Firms achieve their competitive advantage quickly through the concept framework of open innovation by integrating external inspiration with internal endowment when facing hyper-competition in the digital era. This paper deploys open innovation into building platform blocks by modular operators....

The analysis of the advantages of competition as a process of parallel experimentation is a neglected dimension of competition. Innovation competition as a trial and error-process can be analyzed as an evolutionary process of variation and selection of new problem solutions, which allows to...

Begriff und Anliegen des Produktmanagement -- Ziele, Aufgaben und Grundkonzept des Produktmanagement -- Strategische Aspekte des Produktmanagement -- Produktinnovation -- Produktimitation -- Markteintrittsstrategien -- Leistungskern -- Design und Verpackung -- Sekundärdienstleistungen --...