The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent and comprehensive literature review is lacking. In this paper we contribute to a clarification of the concept "green innovation" and provide an overview of the existing body of...

Timo Weyrauch untersucht, welche Kriterien eine frugale Innnovation definieren und wie frugale Innovationen entwickelt werden können. Im ersten Teil der Untersuchung werden auf Basis eines Literaturreviews sowie einer qualitativen Befragung drei Kriterien entwickelt, um frugale von...

Technology Market Intermediaries (TMI) are currently emerging on the markets for technologies attempting to realize business opportunities and facilitate the technology and IP transactions supporting firms and other markets actors (e.g. universities). They aim to support open innovation,...

In this study we examine the effects of exogenous vs. endogenous governance rules on a virtual community handling an innovative task. Specifically we investigate the relationship between the two modes (exogenous vs. endogenous) and factors such as motivation, conflict and justice. We conducted...

The intensive concern with customer needs and problems is one of the key contributors to the success of innovation management. During the seventies, numerous procedures were developed, in theory as well as in practice. These procedures entered literature as so called "need-assessment" approaches...

The increased need/wish for mobility amongst various sections of the society, particularly amongst professionally active groups, is confronting credit institutions (banks) and other enterprises offering financial services, with challenges to adjust their service portfolio in a way to best suit...

This paper provides insights into one of the first in-depth empirical studies of how patents contribute to the external access of companies to financial sources.1 Based on expert interviews and a large-scale survey across company size clusters in technology intensive industries in Germany, the...