The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent and comprehensive literature review is lacking. In this paper we contribute to a clarification of the concept “green innovation” and provide an overview of the existing body...

In the emergence of a pro-patent and intellectual capital era the management of Intellectual Property (IP) is currently undergoing major changes. IP management systems are becoming increasingly complex and strategic in handling an integrated portfolio of IPRs and intellectual assets rather than...

Within this paper we explore transition paths firms can take to become product service system (PSS) innovators. Applying the dynamic capability approach we study how three firms have developed PSS innovations in the mobility sector (Car2Go by Daimler AG, Connect by Hertz by The Hertz...

The importance of design for the success of product innovations has caught increasing attention of scholars lately (Rindova and Petkova, 2007, Verganti, 2008). Previous research is related to user-centered design (Brown, 2008, Veryzer and Borja de Mozota, 2005a), design contribution to NPD...

So far the academic community has drawn little attention to leadership functionsin technology management. The CTO – the Chief Technology Officer – is such a leadership function expected to combine technology and management issues. This paper analyses how the CTO is understood by corporations...

On the markets for technology (MfT) we currently observe a sizable growth, observe that firms still face immanent transaction obstacles and the emergence of technology market intermediaries (TMI). Why TMIs emerge and how they attempt to facilitate transactions however is not yet sufficiently...

Prior research on user innovation has concentrated on markets in which products (e.g., mountain bikes, kitesurfing equipment, tools, etc.) are typically purchased by those users who modify them. However, in numerous markets, this is not the case, for example, those in which equipment is rented....

With this paper we aim to contribute to the discussion about the difficulties that occur when trading technicalknowledge and particularly patents. Currently one can observe that markets for technology have been sizablegrowing, transaction obstacles are still immanent and technology market...

The rapid progress of electronic technology in recent decades has led to an increased technicalcomplexity and wide functionality of many products. As a result man-machine interfaces,such as displays became more and more important, wherefore investments and technicalprogress in these technologies...

This paper presents a literature review discussing empirical as well as conceptual papersconcerning the CTO – the Chief Technology Officer – his tasks, responsibilitiesand authority and his relations with other corporate functions. It further presents firstresults of a CTO survey conducted...