"How do you sell a totally new kind of product to a market that does not yet exist? Entrepreneurial businesses often create products and services based on radically new technology that has the power to change the marketplace. This means that existing market research will have produced data about...

Preface -- Using marketing to create a new business with radically new product ideas -- Identifying an application and market -- Segmentation and positioning to maximise the value of a new technology and product application -- Adoption, diffusion, and understanding lead customers -- Competitive...

Using marketing to create a new business with radically new ideas -- Identifying an application and market -- Identifying the market: segmentation and positioning to maximise the value of the product application -- Adoption, diffusion, and understanding lead customers -- Important competitive...

When manufacturers introduce a new product to the market, downstream retail partners are faced with inherent trade-offs. Retail sales personnel has to support the new product's introduction with substantial sales efforts, but also sell the existing products in stock, before storage and...

Using marketing to create a new business with radically new ideas -- Identifying an application and market -- Identifying the market: segmentation and positioning to maximise the value of the product application -- Adoption, diffusion, and understanding lead customers -- Important competitive...