The book explores different approaches towards the ‘entrepreneurial university’ paradigm, explores channels and mechanism used by universities to implement the paradigm and contributes to the public discussion on the impact of commercialization on university research and knowledge. It argues...

Part 1 Big Tree with Thick Trunk and its Fruits -- 1 Research Aim and Framework -- 2 Theoretical Background: General Purpose Technology, Pattern of Innovation, and Spin-out -- 3 Data -- 4 Technological Characteristics of Laser and Laser Diode -- Part 2 R&D and Market Competition of Laser Diodes...

Modelle und Typen: Welche Motive zur Spin-off-Gründung sind zu unterscheiden? Welche Grade der Selbstständigkeit von Spin-offs sind denkbar? -- Prozess und Phasen: Wie läuft die Ausgründung ab? Welche Meilensteine gibt es? -- Erfolgsfaktoren und Rahmenbedingungen: Was sollte man tun? Worauf...

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

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Research Design and Methodology -- Case Descriptions of the studied Communities of Practice -- CoPs as Enabler of Organizational Knowledge Creation -- CoPs as Loci of Collective Lead Userness -- CoPs as an Enhancement of Organizations’ Innovative...

Part I -- Building A Shared Present and Future: Learnings from Henry Ford and Albert Kahn’s Co-Wuity Collaborative Innovation Network on the Moving Assembly Line and Mass Production -- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is Leaving of Them All - Predictions for Employee Turnover with Gated...

Subsidized R&D collaboration: The effect of innovation vouchers on innovation activity and performance -- Choking under pressure: The effect of asymmetric contests on effort, stress and performance -- Performance in contests: The role of risk and confidence.