This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

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...

Dieses Buch liefert Entscheidern in etablierten Unternehmen die erfolgreichen Silicon-Valley-Methoden, um zusätzlich zu ihren bisherigen Produkten völlig neue, software-basierte Produktinnovationen zu entwickeln und zum Erfolg zu führen. Können Sie sich vorstellen, dass sogar ein...

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...

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...

In den letzten zehn Jahren haben sich die Anzahl von Innovationswettbewerben und der Wert der dabei angebotenen Gewinne bemerkenswert erhöht. Jürgen E. Wenger untersucht, wie Gewinne bei diesen Wettbewerben in der Praxis gestaltet werden. Anhand der Analyse von mehr als 150...