European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

The valuation of technology in buy‐cooperate‐sell decisions

Vittorio Chiesa, Elena Gilardoni, Raffaella Manzini

This paper is aimed at studying the technology in buy‐cooperate‐sell decisions process in order to identify and analyse the logical steps that should characterise a complete and…

New knowledge creation through dialectical leadership: A case of IT and multimedia business in Japan

Mitsuru Kodama

Aims to provide new practical viewpoints regarding the knowledge management and leadership theory of project management through an in‐depth case study

Adoption of behaviour: predicting success for major innovations

David J. Langley, Nico Pals, J. Roland Ortt

The goal of this article is to show that memetics is particularly useful to predict the adoption of major innovations.

Market‐oriented new product development: How can a means‐end chain approach affect the process?

Helle Alsted Søndergaard

Aims to ascertain whether a well‐known theory within consumer research – a means‐end chain (MEC) – can be used as a catalyst to achieve market oriented product development.

Innovation projects in Israeli incubators: Categorization and analysis

Bernard Kahane, Tzvi Raz

Based on an Israeli innovation incubators program, aims to describe a procedure to define relevant categories in order to reduce the complexity of representing the population of…

Innovation through acquisition: The Jiangsu Little Swan Group Company in the People's Republic of China

Robert M. Pech, Richard J. Pech, Ding Wei, Hong Shi

Through a case study of the Jiangsu Little Swan Group Company in the People's Republic of China aims to describe the transition from initial attempts at imitation of products…

Methods for modeling and supporting innovation processes in SMEs

Barbara Scozzi, Claudio Garavelli, Kevin Crowston

Sets out to investigate business modeling techniques (BMTs) which can be used to support and improve innovation processes within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).