Innovation can breathe new life into slowing stagnant markets, and act as a mechanism to enhance any organisation’s ability to adapt to changing environments (Damanpour and Gopalakrishnan, 1998, Hargadon and Sutton, 2000). Both innovation policies and theory have mainly focused on the business sector (Lekhi, 2007). Businesses need to innovate in order to keep up with competition by introducing new products or services, improving the efficiency of their production processes and organisational arrangements, or enhancing the marketing of their activities in order to guarantee their survival.