finally become manufacturers themselves. Design/methodology/approach – Concrete innovation projects were chosen as the unit of … required innovation networks. A high problem pressure, an active role of users in the idea generation phase, a high degree of … systematically identify and leverage entrepreneurial users for their innovation work. Thus, parts of the R&D and marketing function …

counterparts (i.e. suppliers). Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual model is grounded in organizational innovation theory …

linkages that have large downstream impacts) in radically new innovation, manufacturing, diffusion and adoption …/rejection processes; examines the IMDAR process model (innovation‐manufacturing‐diffusion‐adoption/rejection) of new products. Findings …

Purpose – This paper is a case study that aims to trace the adoption of innovation of the fabric filter, an innovative … for firms eager to market the next innovation to this unique industrial marketplace.  …

turn to innovation‐based cluster initiatives to secure the long‐term prosperity of a region. However, the mechanisms that … framework which sees a firm's network competence and network location as being key to superior innovation performance. Design … operate at the expected level of innovation performance. Findings further support the hypothesis that network competence and …

focus of the study is to increase descriptive knowledge and understanding of innovation and diffusion processes in … development direction. Research limitations/implications – The case study reanalysis and expansion are generalizable to innovation …

to overcome innovation resistance of organizational customers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's conceptual … – The determinants of organizational innovation resistance encompass the psychological, economic, technological, political …, strategic, and organizational structural aspects of a technological innovation. Information flow is the key to breaking through …

. The aim is to investigate how learning orientation enhances network collaboration and to discuss the role of the co‐innovation … collaboration. Findings – The analysis shows that learning drives firms' co‐innovation focus in terms of product and process co‐innovation …. In particular, the explorative learning orientation is found to foster firms' network collaboration through product co‐innovation …