organizational factors that affect firms’ ability to manage innovation this paper asks which innovation processes and entrepreneurial … 2014 mapping companies’ approach to innovation management during the last 10 years. After surveying 102 firms in the first … importance of corporate strategic orientation, highly developed innovation processes and parallel mechanisms for radical …

externally through open innovation is a possible approach to go beyond the internal development of innovations. One practice of … open innovation to assimilate external knowledge is corporate venture capital (CVC), meaning minority investments in … approach to engage in open innovation practices, since it allows one to pursue a range of different strategic objectives …

specialized commercialization capabilities. According to the predominant framework, if the innovation is protected by a strong … appropriabilty regime the optimal strategy is to license the innovation to an incumbent product firm. This paper argues by contrast … commercialize alone or to pursue a hybrid arrangement (called co-promotion) whereby it licenses the innovation but retains the …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …