Companies increasingly show that the choice of the right business model is a crucial success factor. Especially the software industry is characterized by a high degree of dynamics within their business activities. For staying competitive within the continuously changing business environment,...

Pressure amongst competitors combined with a rapidly changing economy drive enterprises to continuously adapt their current business models to prevail over competitors. Business models nowadays must be flexible enough to cope with external or internal changes and therefore should be managed and...

Changed business models, such as induced by Software-as-a-Service, require an effective implementation in a firm’s organization. This study clarifies the relation between business models as an implementation of a company’s strategy, and business processes, as an abstraction of a company’s...

Fast changing business environments often force companies to rethink and renew their established business model. Often though, decisions to make changes to the current business model are made too late, when the current business is already struggling. One way to overcome this challenge is to...

This is the second year that we execute the Software Industry Survey in Germany and publish a report with the main results. As formulated in 2012, our goal is to investigate the current state of the German software industry on a yearly basis. Conclusions are made based on grounded data and...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Open Innovation in Turbulent Environments</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Types of External Sources for Open Innovation in Turbulent Settings</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Methods <ul><li class="bullet"> Data and sample</li><li class="bullet"> Measures <ul><li class="bullet"> Open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Innovation success</li><li class="bullet"> Environmental turbulence</li><li class="bullet"> Controls</li></ul> <p></li><li class="bullet"> Results</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Conclusion and...</li></ul></p></p>

In open innovation systems, capturing value through external intellectual property (IP) commercialization is an increasingly important strategy for firms to keep pace with competitive changes. However, many firms have major difficulties in creating value through external patent exploitation. To...

The Economic Valuation of Patents provides an original and essential analysis of patent valuation, presenting the main methodologies to value patents in different contexts.

Corporate incubators for technology development are a recent phenomenon whose functioning and implications are not yet well understood. The resource-based view can offer an explanatory model on how corporate incubators function as specialised corporate units that hatch new businesses. While...

The explosive growth of incubation has seen a concurrent and significant increase in research on and knowledge of the incubation phenomenon. However, instead of comprehensively differentiating between non-profit and for-profit incubators, research has described a whole array of partly...