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...

Das Umfeld von Unternehmen ist heute ständigen Veränderungen unterworfen: neue Kundenanforderungen, neue Produkte, zunehmender Wettbewerb, neue IT-Lösungen wie EAI oder Webservices, Outsourcing oder auch veränderte rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen sind nur einige der Faktoren. Unternehmen...

Die Sichtweise, daß Neuerungen für Fortbestand und positive Entwicklung von Unternehmungen notwendig und bedeutend sind, läßt sich bis zum Anfang des Jahrhunderts zurückführen. Bisher vertrat man in Forschung und Praxis jedoch weitgehend die Auffassung, daß Innovationsvorhaben einerseits...

Gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt der mit der Innovationsproblematik befaßten Literatur ist zum einen die Einsicht in die wettbewerbsstrategische Bedeutung von Neuerungen für Untemehmenserfolge. Zum anderen ist es die Erkenntnis, daß im Zusammenhang von Innovationsprozessen typischerweise...