There is an increasing number of researchers conducting empirical and theoretical investigations to better understand innovation and protection activities of service companies. In fact, previous analyses reveal that the protection topic is difficult to study, particularly when using traditional...

Grundlagen der Untersuchung der frühen Phasen Herleitung des Untersuchungsmodells der frühen Phasen Durchführung der empirischen Untersuchung der frühen Phasen Deskriptive Befunde Kausalanalytische Untersuchung

"Strong market orientation is essential for innovation success!" Although both academics and market research practitioners would generally accept this statement, alignment with the needs of the customer often results in conservative innovation strategies. Due to their focus on what is currently...

Nach Jahren des Überdenkens und der bloßen Optimierung unternehmensinterner Prozesse undStrukturen sowie der isolierten Anwendung diverser Ansätze wie „Lean Management“ und„Lean Production“ fällt der Fokus zunehmend auf innovatorische Kräfte innerhalb der Unternehmung,gerade weil...

Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, Hemmnisse im Innovationsprozess von KMU aus ausgewählten Branchen in der Metropolregion Hamburg zu ermitteln. Die übergeordnete Ziel-setzung war, dass praxisgerechte KMU-spezifische Lösungsmaßnahmen ausgearbeitet werden, die den wirtschaftlichen...

In this study we research user integration in the German service industry. Goal is to explorethe industrial practice with regard to four dimensions of user integration, i.e., why, whom,how, and how successful the service industry integrates to find novel service ideas. Data iscollected from a...

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a generalisation of the open source model of software...

In recent years India has emerged as a major destination for corporate research and development (R&D), especially for multinational corporation. India's domestic instituions like Indian Space Organisation (ISRO), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and the Centre for...