In this paper, we are going to report on the results of an exploratory piece of research about the typical front-end-related activities in 28 innovation projects carried out by 14 German and 13 Japanese companies to reduce project uncertainty. In all cases we observed a range of activities to...

This paper presents results of an empirical large-scale study on uncertainty reduction of R&D projects and R&D project selection. The empirical field is the German automotive supplier industry. We explore R&D project selection practices in this specific industry and briefly contrast our findings...

This paper presents the results of a large-scale empirical study of uncertainty reduction of R&D projects and R&D project selection. The empirical field is the German automotive supplier industry. We explore R&D project selection practices in this specific industry and briefly contrast our...

Die frühen Phasen des Innovationsprozesses -- Bedeutung und Charakteristika der frühen Phasen des Innovationsprozesses -- Anstöße für Innovationen -- Technologiebeobachtung -- Methoden zur Sicherstellung von Kundenorientierung in den frühen Phasen des Innovationsprozesses --...