Increasingly, the creativity and innovation potentials are becoming key factors for IT companies on an ever growing market, The Danish IT companies appear to have a strong base for competing with the rest of the world however it is clear that the companies have difficulties in managing their...

Innovation research and organizational practice often focuses on R&D investments and activitiescarried out in designated departments and controlled processes. Anecdotal evidence tells us,however, that this centralized and formalistic approach to innovation is often insufficient. Asignificant...

Increaingly, the creativity and innovation potentials are becoming key factors for IT companies on an ever growing market, The Danish IT companies appear to have a strong base for competing with the rest of the world however it is clear that the companies have difficulties in managing their...

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators about the quality of submissions. In this paper, we use design contests allowing repeated entry to examine the effect of in-process...

Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests...

Purpose - The key question addressed in the paper is whether creativity fostering methods increase innovation output in Croatian firms. Design/methodology/approach - By utilizing the Community Innovation Survey 2010 data and propensity score matching methods, we estimate the average treatment...

Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnitude of uncertainty and risk. The successful technology entrepreneur (term of art for...