Because of the uncertainty associated with innovation, it is difficult to assess the profitability potential of business model innovations. However, since theory predicts and explains, and assessing the profitability potential of a business model is about predicting what its profitability will...

This paper provides an overview of the main perspectives and themes emerging in research on open innovation. The paper is the result of a collaborative process among several open innovation scholars — having a common basis in the recurrent Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on...

Why do we in the US spend more money on healthcare than anyone else in the world but keep getting sicker, fatter, and more susceptible to healthcare shocks such as the covid-19 pandemic than anyone else? What is the solution to this problem? In this paper, I argue that three...

What role do users play during innovation? Ever since it was argued that users can also be the sources of innovation, the literature on the role of users during innovation has grown tremendously. In this paper, we review this growing literature, critique it and develop some of the research...

Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms’ competitive advantage when the technological change instead renders obsolete...

• In consolidating its North American and European product development into five Vehicle Program Centers (VPCs) to develop cars for all markets, integrating its manufacturing, supply, marketing and sales into a worldwide operation, Ford is moving from a so-called multi-domestic strategy to a...

In this paper, I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world’s healthcare systems and economies is actually a Vitamin D deficiency problem with an unbelievably effective solution that costs a few cents a day per person but saves lives and trillions of dollars, with zero adverse...