Unternehmen, die Produkte der nächsten Generation entwickeln, stehen oft vor folgendem Problem: Orientieren sie ihre Entwicklung zu stark an den heutigen Kunden und Anwendern, resultieren oft nur kleine Innovationen (inkrementale Innovation). Lösen Sie sich hingegen von diesen Anwendern,...

The Finnish Presidency will launch a European Network of Living Labs on November 21, 2006. This is the first step towards a New European Innovation System (EIS). There is an urgent need to improve European-wide aspiration for innovation towards job creation and growth. There is also an urgent...

Статья посвящена проблемам повышения конкурентоспособности научно-промышленного комплекса в условиях транзитивной экономики. Обоснована актуальность...

Using a within-subject experiment, we compare hypothetical andreal willingness to pay (WTP) for an improvement in therecyclability of a product. Subjects are faced with a real paymentscenario after they have responded to a hypothetical question.Contrary to most of the results obtained in similar...

Cultural innovation implies revenue potential and has gained much academic and practical attention. In this study we explore the case of Yingge craft industry, a well-known cultural innovative industry in Taiwan, by focusing on the relationship among constructed atmosphere, product design,...

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs...

In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real- world complex biological, technological and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...