This book aims to bind together latest theories on creation of innovative clusters and operating modalities, empirical analysis, and several new formal models describing cluster formation and dynamics. Another objective of the book is the analysis of the role of the innovative activities on the...

Nils Levsen focuses on the international diffusion of product and service innovations for elderly users. In particular, the existence and location of lead markets is being investigated. Lead markets are characterized by their early adoption of innovations and their influence on design choice in...

Based on interviews with R&D managers and a survey amongst R&D employees, Verena Nedon shows that perceived social pressure has an immense impact on R&D employees working in OI-projects. Employees’ attitude (regardless of whether positive or negative) and perceived behavioral control play an...

This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) − the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful. The authors use several examples of disruptive innovations for this market, particularly in the...

Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...

The Challenge of Innovation and Technology for Korea as a Newly Advanced Economy Revisited -- Moving to the innovation frontier: Lessons from the OECD Review of Korean Innovation Policy -- Korea’s New Techno-Scientific Strategy: Realigning State, Market and Society to Move beyond Technological...

This book summarizes the results of the second year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. The authors have taken a closer look at the issue of co-creation from different points-of-view. The concept of...

Unternehmen bedienen sich vermehrt externer Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten. Eine Quelle externen technologischen Wissens ist die Vertragsforschung. Diese entgeltliche Übernahme von F&E-Aufgaben für externe Auftraggeber wurde bislang kaum untersucht. Nach einer systematischen Ordnung...

Das Anwendungsfeld Biotechnologie ist prädestiniert für innovative Unternehmensgründungen. Allerdings müssen kreative Ideen und Gründungselan durch die wirtschaftliche Absicherung der jungen Unternehmung ergänzt werden. Der hierzu notwendige Etablierungsprozess blieb jedoch bisher in der...