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innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the … improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue that, in line with the work on project classification, a distinction …
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Long-term success of firms depends on the efficiency of their management of R&D projects. However, there is a gap between standard economic and strategic indicators and the high uncertainty, complexity of commitments, and organizational issues that can be observed in the more innovative R&D...
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A number of studies have found that the performance of NPD projects greatly depends on the support they get from top management. However, research into why some projects get more support than others has been limited. The present paper takes a political approach to NPD, in which top management...
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explains how virtual R&D team can play a prominent role in developing new products. The article is evolved future study … guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process … importance, but the issue has been poorly addressed in the previous studies. Findings show that virtual R&D team provides …
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and relevance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R&D team for SMEs and new product development (NPD) has … research in this area. It is argued to form of virtual R&D team deserves consideration at top level management for venturing …
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine how firms deal with a situation of true uncertainty about their potential markets and technologies. Specifically, we ask how firms can create products when the corresponding market does not exist. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is...
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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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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 …
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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 …
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concepts, for other fields but design innovation. We propose the structuring of this model using the "design objects" notion …
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