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Exploration and Project Management
Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789012
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Value indicators and monitoring in innovative PDM: A grounded approach
Hooge, Sophie; Hatchuel, Armand - HAL - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548430
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Virtual Teams for New Product Development: An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820792
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2010
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820853
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Creating Products in the Absence of Markets: A Robust Design Approach
Midler, Christophe; Silberzahn, Philippe - HAL - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789203
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NPD Projects in Search of Top Management Support : The Role of Team Leader Social Capital
Chollet, Barthelemy; Brion, Sébastien; Chauvet, Vincent; … - HAL - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026089
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Learning from innovation echoes in mature organizations - The case of the automotive industry
Hooge, Sophie; Dalmasso, Cédric - HAL - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548428
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GESTÃO DE INOVAÇÃO: COMPARAÇÃO DE DUAS REALIDADES DISTINTAS - UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE SANTA CRUZ (ILHÉUS, BAHIA) E UNIVERSIDADE DE LA ROCHELLE (FRANÇA)
Holanda, Fabiana Carneiro Silva De; Segundo, Gesil … - HAL - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721441
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A contingency approach of open innovation intermediaries - the management principles of the "intermediary of the unknown"
Agogué, Marine; Berthet, Elsa; Fredberg, Tobias; … - HAL - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820531
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Crossing innovation and product projects management: comparative analysis in the automotive industry.
Beaume, Romain; Maniak, Rémi; Midler, Christophe - HAL - 2009
during the1990s. For those firms, innovation management no longer deals with introducing radically and totally new products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789648