Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation Strategy -- Chapter 6. Managing Uncertainty -- Chapter 7....

Einführung -- Warum Innovation -- Randbedingungen für Innovation -- Verknüpfung von Markt und Idee -- Systematik in der Innovationsarbeit -- Identifikation neuer Themen -- Wissensmanagement -- Innovationskultur -- Option Startup -- Zusammenfassung.

This book explores multidimensional issues concerning digital resilience and analyzes how people and organizations maintain, enhance and protect value stemming from digital technologies. Society is now heading for a future in which organizations and people will increasingly depend on digital...

In this empirical analysis Sara Polier investigates forward-looking external search strategies and their impact on the value contribution of corporate foresight. Based on a mixed method approach combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of large, R&D-intensive firms, the findings reveal...

Identification of barriers in the user innovation process -- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems -- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It builds on the theoretical framework on innovation and revisits the Zahra and George (2002) model on absorptive capacity and other related works, such as the open innovation approach...

Sharing information and knowledge, co-innovating with clients, communities, and competitors and adopting cognitive technology, robo advisors, crowdfunding, and blockchain reflect current socio-economic behaviour. Emerging growth regions in Asia, demographic shifts, intergenerational wealth...

Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Overview -- How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Start-ups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation -- Open Innovation Models for Increased Innovation Activities and Enterprise Growth --...

Corporate open innovation initiatives: Taxonomy development and validity test within the German market -- Multiple case studies: Managing and implementing corporate open innovation initiatives -- Development of a taxonomy management framework for corporate open innovation initiatives

Managing Collaborative R&D Projects -- Part I: Literature Reviews -- A Systematic Literature Review of Open Innovation and R&D Managers -- Review of Collaborative Project Management Approaches in R&D Projects -- Part II: Industry Collaborations -- Co-creation of Innovation by Corporates and...