Uncertain and dynamic environments present fundamental challenges to managers of the new product development process. Between successive product generations, significant evolutions can occur in both the customer needs a product must address and the technologies it employs to satisfy these needs....

The electronic games industry has grown within the space of a decade to a $40bn global industry. Yet, at least in the UK, the management of innovation in the software development sector reflects the industry's bedroom origins. Visits to major buyers in the US by UK games developers show that...

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,...

This paper considers the trade-off between leveraging external sources of innovation by outsourcing design and engineering activities and the ability to develop internal product development competences. The trade-off arises because the division of labor within and across firms' boundaries has a...

A number of recent works point towards open innovation as a new imperative for innovation management. Within more traditional and conservative high-tech sectors such as aerospace, however, the literature on open innovation is fairly limited, even more so in the context of emerging economies....

In new product development (NPD) unacceptably high failure rates have often been related to insufficiencies during the early development phases. Nevertheless, only little effort is devoted to the early phases, in theory as well as in practice, and managers often indicate the front end as being...

In research as well as in practice, process models are an expatiated element of innovation management. They fulfill different tasks. In practice, for instance, process models are used as a management tool to standardize development activities. Researchers try to identify activities to be found...

This paper builds upon Berkhout et al.'s (2010) cyclic innovation model (CIM). This model was shown to provide an effective framework for understanding and managing the innovation process and to address many of the shortcomings of previous models. Building on that article we have applied CIM to...

Agricultural enterprises in Mexico have traditionally lacked administrative technical expertise, have been limited to use the minimum tools necessary to meet their fiscal commitments, and have neglected innovative techniques that would allow them to increase the agribusiness' profits. In this...

Education should give attention to the growing demand, so that the state should not lose its responsibility to society to offer this social commitment, even when private initiative tends to absorb a significant proportion of students. The parameters of accreditation, certification part of new...