Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the independent ventures. In particular, corporate ventures are more successful at developing radical in...

The oxidation of caffeine with persulfate and hydroxyl radicals in aqueous solution has been studied by EPR spectroscopy and HPLC analysis. In both cases the formation of 1,3,7-trimethyluric acid is observed as the main final product. A C8]OH radical adduct is postulated as the intermediate after reaction with OH~, and leads to the final product after further oxidation. This radical is too shor...

How do marketing investments (such as price promotions, new product introductions and advertising) contribute to a brand’s revenue premium? Moreover, how do brand and category characteristics moderate the impact of the marketing investments on brand revenue premiums? In this paper, I address these questions with a large-scale econometric analysis of marketing investments and associated brand re...

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group of independent ventures. In particular, corporate ventures are more successful at developing radical innovatio...

The purpose of this study is determine whether and how the flexibility of the workforce is affecting product innovation outcomes of firms responding to their changing environments. Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm we contribute to the literature distinguishing human resource characteristics from human resource management practices and subdividing the characteristics into functio...

Nowadays, the lead user method [von Hippel, Manag Sci 32(7):791– 805, 1986; Lüthje et al. (Res Pol 34(6):951–965, 2005)] and conjoint analysis [Green and Rao (J Market Res 8(3):355–363, 1971), Baier and Brusch (Conjointanalyse: Methoden Anwendungen Praxisbeispiele, Springer, Heidelberg, 2009)] are widely used methods for (new) product design. Both methods collect and analyze customers’ preferen...

This paper reviews the economic, political science/strategic, business and operational literatures on complex product innovation in government markets. It categorizes their insights in terms of the sources of innovation they identify – civilian leadership, bureaucratic politics, new technologies and user innovations – to illustrate the overlap among the disciplinary insights. It argues that pas...

Incremental innovations appears to be much more frequent than radical innovations. Possible explanations rely on the effect of degree competition in market. The paper, contrary, focuses agents' attitude towards status quo and con- servativeness specifies conditions where preference for incremental represents an optimum. In fact, welfare generated by drops dramatically when agents are uncertaint...

Purpose This study aims to determine the effect of organizational learning capability (OLC) on innovation (OI) and identify type that is accorded more emphasis by Ethiopian manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach applied an explanatory research design, cross-sectional data were gathered through structured questionnaires from general HR managers 197 firms in Addis Ababa Oromia, Ethiopia...

A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow manufacturers to commercialize innovations with financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by us...