Innovation and new product development (NPD) are critical to firm success and are often cited as means to a sustained competitive advantage. Unfortunately, the question of which innovation programs to pursue and how they should be funded is not trivial. This thesis examines the resource...

Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating an increasing geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to...

Crowdsourcing, which is a relatively new phenomenon, offers a variety of potential marketing initiatives for the future expansion of SMEs. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of social media-facilitated crowdsourcing on the capability to integrate knowledge, which ultimately results...

High quality user requirements are positively correlated with successful design outcomes, but engaging stakeholders within low-income contexts can present financial and time-related challenges to product developers from non-local industrial and academic institutions with limited knowledge of the...

For most companies in the biotechnology industry, the core business is new product development (NPD). Indeed, there are still very few companies that have products that have reached the market. Research into NPD in biotechnology companies has largely focussed on success factors rather than the...

This item is the visual presented at the conference From Design to Retail, Introducing Technology into the Textiles Supply Chain, held at Manchester Conference Centre on Wednesday 22nd October 2008.

New product development is central to many firms’ future success. Not only as a means to continue to maintain their piece of the market, but product development can also be a strategic means for a company to diversify, and/or alter focus to adapt to changing market conditions. Most of the...

Hypotheses were developed to capture the dynamic capabilities that result from interfirm partnerships during the joint new product development (NPD) process -- the ability to build, integrate, and reconfigure existing resources to adapt to rapidly changing environments. These capabilities, in...

This paper reviews some aspects of the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in responding to innovation and technological change when undertaking new product development. Focusing on the management of technology, it will consider the role of interaction and collective...

Product innovation is vital to ongoing brand equity and has been responsible for revitalizing many brands, including Apple, Dunlop Volley, Mini, and Gucci. While several scholars have noted the relationship between a brand's position and the form of innovation available to a firm, surprisingly...