This research examines the strategic conditions that drive entrepreneurial innovators to pursue novel innovation, rather than innovation that is closer to existing technologies. Since radical breakthrough innovation is harder to communicate than incremental counterpart, entrepreneurial innovators may be steered away from breakthrough innovation where the cost of developing credible information ...

While incremental innovation is for most companies a well assessed process, radical product innovation is often handled with difficulty, mainly due to myriad obstacles in the idea-to cash process which limits company’s ability to innovate. As a typical approach, engineers firstly try to find innovative solutions only inside their technological product space, basically thinking accordingly to th...

The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...

The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...

Purpose: This paper focuses on how entrepreneurs anticipate and change their company's business process management after developing a radical innovation. The paper is based on a critical approach to business process modelling (BPM) that posits that—in spite of all the claims, guides, and tools that companies employ to help them modelise their processes—business processes are developed and impro...

We model a firm’s decisions about product innovation, focusing on the extent to which features should be improved or changed in the succession of models that comprise a life cycle. We show that the structure of revenues and costs can suggest when a firm should pursue radical rather than incremental innovation. We use the criterion of maximizing the expected present value of profits during the l...

The literature on digital innovation often relies examples of radical, even paradigm-changing novelties. In order to develop such radical innovations, organizational separation efforts has been advocated by many as an effective strategy. We have conducted a longitudinal case study project at born-digital company. company established separate organization innovation, but over time, the drifted f...

We rehearse the processes of innovation and discovery in general terms, using as our main metaphor the biological concept of an evolutionary fitness landscape. Incremental and disruptive innovations are seen, respectively, as successful searches carried out locally or more widely. They may also be understood as reflecting evolution by mutation (incremental) versus recombination (disruptive). We...

Industrial marketing researchers have developed sophisticated analyses of interactions among business actors in which their exchanges often feature products and services subject to incremental innovation. Relationships feature strongly in this body of research and it is perhaps surprising that the commercial arrangements, such as contracts and management accounting, have featured to a lesser ex...

Scaling represents successful diffusion that ensures sizeable impact and earnings from ICT innovations in emerging markets. Practice can still be shaped by dualistic views – innovation vs. diffusion, pilot vs. scale-up, lead firm vs. other actors, technical vs. social. Synthesising the literature that challenges these dualities, this paper creates a systemic perspective that is particularly app...