Over the past few years, international indicators have shown that one of the main weaknesses plaguing Spanish companies is their abysmal competitiveness. In theory, nearly everyone involved agrees that one way to fix the problem would be for companies to make a firm commitment to innovation. However, in practice it is not always easy to distinguish between the different types of innovation, muc...

Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation management. In particular, the option to use acquisitions as a means for technology sourcing matters. The paper investigates the determinants and dynamics of this for software-based high technology industries. It analyses the association of acquirer characteristics with different me...

| The overall goal of a process chemistry department within the pharmaceutical industry is to identify and develop a commercially viable approach to a drug candidate. However, the high chemical complexity of many modern pharmaceuticals presents a challenge to process scientists. Delivering disruptive, rather than incremental, change is critical to maximizing synthetic efficiency in complex sett...

In this paper, we study the effects of integration of one or more disruptive innovations and ask if the resultant (new) innovation can have a dramatic impact on new and existing markets, and the resultant technology paradigm. We describe the evolution and dynamics of this process using Skype as a case in point. Skype successfully fused peerto-peer computing (P2P) techniques and voiceover-Intern...