Most approaches in innovation are extrapolating past experiences into the future or they use "wild" out-of-the-box-thinking methods for generating new knowledge or perspectives. However, how can we create something radically new and at the same time something that has been “waited for”, although nobody has explicitly known or seen it; i.e., something that—despite its perhaps radical newness—app...

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is often seen as a key technology for future economic growth. However, its concrete effects on the emergence of radical innovations and associated socio-economic impacts, through increasing divergence between smaller larger firms, have not yet been systematically researched. This paper addresses this by investigating extent to which AI-related knowledge inf...

Empirical research reveals that many new products fail as a result of consumers’ passive resistance to innovation. Moreover, extant research suggests that high levels of stimulation induced by radical innovations even enhance negative effects of passive innovation resistance. However, empirical evidence for these propositions is still rare. Consequently, this study strives to enhance the curren...

This paper examines the implications for research into the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and national systems of innovation (NSI) in the innovation process. The second area deals with the argument that enterprises must move from a “closed innovation” to an “open innovatio...

Previous studies discuss how regulatory, technological and market drivers increasingly challenge manufacturing industries to adopt eco-innovations. However, the understanding of the process by which eco-innovations are developed and commercialized as a result of these drivers is not yet well established, in particular because these drivers are perceived differently by the end-users and their su...

The present study analyses the profile of firms cooperating with users and estimates the effect of this cooperation on firms’ innovation activities. This issue is particular novel and important as users provide information that will be very useful for generating new products and making the innovation process more efficient. The findings confirm that cooperation with users is a tool for progress...

This report is a very preliminary summary of the results of a study on the organization-level capacities that enable an organization to generate multiple new products or services over time. The intent is to develop the basis to assess the innovativeness of an organization, understand what managers need to change to improve their innovativeness, and identify how they can manage that change. This...

A large amount of work has analysed systems approaches to innovation and investigated associated methods of innovation measurement. However, relatively little of this literature has discussed the measurement of eco-innovation. Policies and measures to promote eco-innovation are hampered by a lack of relevant data and indicators. Hence, the research reported here aimed to assess whether innovati...

A FRESH LOOK AT INCREMENTAL AND RADICAL INNOVATION IN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM Highly innovative and entrepreneurial firms, those generating ideas aimed at new and enhanced products, manufacturing processes and services, require entrepreneurial leaders who successfully manage the innovation process to discover or create, and then exploit opportunities (Oster, 1994: Venkataraman & Shane, 1998). ...