Purpose: This paper analyzes the association of searching diversely as a strategy to capture external knowledge and that of competition intensity with innovation in logistics. Secondly it studies how these associations interact by examining whether they intensify or mitigate one another when...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...

Das Fuzzy Front End, d.h. die frühen Phasen der Produktentwicklung, ist von zentraler Bedeutung für den Produkterfolg. Durch herkömmliche Methoden und Verfahren des Innovationsmanagements wird es jedoch nur unzureichend unterstützt. Insbesondere fehlen Ansätze zur systematischen...