In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in 553 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We explore typical activities concerning the generation and assessment of new product ideas, the reduction of...

The domain of New Product Development (NPD) is subject to considerable uncertainties.However, companies are required to manage the innovation process as efficiently as possible.The resulting conflicting demands often leave companies struggling to achieve both,efficiency as well as flexibility...

In this paper, we are going to report on the results of an exploratory pieceof research about the typical front-end-related activities in 28 innovation projectscarried out by 14 German and 13 Japanese companies to reduce project uncertainty. Inall cases we observed a range of activities to...

In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in 553 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We explore typical activities concerning the generation and assessment of new product ideas, the reduction of...

This book provides a profound overview of Japanese ways of managing innovation, looking at various relevant levels such as strategy, processes, organization, culture and implementation. Within this framework, contributions by both researchers and practitioners deal with aspects such as the fuzzy...

With this paper we aim to contribute to the discussion about the difficulties that occur when trading technicalknowledge and particularly patents. Currently one can observe that markets for technology have been sizablegrowing, transaction obstacles are still immanent and technology market...

Nach Jahren des Überdenkens und der bloßen Optimierung unternehmensinterner Prozesse undStrukturen sowie der isolierten Anwendung diverser Ansätze wie „Lean Management“ und„Lean Production“ fällt der Fokus zunehmend auf innovatorische Kräfte innerhalb der Unternehmung,gerade weil...

Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, Hemmnisse im Innovationsprozess von KMU aus ausgewählten Branchen in der Metropolregion Hamburg zu ermitteln. Die übergeordnete Ziel-setzung war, dass praxisgerechte KMU-spezifische Lösungsmaßnahmen ausgearbeitet werden, die den wirtschaftlichen...

In this study we research user integration in the German service industry. Goal is to explorethe industrial practice with regard to four dimensions of user integration, i.e., why, whom,how, and how successful the service industry integrates to find novel service ideas. Data iscollected from a...

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a generalisation of the open source model of software...