In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in …

Strong market orientation is essential for innovation success!” Although both academics and market research … innovation strategies. Due to their focus on what is currently on offer in the marketplace, customers primarily demand so … research can alone allow innovation management to develop attractive search fields for radical innovations and if it can also …

, and managers often indicate the front end as being one of the greatest weaknesses in product innovation. Therefore, it is … surprising that only little research has treated the so called "fuzzy front end" of innovation. In this paper we discuss if …

.g. universities). They aim to support open innovation, respectively facilitate more economicallytechnology and particularly IP …

Innovations have acquired a key-role in the growth and competition strategies of firms in today’s globalized world … specialized R&D institutions. This public-private partnership seems particularly useful in the early phases of innovation … phases of innovation (idea generation, evaluation and selection) to increase the innovative capability of firms in a given …

importance for radical innovation significantlydetermines both, choice of users integrated as well as choice of integration …

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the … software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a … the literature, we conclude that it is an innovation model in its own right, deserving more attention and research. We …