Tournaments 101 : a primer for innovators -- In-house sources : generating opportunities internally -- Outside sources: sensing opportunities externally -- Elimination round : screening opportunities -- Strategic fit : pulling opportunities from strategy -- Short-term profitability : analyzing...

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators about the quality of submissions. In this paper, we use design contests allowing repeated entry to examine the effect of in-process...

"This book contains material developed for use in the interdisciplinary courses on product development that we teach. Participants in these courses include graduate students in engineering, industrial design students, and MBA students. While we aimed the book at interdisciplinary graduate-level...