European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 20 Issue 2

Innovation strategies in retail services: solutions, experiences and meanings

Giuseppe Leonardo Pinto, Claudio Dell’Era, Roberto Verganti, Emilio Bellini

Notwithstanding the importance innovation scholars have accredited to design-driven innovation (DDI), no attempts have been made so far to systematically study whether and how…

A mapping for managers: open innovation for R&D intensive SMEs in the life sciences sector

Stefanos Marangos, Lorraine Warren

The purpose of this paper is to examine what strategies the CEOs of research and development (R&D) intensive small/medium enterprises (SMEs) in the life sciences sector carry out…

Inter-organizational learning within an institutional knowledge network: A case study in the textile and clothing industry

Vasco Eiriz, Miguel Gonçalves, João S. Areias

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the interaction process between organizations of a knowledge network as a means to promote learning. In particular, the authors aim to…

Product and service innovation and discontinuation in manufacturing and service firms in Europe

Frank Crowley

The purpose of this paper is to explore product/service innovation and discontinuation using the firm as a unit of analysis. A key objective of the paper is to compare the results…

Developing radically new meanings through the collaboration with radical circles: Slow Food as a platform for envisioning innovative meanings

Naiara Altuna, Claudio Dell’Era, Paolo Landoni, Roberto Verganti

The importance and complexity of proposing radically new meanings are well-established in the literature. However, a limited number of contributions have analyzed how they can be…

Transactive knowledge from communities of practice to firms: An empirical investigation of innovative projects performance

Maria Cristina Longo, Alessandro Narduzzo

The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent and under which conditions R&D projects benefit from team members’ participation in spontaneous and work-related communities…

Control systems in outsourcing new product development: role of globalization and digitizability

K. Sivakumar, Subroto Roy

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to propose that the nature and degree of control during new product development (NPD) outsourcing depends upon its initiation stage or…

Open innovation in SMEs: Collaboration modes and strategies for commercialization in technology-intensive companies in forestry industry

Kaisa Henttonen, Hanna Lehtimäki

This study examines how technology-intensive small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engage in open innovation. The purpose of this paper is to add to the literature on open…