First and foremost, innovation is driven by people. These people have specific personal characteristics and fulfil … designated roles in innovation management. We have conducted an empirical study among 190 employees in R&D departments of mature … international firms from four different countries (Germany, U.S.A., Great Britain and Switzerland) currently working on innovation …

an organization is an important, if understudied aspect of the innovation process. Based on an interactional perspective …, widely used in creativity and innovation studies, this paper examines the influence of both contextual and individual …

reports a case study on customer-driven business model innovation. The resulting four-phase process framework is based on …

resources — product, operations, and marketing sources of ideas — as they relate to innovation and firm performance. Prior … studies founded upon the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm, have focused on the relationship between innovation and firm … ideas, as valuable strategic firm resources, directly, and/or indirectly via innovation activities, contribute to firm …

comprehensive way. Such a tool is useful for obtaining an overall view of the working logic of the firm and to facilitate innovation …

the growth from an innovation perspective. It was concluded that, besides growing, the highest growing companies also …

be more competitive. At the same time, performing innovation is not an easy task, it is a process that requires … tremendous effort and changes in several parts of business.The number of studies on innovation has increased. Different aspects … of innovation from theoretical and practical points of views have been studied so far. This study aims to investigate the …

as a potential innovation is the norms of the SME owner/manager, irrespective of the country. …