Total quality management programmes applied to research and development often produce great improvements in productivity because they follow trajectories that are lateral and parallel to the principal thrust which is aimed at client satisfaction. Such improvements are obtained through a better...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to analyse the changing of governance modes for the acquisition of external technology in the context of design driven innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This is an explorative study drawing on cases of new product development (NPD) by six...

Purpose – A large number of methodologies for R&D project selection have been developed and reported in the literature over the last few decades, and it has become a very popular research topic since the 1960s. The aim of this paper is to classify and characterize the determining aspects...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the strength of intellectual capital (IC) and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach Primary data of 150 SMEs belonging to manufacturing medium-high tech industries...