Going Underground: Bootlegging and Individual Innovative Performance

Going Underground: Bootlegging and Individual Innovative Performance

In order to develop an innovation in a large, mature organization, individuals often have to go underground, secretly undertaking ?bootleg? R&D activities that have no formal organizational support. As yet, there have been few studies that examine how such efforts shape the ability of an individual to generate innovations for their organization. We argue that these underground R&D efforts will ...

Going underground with LTE in Hannover | International Railway Journal

For railway and metro operators, offering a 4G network connection is becoming more critical to keep up with passenger demands for continuous access to data and mobile services while they are on the move. As a result Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) conducted a comprehensive measurement campaign focusing on in‐tunnel LTE performance based on its Radiaflex radiating, or leaky feeder, cables to revie...

The effect of virtuality on individual network centrality and performance in on-going, distributed teams

Firm Leadership and Innovative Performance:

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to this question. In the empirical analysis, it turns out that the manager-led firms are more active inn...

Bootlegging: multidisciplinary brainstorming with cut-ups

We introduce bootlegging, a structured brainstorming technique particularly suited to multidisciplinary settings. Participants first generate ideas in 2 rough groups, one having to do with users and usage situations and the other pertaining to a specific technology or domain. Results are then randomly combined to form unexpected juxtapositions. These combinations are used as the basis for sever...