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Searching for Radical Innovation Investments by Seeking Serial Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
Vass, Laurie Thomas - 2013
, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … segment of the market comprised of users from both technological clusters. Some marketing professionals call this early small … of the success that serial entrepreneurs obtain in their subsequent ventures …
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Evolution of an Innovation Capability - Making Crowdsourcing Work within a Large Enterprise
Smith, Calvin - 2016
As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross a firm's boundaries to engage external partners, relatively little is known about how this...
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Invisible Engines : How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Evans, David S. - 2016
and web portals. They have been the source of enormous value to consumers and helped some entrepreneurs build great …
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Beyond Value Capture - Exploring Innovation Gains from Global Networks
Ernst, Dieter - 2016
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Unbundling Competitive Heterogeneity : Incentive Structures & Capability Influences on Technological Innovation
Leiblein, Michael J.; Madsen, Tammy L. - 2014
Many studies argue that the continual creation of new ideas by small and young firms steadily destroys the competitive positions of their larger, more established rivals. Despite this attention, empirical results relating firm size to innovation remain exceedingly fragile. This paper proposes...
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Enabling Opportunity Through Innovation : The Case of Telefónica in Chile
Zentner, Aeron - 2014
Technological advancement in communication technology has been a driving force of connecting individuals on a global perspective. By integrating into emerging regions, organizations are establishing new opportunities to advance a competitive edge. The following report assesses the case of...
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Diversity in Firms’ Innovation Strategies and Activities : Main Findings of Interviews and Implications in the Context of the Hungarian National Innovation System
Havas, Attila - 2014
This paper reports on the findings of interviews conducted with Hungarian firms on their overall business and innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by analysing qualitative features of innovation processes...
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From Less Promising to Green? Technological Opportunities and Their Role in (Green) ICT Innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhauser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2016
This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...
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The Inventor’s Role: Was Schumpeter Right?
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - 2007
According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...
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