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Purpose – In offering a critical account of project‐based innovation projects, this paper aims to assess the creation … appropriate knowledge where crisis events disrupt and jeopardise the social relations between the members of the innovation … communication. Originality/value – This paper offers a critical account of knowledge management and innovation. It stands in …
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Continued innovation of products, services, technology and the organization itself, is one way to keep a business on … its feet during these turbulent times. The importance of innovation – the process during which leap‐changes are effected … – is generally recognized. However, in practice, the successful conclusion of a total innovation project is by no means …
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A product is more likely to be successfully developed and marketed when the “upfront or fuzzy front‐end (FFE)” activities are understood and carefully managed. A framework is developed to illuminate several factors affecting FFE performance. Using this framework, several strategic issues...
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innovation process; and in innovation projects showing different degrees of radicalness. Moreover, it aims to discuss the … influence exerted by some contextual variables. Design/methodology/approach – Case studies concerning four innovation projects … were conducted. Findings – It is found that radical innovation projects, especially in the early stages of development, are …
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of internal coordination capability on supplier involvement. Design/methodology/approach – Hypothesized relationships are tested using confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical linear regression models. Findings – It was found that...
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Purpose – A large number of methodologies for R&D project selection have been developed and reported in the literature over the last few decades, and it has become a very popular research topic since the 1960s. The aim of this paper is to classify and characterize the determining aspects...
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the relationship between the types of R&D‐activities within science‐based firms and the knowledge transfer channels used for industry‐science collaboration. Rooted in a contingency approach, it seeks to identify patterns in the organization of...
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‐sized enterprise's (SME's) pursuit for corporate sustainability with a focus on eco‐innovation. The research identifies drivers and … barriers for eco‐innovation, and highlights effects induced through collaboration between SMEs and local authorities, on the … found that SMEs may need facilitation for eco‐innovation from different types of intermediaries (public and private) with …
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Focuses on product advantage, a major contributing factor to new product performance, by examining the launch strategies associated with high and low levels of product advantage. Views a launch strategy as integrating protocol decisions, which have steered the course of a product’s development...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for understanding how problem formulation, information search and division of work in new product development (NPD) activities is shaped by mind sets vested in organizations with diverging positions in the value chain and...
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