It is not only the record audience at the Solar Power International 08 in San Diego, at the end of lastyear, proving the increased interest in the US solar market. But it is also the visions and currenttrends of the industry which indicate a sustainable positive development of the US market,...

Corporate innovation management geared to long-term success calls for strategy to grow innovations into a substantial competitive advantage. This, however, coincides with an enormous failure-rate at the market, especially in the field of breakthrough innovations. Hence, in recent times,...

Developing new innovative products in the automotive industry means investing huge sums in advance, as one does not know if th product will be successful on the market after launch. The paper discusses the results of a qualitative meta-analysis of 16 empirical studies on New Product Development...

For decades suggestion systems have been used include employees in innovation process. However, in order to gather superior ideas, integrating external stakeholders is critical to the innovation process. Wwwithin this paper the authors derive a sophisticated model of an integrated idea...