changed during the implementation of the project. -- Fuzzy front end ; innovation risk ; uncertainty ; idea generation …-end-related activities in 28 innovation projects carried out by 14 German and 13 Japanese companies to reduce project uncertainty. In all … innovation management in both the German and Japanese companies. We interviewed managers of 13 Japanese and 14 German enterprises …

-conceptualized. This paper draws on theories of power in transitions, transformative social innovation and social practice theory to …-survey targeted at individuals engaged in social innovation. The objective is to better understand social processes of change and the …

The existing literature shows that interdepartmental collaboration within companies enhances innovativeness due to … they also use competition between innovation projects to organize their innovation projects. Such competitive mechanisms … same time, they have the power to expedite innovation processes. Based on German CIS data, we use a stochastic frontier …

Discussion of "market pull" versus "technology push" approaches in the field of busi-ness innovation research has … how each of these approaches differently influence the subsequent success of the innovation. We do not wish to continue … relevant innovation source, the desired degree of innovation and the respective characteristics of the industry in question. We …

how dependent innovation is on economic growth and what effects a potential long-term economic stagnation or decline may … have on innovation processes and systems. We approach the subject from different angles using mixed methods. First, we … present a quantitative analysis of the linkages between economic growth and innovation activities on a sectoral level, based …