Supply chain agility has been receiving a lot of attention in recent literature as a way for organizations to become more responsive to change and improve customer service levels. However, agility is typically dealt with qualitatively, and organizations are usually unsure of the steps to take to...

Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge networks on a global scale. However, there is not much insight into the factors that shape knowledge...

This paper aims to emphasize the gaps between the cultural profiles of high-tech companies from Japan, Romania, Tunisia and Turkey in the context of open innovation approach. The goal is to assess the cultural profiles of the firms included in the sample, by determining a percentage distribution...

The key items of the open innovation concept are highlighted. The ways of using open innovation concept in Ukraine are analyzed and main directions of its implementation are defined.

Many firms have mastered new product development and sustaining innovation by applying well-established methodologies such as the Stage-Gate model. But radical innovations may possess distinctive characteristics that overwhelm the capabilities of Stage-Gate: dependence on unpredictable...

Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result...

<i>Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development</i> goes beyond the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of opportunities that firms may have in innovation and new business development with external actors. This book shows readers that firms can interact, innovate, and do...

<i>Workbook for Opening Innovation ¡ª Bridging Networked Business, Intellectual Property and Contracting</i> focuses on the implementation of phenomena, theories and ideas presented in the book <i>Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development ¡ª Bridging Networked Innovation, Intellectual...</i>

В условиях мирового кризиса происходит переход от системы закрытых инноваций к открытым, предполагающим использование внешних технологий через процесс...

Рассмотрены основные положения концепции открытых инноваций. Обоснованы возможности использования концепции открытых инноваций у условиях украинской...