The main objective of this research is to contribute to innovation capability understanding. Furthermore, it is mainly focused in the way innovation capability is built and developed. Based on a multiple case study and interviews with managers, who are responsible for the new product development projects, in two innovative technologybased companies (ITBC) in the broadcasting sector, a collectio...

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...

Available online 19 June 2012 This paper analyses the technology strategy and standard competition of the most outstanding innovation cases of Apple and Microsoft. The objective of the study is to understand innovators' pursuit of strategies in securing the benefits from an innovation, based on the innovation life cycle model. The study develops a new methodological framework of platform for an...

Chinese government has issued the “Outline of Medium and Long-term Plan for National Science and Technology Development” in January 2006 (The State Council, 2006), with an ambitious goal to become an innovative country by 2020. Meanwhile, the capacity building for innovation has become the core of national strategies, and results in a fundamental change in the national innovation strategy and r...

over the past decade open innovation has been of interest to several researchers as one of the innovation management theories. the researchers believe that the adoption and efficacy of this approach are influenced by different internal and external contingencies to the firm. the sector or industry’s contextual properties and institutional environment conditions are those external contingencies ...

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...

This research investigates how firm size and the type of offering (product or service) moderate relationship between innovation strategy performance. The results from two studies involving samples managers firms in United States show that do indeed relationships performance dual moderating effects exist. challenge prevailing notions on expected benefits exploration exploitation strategies for s...