Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Henri Simula Name of the doctoral dissertation Management of Commercialization Case Studies of Industrial, Business-to-Business Product Innovations Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 122/2012 Field of research In...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to investigate the effects of supplier collaboration on the firm innovation performance as well as the enabling characteristics of the purchasing function. This is an original contribution as few papers empirically test the effect of supplier collaboration (meant as supplier involvement, development, and integration) on innovation performance and — simultan...

Statistics Finland added questions to the Finnish Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for 2010 on the importance of user innovation. For firms engaged in innovation activity during the three year period, 2008–2010, 30 per cent reported that user modified products were of high or medium importance to them. For user developed products the figure was 13 per cent. These firms, compared with those tha...

Economists and marketing researchers have examined how the network effects can impact on the adoption of technology and products, and how an intrinsic inferior product or technology may dominate the market. However, their studies have not explained how a producer could create network effect for its product and how, after successfully creating the network effect for its product, the producer cou...

ISO 9000 quality system certification has been widely applied around the world, but with mixed success. A review of the literature revealed gaps in research in this area of quality/operations management, particularly in the empirical testing of the effects of ISO 9000 certification on innovation performance. This study examines the impact of ISO 9000 certification on product and process innovat...

When it comes to the development of new products, the product management has to encourage collaboration throughout all shareholders. The higher the number of shareholders, the higher the challenges towards cost, development time, delay, quality, and communication. This task has become even more difficult since social networks and online communities have gained popularity as a customer-driven in...

Through past decade open innovation achieved enormous amount of attention from scholars and practitioners as well. We took one part of open innovation – customer innovation through social media, and looked into companies‟ practices to more efficiently integrate information from social media into New Product Development (NPD). We used mechanism of coordination method to explore how moving from t...

An important form of user innovation – Internet-supported collaborative design of new products and services by user communities – is likely to progressively supplant producer product and service design in many fields. This shift will require changes in governments’ innovation policies, for example, with respect to intellectual property rights. We discuss some general categories of innovation po...

eco-innovation is an actual topic as it links two key issues, innovation and sustainability. theenvironmental respect and innovation are important drivers of competitiveness. firms are willing to knowwhat to do to improve their eco-innovative capacity. the objective of this paper is to empirically determinewhat common characteristics have the most environmental oriented innovative firms. we ana...