Both academia and industry accept unconditionally the significance of new product development and its success in consumer centric businesses. However, one of the key and final indicators of success of any new product “test marketing”, has not received adequate attention from both the said...

Innovative ideas can be gathered from many sources through crowdsourcing and open innovation approaches since these sources have expanded considerably owing to information and communication technologies. Innovation contests are one of the main tools to gather innovative ideas from different...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the level of eco-innovations in the European Union countries. For this purpose, a new method of multi-criteria analysis were used, i.e. PROTERRA method, which was developed by the authors of this article. Analysis concerns a data from the year...