Given the significant role of startups in the wellbeing of the economy and considering that more than half of the existing startups either work or have activities related to the IT field, in the current paper we have proposed a model meant to aid IT startups in their development process and in...

Background: To stay competitive in a highly unpredictable market of today, companies must be able to manage project risks effectively. The basis for an effective risk management is a thorough risk analysis. Despite the availability of many different risk analysis approaches, companies can be...

Project management and project portfolio management (PPM) foster competitiveness by facilitating the implementation of organizational strategy. Although organizations often struggle to develop PPM capabilities, the academic community does not have an in-depth understanding of the conditions for...

This paper presents the results of a large-scale empirical study of uncertainty reduction of R&D projects and R&D project selection. The empirical field is the German automotive supplier industry. We explore R&D project selection practices in this specific industry and briefly contrast our...

This paper investigates the role of skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world's largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level...

Building on real options literature, this study shows that the use of a staged approach for the management of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm characteristics and ambitions. In particular, while staged project management increases the...

This paper investigates the role of skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software activity. We explore the hypothesis that the...

This paper explores the structure of the project-based innovation networks promoted by tax incentives to innovation activities in the Brazilian ICT sector (“ICT Law”). It proposes a framework for characterizing the decentralized governance of innovation projects in sectors, identifying (i)...

Despite a good number of scientific developments in innovation, most studies suggest that the most effective innovation project should be only selected for a group of economic indicators related to investment. In practice, it is necessary to create a method for assessing the effectiveness of...