The product development process of the Pharmaceutical industry is unique as all new drug development undergoes a strict approval process, following a series of clinical trials, before a new drug can be approved for the market...

InnoCommunity

Users of products and technologies increas- ingly gather in virtual problem-solving networks, in which new products and services are collaboratively developed. Our research project aims at developing a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms govern- ing these communities and their innovative outcome...

InnoHospital

This research project aims at mapping current innovation management practice at hospitals. To establish innovation performance of hospitals, a comprehensive list of new product and service offerings as well as new processes at different levels of hospital operations introduced between 2007 and 2009 has been developed...

TRACE — Tracking Corporate Entrepreneurship

Corporate Entrepreneurship is the expression of a corporation’s quest to create and build new businesses (NBC). Encouraged by top manage- ment, such initiatives are pursued by Corporate Entrepreneurs...

Technology and Design Innovativeness

This project aims at developing a more refined understanding of the different facets of new product innovativeness and to relate these innovativeness dimensions to new product success...

Portfolio Innovativeness

Concerning the impact of portfolio innovativeness on performance, empirical evidence is mixed. This research project strives at clarifying, how the innovativeness scale's properties and the respondents' functional background affect the firm performance impact of portfolio newness...

Formal NPD Processes and Innovative New Products

The Stage-Gate® process consists of a series of stages in which the new product development (NPD) team undertakes the work and intermediate gates where go/no-go decisions are made to carry on with the project (Cooper, 2008). Although such a formalized NPD process contributes to project effectiveness and efficiency, the literature argues that it is not beneficial for the development of highly innovative products...

Global New Service Development

This research project aims at investigating the effect of different dimensions of the behavioral environment (BE) of firms on their new service development performance, focusing those firms, which are operating a global new service development portfolio...

Outsourcing Innovation

Companies that are considering outsourcing parts of their innovation activities (outsourcers) and companies that are candidates for taking over those innovation activities (vendors) are faced with numerous challenges for conducting a successful innovation outsourcing arrangement...

Vendor-outsourcer Partnerships

A vendor’s capabilities are recognized as one of the most important factors for success in outsourcing. However, there is a lack of understanding of how vendors manage their capabilities throughout the outsourcing process. With an aim to contribute to filling this existing gap, we explore how vendors deploy their capabilities in order to win, run and renew the outsourcing...

Difference with Suppliers and Pioneering Innovations

Innovations are critical driving forces for firms to engage in corporate growth and new business development. Innovating firms are increasingly generating new knowledge in collaboration with partners. In this study, we analyze how the knowledge differences be- tween the innovating firms and their suppli- ers in Canada are likely to result in pioneering innovations...

Technological Exploration and External Corporate Venturing Partners

Companies are increasingly using external corporate venturing to learn from knowledge sources beyond the boundary of the firm. External corporate venturing has been found positively related to the innovation perfor- mance of firms and has become a noteworthy vehicle for exploration...

Foreign Competition, Technological Distance and Pioneering Innovation

This study investigates the likelihood that firms generate pioneering innovations under different levels of foreign competition in domestic market, meanwhile taking the ef- fects of technological distance between the focal innovative firms and their suppliers into account...

Technology Transfer Between European Firms and Chinese Partners

An emerging innovation paradigm recognizes that superior innovation performance results in the opening up of innovation strategies, which explore and absorb external knowl- edge sources and remain flexible in outsourcing internal technologies to external partners...