China became the second-largest economy behind the USA in 2010. While there is quite some macroeconomic research documenting the technological catching-up of China as a nation, there is only little research studying how individual Chinese firms are catching up. This paper draws on the open innovation perspective to explore how Chinese firms improve their innovative performance. Our empirical an...

With open innovation, firms look for ideas and their execution outside organizational boundaries—for example, through collaboration with suppliers and customers, and sometimes also with competitors. Open innovation thus distributes the innovation process and can result in improved innovativeness, minimized innovation-related risks and external commercialization of intellectual property. There a...

Introduction...................................................................................................................... 1 Innovation and Learning................................................................................................... 3 The cumulative nature of technological knowledge....................................................... 3 Routines ...........................

Recently, the interest in the innovation of digital services based on open public information (i.e. open data) has increased dramatically. Innovation contests, such as idea competitions and digital innovation contests, have become popular instruments to accelerate the development of new service ideas and prototypes. However, only a few of the service prototypes developed at innovation contests ...

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The latest research and analysis into technological, economic and social trends, and how they'll affect business in the future. Using alliances for innovation doesn't have to be a complex concern as our two high-profile case studies demonstrate. 6 open innovation. new ruleS, new ChallengeS It may be the 'next big thing' but what can collaborative innovation really offer to senior management in ...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been the key driver for the modern service industry to innovate and achieve competitive advantages. In this highly competitive industry, companies actively invest technology to launch innovative services expecting to attract customers or lower cost. Academic and empirical studies have examined first-mover advantages in general industries. Howev...

Innovations in services continue to be a vital topic. Compared to product innovation, service innovation has received less attention in the literature. Studying service innovation is as important as ever especially since the world economy is shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Analytical and detailed discussion about service innovations is only beginning. This study aims...

Virtual teams (VTs) have emerged as a new form of organizational structure supported by enabling information and communication technologies (ICT) that are able to meet future service innovation challenges of the fast-changing business environment. How effective are these virtual teams in comparison to traditional face-to-face groups? Is the teamwork quality similar and is information exchanged ...