innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the … improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue that, in line with the work on project classification, a distinction …

detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article …

and cost performance of both the design and manufacturing phases of new product development (NPD). We modeled the impact …

In this paper we report on the results of an interview research about new product development (NPD) processes and … needs for efficiency and flexibility, which often carry opposing implications for organizing and managing new product … inclination towards planning R&D activities. New product development projects are based on well-defined procedures and written …

While product development efforts are often viewed a unique configurations of idiosyncratic tasks, in reality different … product development organization as a stochastic processing network in which engineering resources are "workstations" and … determinants of development cycle time. This class of models provides a useful managerial framework for studying product …

Integrated Product Development (IPD) creates overlap and interaction between activities in the new product development … process and, because this increases the need to coordinate, compensates through other aspects of the new product development … process (e.g., integrated tools), product definitions (e.g., incremental development), organizational context (e.g., reduced …