Radical innovations prompt significant subsequent technological development and exhibit novelty and "architectural" innovation, i.e. rearranging the way design elements are put together in a system. Thus, radical innovations often serve as the foundation for new technological systems, industries or domains and are seen to involve significant conceptual breakthroughs, through either luck or geni...

Abstract The purpose of the paper is to investigate how innovative, small‐to‐medium enterprises (SMEs) internationalize through utilizing wholly foreign‐owned entities (WFOEs), as there a little research explaining this. This presents findings from in‐depth case studies with 14 SMEs that internationalized China WFOEs. WFOEs in order tap into opportunities and develop presence. were developed ei...

This report is a very preliminary summary of the results of a study on the organization-level capacities that enable an organization to generate multiple new products or services over time. The intent is to develop the basis to assess the innovativeness of an organization, understand what managers need to change to improve their innovativeness, and identify how they can manage that change. This...

This paper analyses the influence of marketing and organisational changes on the innovation process. Using data from the German Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2007, two questions are investigated. Firstly, do certain firm and market characteristics trigger certain innovation strategies? This allows the examination of whether product/ process (PP) and marketing/ organisational (MO) innovation...

The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...

The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...