The existing literature on open innovation strongly emphasizes on the organizational level, while neglecting the people …

our study, we compare the costs and benefits of two open innovation tools for identifying social innovation: an innovation … contest and the lead user method. An innovation contest is a challenge among participants, who submit potential solutions to a … innovators who have already developed solutions for their own needs or those of their peers. While innovation contests have seen …

Our study focuses on the question, whether users should be intensively involved in the innovation process of radical … question arises, whether users play a productive role in the innovation process of radical innovations at all, or if their … contributions might even be counterproductive. To gain a better understanding for the users' role in radical innovation and to …

28 innovation projects in German and Japanese companies. We further reveal differences in the practice of innovation …

specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the "globalization of innovation". Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. -- Research and Development ; R …&D ; Internationalization ; Globalization ; Innovation …

address various managerial issues concerning discontinuous technologies and radical innovation in the early phase of strategic … decision-making. In three in-depth case studies how companies proceeded with discontinuous technology and radical innovation … differentiated strategic management of radical innovation and incremental innovation. The propositions are transformed into a …