In this paper, I identify the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets as a new source of radical innovation. By focusing managerial attention on creating awareness, access, affordability, and availability (4As), managers can create an exciting environment for innovation. I suggest that external constraints can be utilized to build an innovation sandbox within which new products and business models ...

And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize R&D incentives of new entrants to a market may be shaped by the prospects of being acquired by an incumbent. In this paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage, firms compete to develop innovations of high quality. They do so by cho...

Factors that affect the level of innovation in projects to develop new service offerings are analyzed based on field research results from 84 service innovation projects. Personal characteristics of developers, process and customer type, and an important characteristic of their organization (i.e., whether or not they possess a strong Lean Six Sigma or similar process improvement orientation) ar...

Process management and process innovation often cause confusion to managers. This study aims to clarify the differences between process management and process innovation and the proper timings for their respective applications. The study uses the S-Curve of the technology development cycle to explain the roles that process management and process innovation play during the cycle and to make sugg...

By integrating organizational learning theory with the family firm literature, we seek to enhance our understanding of radical innovation in (multi)family-owned firms. We theorize that goal diversity and path dependency multifamily ownership creates negatively affects positive relationship between knowledge integration innovation. However, this is not case for multifamily-owned firms which memb...

Computer-Aided Design and Applications is an international journal on the applications of CAD CAM. It publishes papers in general domain plus emerging fields like bio-CAD, nano-CAD, soft-CAD, garment-CAD, PLM, PDM, data mining, internet, education, genetic algorithms engines. The aimed at all developers users technology to ptovide solutions for various stages design manufacturing. about technol...

Robotic radical prostatectomy is a new innovation in the surgical treatment of prostate cancer. The technique is continuously evolving. In this article we demonstrate The Ohio State University technique for robotic radical prostatectomy. Robotic radical prostatectomy is performed using the da Vinci surgical system. The video demonstrates each step of the surgical procedure. Preliminary results ...