innovation’ as the primary goal where firms must create consumer demand and exploit untapped markets. Empirical analysis has been …

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the … most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed … management of the innovation process and the organisation of system innovation. Research findings show how companies can improve …

Eindhoven, and Uppsala University (Sweden). His research is focused on the role of suppliers in product innovation and has been …

This paper examines the effect of innovation on the risk of exit of a firm, distinguishing between different modes of … exits. Innovation represents a resource and a capability that helps a firm to build competitive advantage and remain in the … empirically by linking data on innovation and exits for a large sample of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The results show …

paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that …

This article studies density and strength of ties in innovation networks. It combines issues of ‘competence’ with …

-level variables (i.e. national culture) to explain differences in innovation penetration levels and adoption decisions by companies … have a strong, significant influence on the innovation penetration and adoption. In addition, we find adoption models … including micro-, meso- and macro-level variables to perform significantly better in explaining innovation adoption across …