In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch...

Service systems engineering (SSE) focuses on the systematic design and development of service systems. Guided by a value proposition, service systems enable value co-creation through a configuration of actors and resources (often including a service architecture, technology, information, and...

This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (<a href="http://www.innovation-lab.org">www.innovation-lab.org</a>). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful...