In this short essay we reflect on the innovation-related studies that have appeared in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) in its first twenty years of publication, and consider the future work that M&SOM could publish in this domain. Innovation management can be defined...

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such possibility is the visibility of entries – some web-based platforms now allow participants to observe others’ submissions while the...

A common approach to innovation, parallel search, is to identify a large number of opportunities and then to select a subset for further development, with just a few coming to fruition. One potential weakness with parallel search is that it permits repetition. The same, or a similar, idea might...