Decision makers find creating an innovation portfolio challenging, because more innovative projects are associated with a higher degree of uncertainty. In this study, we investigate the potential benefits of applying real options reasoning (ROR) in innovation portfolio management from an...

Innovation project portfolio management (IPPM) is a key task in R&D management because this decision-making process determines which R&D projects should be undertaken and how R&D resources are allocated. Previous research has developed a good understanding of the role of IPPM in R&D strategy...

Employees' innovative behaviour becomes increasingly important for organizational success. Companies try to improve their innovation capabilities by supporting and motivating employees to show innovative behaviour. Particularly online ideation platforms become relevant because they create new...

Creative industries contain paradoxes because conflicting tensions arise between the market and the arts. Entrepreneurs need to find and maintain a balance between those two sides to create innovation. This study tests the interaction between business and creative orientations of a founder in...

University-industry collaboration (UIC) partners’ different organizational backgrounds entail socialization with distinct thought worlds, management approaches, and therefore diverging goals, which may lead to differences in their perceptions of the R&D challenge. These differences can hamper...

Intellectual property (IP) ownership aggressiveness constitutes an organization's strategic stance that prioritizes its IP protection. An organization thus pursues a rigid approach to protect its background IP and strives for exclusive ownership of the foreground IP that results from...

The transaotion of a oomplex innovative oapital good between a seller and a buyer Organization is seen as a oomplex task being oomposed of two important subtasks: the development of a problem Solution whioh is to be implemented into the buyer Organisation, and the management of...

Was sind Führungsentscheidungen? Welche Eigenschaften müssen Entscheidungen aufweisen, um auf die Tagesordnung einer Sitzung der Geschäftsleitung zu gelangen? Welche Typen von Entscheidungen sind vom Führungsgremium einer Unternehmung zu treffen? Wie könnte ein typgerechtes Mix von...