The Innovation Mill (IM) is an initiative which has been established in collaboration mainly among Nokia Corporation, Technopolis, and Tekes. Nokia Corporation provides its non-core ideas to other existing and start-ups companies through IM to turn these ideas into valuable products and services. Nokia idea database consists of enormous number of ideas that are non-core to it. Companies earn gr...

This paper studies ways to support sustainable growth in high technology small firms by managing innovation. The paper examines technology based and knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) and their innovation management in Finland. The goal is to find at least one meaningful innovation process for a small KIBS firm that takes growth into consideration. In the paper incremental, radic...

The intensive use and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are behind the innovation of new products, services and business models in the ecosystem. Thus, the information (SI) systems and emerging technology, innovation carriers, position management information systems (DSI) as a key player in the innovation process. The objective of this article is to propose a model...

User-generated innovation has contributed to the growth of democratization open-innovation models. One most common forms user-generated is evident on social media platforms. The purpose this study investigate nonpecuniary motivations that drive among user innovators Furthermore, examines underlying sociopsychological and biological dispositions influence motivation. experimental control group c...

VII Inhaltsübersicht IX Inhaltsverzeichnis XI Abbildungsverzeichnis XVII Tabellenverzeichnis XIX Abkürzungsverzeichnis XXI 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Motivationsrahmen 2 1.2 Relevanz des Themas und Problemstellung 3 1.3 Forschungsfokus 8 1.4 Aufbau der'Arbeit 10 1.5 Konventionen 13 2 Forschungsdesign.') 15 2.1 Forschungskontext 16 2.1.1 Forschungsmethodik 17 2.1.1.1 Quantitative Ansätze 17 2.1.1.2 Qual...

This paper describes the terminology of Virtual Enterprise Environments as a construct to enable the combination of spaces for open innovation and Virtual Enterprises. This shall contribute towards better management of innovation processes in collaborative networks. Consequently this includes the Business Innovation Space and the Value Production Space, which are shared by the collaborating ent...

This paper studies firms’ innovation behavior in a supply chain where two firms first invest to reduce component’ cost according to different innovation modes (non-cooperative innovation, sequential innovation, and cooperative innovation) and then decide the prices according to different market powers (Supplier-Stackelberg, Manufacturer-Stackelberg, and Nash). We find that both the supplier and...

The technological innovation evolution is a selforganization process. There are complex characteristics in technological innovation system. From the perspective of system theory this paper illuminated the self-organization characteristics of technological innovation system and analyzes the self-organization mechanisms of the innovation process and characteristics of openness, dynamic, nonlinear...

This paper explores the relationships between an individual's attitudes toward innovation adoption, his or her social category with respect to adoption, and innovation-adoption behavior. First the paper describes how attitudes and social categories can theoretically be linked to innovation adoption, and proposes a comprehensive model in which the two sets of variables are viewed as explaining b...

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...