Innovation determines expansion or just existence of enterprises. It’s an important element of competitive advantage and it is a characteristic that encourages customers to buy novelties. Unfortunately, with innovation activity closely related is uncertainty risk, that means insecurity that...

Innovation determines expansion or just existence of enterprises. It’s an important element of competitive advantage and it is a characteristic that encourages customers to buy novelties. Unfortunately, with innovation activity closely related is uncertainty risk, that means insecurity that...

Las ideas novedosas pueden encontrarse tanto en el interior de las organizaciones como en su entorno, o en los agentes con los que se relaciona. Las organizaciones deben establecer flujos internos y externos de conocimiento para extraer el mayor valor posible de su potencial innovador. La...

Teams kommen in modernen Unternehmen auf allen Ebenen und in saemtlichen Bereichen zum Einsatz. Entsprechend wichtig ist die Analyse teambezogener Lernprozesse. Durch sie laesst sich eine Konkretisierung des oft recht vage bleibenden Konzepts der lernenden Organisation erreichen. In der...

Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original, qualitative case studies focused on research-based spin-offs.

Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domestic rivals. We develop a theoretical...

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions are very important for the economy as a whole and for the individual firm performances,...

We study a model of team problem-solving over a large solution space. Compared to the existing literature, we allow for heterogeneity both in the organizational architectures and in the agents' cognitive abilities; moreover, we introduce a more expressive performance measure. We find a robust...

This paper assesses whether European firms’ innovative performance is impacted by investments in training directly aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by the number of R&D personnels. In particular, it...

The phenomenon of academic spin-offs (ASOs) has been widely studied in recent times. Scholars have mainly concentrated on identifying the factors that favours the phenomenon and the incentive alignments of the parties involved in the process. These works tend to remain static in nature by solely...