The book presents an avant-garde and interdisciplinary technical-entrepreneurial approach for ensuring sustainability by bringing a Systems Engineering (SE) novel mechanism applied to telemedicine context making use of space technologies into the light. The distinctive theory from herein...

Economic Factor Innovations -- Business Transformation -- Strategy and Positioning -- Processes and Roles -- Organizational Structures -- Personnel and Abilities -- Systems and Tools -- Corporate Governance and Control of Innovation Process.

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

Florian Denker explores the role of an individual’s domain knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of early-stage new product ideas should...

What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in...

How Path Dependency Affects Innovative Behavior of Firms -- Factors Affecting the Performance of New Product Development Teams: Some European Evidence -- Knowledge Flows in an NPD Team from the Semiconductor Industry -- Strategies for Fostering Local New Service Development Teams in CapGemini...

Developed and developing economies alike face increased resource scarcity and competitive rivalry. In this context, science and technology appear as an essential source of competitive and sustainable advantage at national and regional levels. However, the key determinant of their efficacy is the...

Die Beiträge bieten einen Überblick über ausgewählte Ergebnisse des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Open Innovation in Life Sciences“. Das Projekt wurde von Mai 2008 bis Mai 2011 an der Universität Potsdam durchgeführt. Der Schwerpunkt...