Fast schon täglich werden hoch dotierte Preise für äußerst gelungene Innovationenvergeben. In der Fachpresse spricht man dann von Unternehmen, die es verstanden haben,ihr Innovationsmanagement besonders erfolgreich umzusetzen und deren ökonomischerErfolg somit über die nächsten Jahre...

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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,...

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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how Nespresso achieved competitive advantage through innovation by changing the rules of the game in its industry. Design/methodology/approach – Nespresso was analyzed based on public available secondary data, in combination with related...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify forthcoming fields of innovation management themes with an outline for the most important areas and directions of academic research and management practice. Design/methodology/approach – Key trends in innovation research are derived from an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify forthcoming fields of innovation management themes with an outline for the most important areas and directions of academic research and management practice. Design/methodology/approach – Key trends in innovation research are derived from an...

The terms innovation and entrepreneurship are commonly used - but not always with the same understanding. There is an obvious strong relationship of both areas, however, barely articulated. Moreover, so far there is few consensus among researchers regarding innovative and entrepreneurial...