Total quality management programmes applied to research and development often produce great improvements in … organisational overhauls which highlight the contribution to the innovation process made by the marketing, engineering, and …

This paper deals with the characteristics of two basic elements for the study of innovation in the firm: the concept of … technological innovation, which is defined as a flow magnitude; and the concept of technology, which is defined as a stock magnitude …. The technological innovation process is characterized by: being of a continuous nature; being path dependent; being …

This article reviews the changing understanding of the word “innovation”. It contains a summary of the critical … criteria for innovation to take place, based upon a study of previous researchers’ work in this area. Explores the way in which … developments in materials and other technologies have acted to allow innovation to take place. It is argued that materials …

Learning in new‐product development teams is cited as being vital in today's competitive, uncertain, and turbulent … environments. However, studies on accelerated learning in product‐development teams are, surprisingly, lacking. This study proposes … a model for accelerated team learning in new‐product development based on constructs borrowed from accelerated learning …

Under rapidly changing and highly competitive circumstances, the timely design, development and marketing of new … retain market share, customer requirements and expectations should be met and exceeded through product innovation. For … effective new‐product‐development project management, a systematic approach to understanding customer requirements and further …

Success in innovation management of telecommunication products depends not only on sales, but also, and primarily so …

The paper argues that some conventional tools guiding innovation processes inadequately analyse problems arising from …

Continued innovation of products, services, technology and the organization itself, is one way to keep a business on … its feet during these turbulent times. The importance of innovation – the process during which leap‐changes are effected … – is generally recognized. However, in practice, the successful conclusion of a total innovation project is by no means …