European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 6 Issue 2

Facilitating, accelerating, and sustaining the innovation diffusion process: an epidemic modeling approach

Walter Hivner, Willie E. Hopkins, Shirley A. Hopkins

Our focus in this article is on a conceptual framework that has the potential to help managers achieve the goals of facilitating, accelerating, and sustaining the innovation…

Consumer adoption of technological innovations

Maria Saaksjarvi

This paper introduces a conceptual model of consumer innovation adoption based on knowledge and compatibility. More specifically, innovation adoption is proposed to be determined…

Corporate consulting in product innovation: overcoming the barriers to utilization

Robert Sandberg, Andreas Werr

Companies in the business‐to‐business segment increasingly try to expand their product offerings into customer solutions offerings. This often implies adding value through…

Memetics and innovation: profit through balanced meme management

Richard J. Pech

One of the major driving forces behind a firm’s success can be attributed to its meme management. Memes, analogous to the biological gene, are self‐replicating. They represent the…

Creating a project climate for successful product innovation

Paul Harborne, Axel Johne

This paper reports the results of a study into leadership of new service development projects in consumer banking. A sample of UK businesses embracing both new entrants and mature…