This paper describes lessons learned from teaching a distributed virtual course on COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks) over the last 12 years at five different sites located in four different time zones.

This paper is concerned with the nature of the connection between services and manufacturing in manufacturing-oriented supply networks. The existing literature on manufacturing shifting into service is reviewed and, although such moves are seen as a way to increased revenue and profit, there are concerns that firms do not understand how the capabilities that underpin manufacturing may be extend...

A principal concern articulated in strategic management research is to understand reasons for performance differences among firms (Nelson, 1991). The resource-based view of the firm offers an explanation for this phenomenon: the possession of unique organizational resources implies that some firms outperform others and, therefore, represent the main source of sustainable competitive advantage. ...

Open innovation networks, which involve a diverse set of partners, are vital for developing new products and services, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Information systems play a significant role in empowering such networks throughout the entire open innovation process. The full article presents the case of an innovation network in the medical device industry, and ident...

Article history: Received 29 October 2009 Received in revised form 8 June 2010 Accepted 9 June 2010 The presence of a slowdown in new product life cycles has recently received notable attention from many innovation diffusion scholars, who have tried to explain and model it on a dualmarket hypothesis (early market-main market). In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the slowdown...

A firm can finance investment either by borrowing or by drawing on cash balances, so that financial asset and liability changes tend to have opposite signs. In contrast, financial intermediaries borrow in order to lend, so that financial asset and liability changes have the same sign. Large non-financial firms in China and India behave like intermediaries rather than textbook non-financial firm...

This paper aims to provide some guidelines for operators involved in local development related to the creation and management of territorial networks as critical tools to foster forms of efficient, effective and sustainable local development. Some models of local territorial networks’ structure and dynamics are described on the basis of the contributions of the complex networks’ theories. The d...

An obvious task in open innovation is to find suitable partners for collaboration. In this paper we present results from three participatory case studies of identifying and matching technology firms for collaborative innovation projects. We observe that matchmaking is a more complex process than an (online) market transaction. The cases show how innovation intermediaries organize the matching p...

Market-driven firms adopt an outside-in management that goes far beyond a simple observation of competitors and understanding of customers’ needs, in order to grasp new market opportunities. In this sense, strategic alliances have become increasingly important to the firms’ external knowledge access and innovation; firms enter into global networks to share both knowledge and costs and to increa...

Sentiment analysis calls for large amounts of annotated data, which are usually in short supply and require great efforts in terms of manual annotation. Furthermore, the analysis is often limited to text polarity and writer’s emotions are ignored, even if they provide valuable information about writer's feelings that might support a large number of applications, such as open innovation processe...