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Back-Loading : A Potential Side Effect of Employing Digital Design Tools in New Product Development

Fixson, Sebastian K.; Marion, Tucker J. - 2013

Over the past twenty years, the use of digital design tools such as Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) has increased dramatically. Today, almost no product development project is conducted without the use of CAD models. Major advantages typically ascribed to using CAD include better solutions through...

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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry

Marx, Matt; Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H. - 2014

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology – initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

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Collaborative Concept Development Using Supplier Competitions : Insights from the Automotive Industry

Langner, Benedikt; Seidel, Victor P. - 2012

systems of innovation are highlighted …

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Green New Product Development : The Pivotal Role of Product Greenness

Driessen, Paul H.; Hillebrand, Bas; Kok, Robert; … - 2014

This study aims to develop an integrative framework for green new product development (NPD) based on the existing literature and to empirically study the applicability of that integrative framework. This study answers three calls: for research that is rooted in a traditional NPD perspective, for...

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Open for Ideation : Individual-Level Openness and Idea Generation in R&D

Salter, Ammon; Ter Wal, Anne L. J.; Criscuolo, Paola; … - 2014

Organizations are increasingly encouraging their scientists and engineers to source knowledge externally. However, it is unclear how the openness of individuals to external sources of knowledge affects their ideation performance, that is, their ability to develop new, useful innovative ideas for...

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A Longitudinal Study of the Influence of Alliance Network Structure and Composition on Firm Exploratory Innovation

Phelps, Corey C. - 2014

innovation. In a longitudinal investigation of 77 telecommunications equipment manufacturers, I find the technological diversity … of a firm’s alliance partners increases its exploratory innovation. I also find that network density among a firm … diverse information can coexist in a firm’s alliance network and the combination of the two increases exploratory innovation …

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of Smes

Zhou, Haibo - 2010

sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view …

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The Design Paradox : The Contribution of In-House and External Design Activities on Product Market Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2010

developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …

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Product Innovation with Lumpy Investment

Chahim, Mohammed - 2012

This paper considers a firm that has the option to undertake product innovations. For each product innovation the firm …

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R&D Investments in Family and Founder Firms : An Agency Perspective

Block, Jörn - 2014

Investments in Ramp;D can influence a firm's ability to develop new products and to create and adopt innovative technologies that may enhance productivity. However, due to uncertainty regarding the outcome, investments in Ramp;D may lead to an agency problem between the owners and the managers...

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