In order to strengthen research coordination and increase the effectiveness of investments, the Swiss Centre for International Agriculture (ZIL) embarked on a formal priority-setting exercise. The paper documents the decision-making process, examines the application of the analytic hierarchy...

The past years have seen a decentralization of R&D to local markets and centres of excellence. Supported by modern information and communication technologies, "virtual project teams" were formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes. With their boundaries expanding and shrinking...

Customer integration into the innovation process is about to become a best practice. The lead-user approach has proven to be especially valuable when reducing discontinuous innovation's market risk. Since the theory of customer integration still lacks a concept and processes, this article...

The continued growth of the Chinese economy accompanied with the expansion of international investment in China has led to an increase in foreign research and development (R&D) activities in the country. Aside from the rising importance of R&D internationalization, research on foreign R&D in...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den Gestaltungsmerkmalen von Kundenlösungen im "High-End Konsumgüterbereich". High-End Konsumgüter kombinieren die Eigenschaften von High-Tech- sowie Gebrauchs- und Luxusgütern und zielen auf die Befriedigung der Kundenbedürfnisse nach Anerkennung und...

Im Laufe der letzten Jahre hat sich das globale Geschäftsumfeld dramatisch geändert. Durch die Globalisierung ist der Konkurrenzdruck merklich gestiegen, was u.a. zu einer Erhöhung der Dynamik des technologischen Wandels geführt hat. Gerade die produzierende Industrie ist einem zunehmenden...