How has venturing within the circular economy – related to R&D, innovation, commercialization, etc. – emerged in response to incentive-based public policies? This study adds to the existing literature by examining the alignment between top-down public policies to promote circular economy...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined roles via trust relationships of the two technology cores of the firm: information technology (IT) and R&D and their impact on new product success. Design/methodology/approach A model was tested whereby trust and the integrated IT...

Purpose – Organizations have long employed business continuity planning (BCP) to prevent disruption to their operations. The authors seek to extend existing theory by examining the impact of logistical business continuity planning (LBCP) – BCP in the context of logistics – on firms’...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Literature Review <ul><li class="bullet"> Scope and structure of the review</li><li class="bullet"> Defining open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Nomological network of open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation adoption <ul><li class="bullet"> Firm characteristics</li><li class="bullet"> Technology considerations</li><li class="bullet"> External environmental conditions</li></ul> <p></li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation...</li></p></ul></li></ul>

The majority of research and practice tends to conceptualize innovation as a vertically coupled, intra-organizational process. We expand this perspective by conceptualizing innovation as a vertically decoupled, inter-organizational process and by studying the role of research universities as...

There has been a paucity of research to date that has explored whether incentive systems--in the form of monetary payments to inventors, their department or institution, or to university technology transfer office (UTTO) personnel--affect entrepreneurial activities at U.S. universities. To shed...

Interest in the concept of open innovation (OI) has increased during recent years; yet, this line of inquiry remains limited due to the lack of a more comprehensive conceptual framework. As a first step toward a unifying framework, we provide a critical review of previous research on the...