According to the organizational learning literature, the greatest competitive advantage a firm has is its ability to learn. In this paper, a framework for modeling learning competence in firms is presented to improve the understanding of managing innovation. Firms with different knowledge stocks attempt to improve their economic performance by engaging in radical or incremental innovation activ...

It is widely acknowledged that suppliers contribute positively to innovation in new product development. However, it remains rather unclear what suppliers actually contribute to innovation. Based on a literature review focusing on 80 articles, and a focus group meeting with strategic purchasing managers, a conceptual framework is developed categorizing different supplier inputs to innovation. T...

Innovation and radical strategic change are closely related. They both introduce a high degree of uncertainty to an organisation. Recent research has identified that there are particular processes that are more effective at facilitating the management of such activities by enabling the uncertainties to be reduced. There are parallels in other sectors concerning the way innovation and change pro...

Entrepreneurial action is increasingly associated with innovation ecosystems because no firm alone can render the complex and interdependent services demanded in markets. Moreover, entrepreneurial firms are increasingly instigators of innovation ecosystems, rather than merely participants. However, particularly in the pursuit of radical innovation, a question arises as to how an entrepreneurial...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue Small Business Economics on “Radical Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and (Regional) Growth” present a roadmap for future research in area. This article argues that link between literature radical innovation, entrepreneurship, (regional) growth still an underresearched topic. also reviews issue’s contributions allow more nuanced unde...

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this ...

Today, companies often face rapid and substantial change of their business environment. To stay competitive, firms are forced to engage in continuous innovation of their products and services. Moreover, the digitization of society and organizations has led to an increase in radical and disruptive innovations across all industries and trades. As a result, companies often find it difficult to dev...

It is increasingly recognized that innovation processes, especially in relation to the development of technologies that are radical or disruptive, do not follow the often-assumed linear progress – from basic science to applied research through development to commercialization. Instead, these kinds of innovation processes are better characterized as ‘interactive’ or ‘networked’ (Rothwell, 1994; ...