technical merits and internal workings of agent-based solutions. By adopting a perspective on agents from an innovations point of view, a new and novel description of agents is put forth in terms of their degrees of innovativeness, competitive implications, and perceived characteristics. To facilitate this description, a series of innovationbased theoretical models are utilized as a lens of analysis, namely Kleinschmidt and Cooper's (J Prod Innovation Manage 8:240

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: AIS
• Authors: Alexander Serenko, Brian Detlor
• Keywords: AIS 2004, Artificial Intelligence, Competitive Implications, Innovation, Intelligent Agents