This research deals with the process of business model innovation in services. Definitions and explanations of both … general innovation terminologies as well as specific service related once will be given and discussed. Moreover, reasons and …

innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …

Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …

In a longitudinal real time case study over 14 months, we follow the process of radical innovation in an incumbent … management support and the process of innovation are interrupted, lower level employees' action can have a defining impact of the … innovation within a firm. Emerging from the qualitative grounded analysis we thus formalize these actions undertaken in a radical …

We examine how teams working on radical innovation develop a novel type of absorptive capacity (AC) to make use of … external knowledge. In the setting of the semiconductor industry we compare AC in incremental innovation and AC in radical … innovation, relying on the most recent theory of design reasoning. We are led to propose a framework of how radical innovation …

In competitive industries, intensive and repeated innovation is a recognized necessity (Wheelwright and Clark, 1992; Le … Masson et al., 2010). Literature on innovation (Utterback, 1994; Henderson & Clark, 1990) distinguishes Dominant Design … revisions (radical innovations) from local improvements (incremental innovations). Regarding the innovation process management …

Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and …, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

can they manage and drive collective innovation? We first build on a review of the literature to highlight common core … innovation intermediaries by exploring the properties of a form of intermediary for which the degree of unknown is a key …