European Biotechnology companies and public policy-makers face to a number of crucial problems related to the development of Biotechnology in Europe : European industrial competitiveness, the relative under-exploitation of the European science base in Biotechnology, poor technology transfer...

The digital creative industries exemplify innovation processes in which user communities are highly involved in product and service development, bringing new ideas, and developing tools for new product uses and environments. We explore the role of user communities in such co-innovation processes...

Cover -- Table of contents -- Guest Editor's note -- Business model performance: five key drivers -- Succeeding with freemium: strategies for implementation -- Crowdsourcing business models that last -- Responding to open business models -- Discovering digital business models in traditional...