Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result...

<i>Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development</i> goes beyond the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of opportunities that firms may have in innovation and new business development with external actors. This book shows readers that firms can interact, innovate, and do...

<i>Workbook for Opening Innovation ¡ª Bridging Networked Business, Intellectual Property and Contracting</i> focuses on the implementation of phenomena, theories and ideas presented in the book <i>Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development ¡ª Bridging Networked Innovation, Intellectual...</i>

The concept of open innovation has become increasingly popular in the management and policy literature on technology and innovation. However, despite the large volume of empirical work, many of the prescriptions being proposed are fairly general and not specific to particular contexts and...