Reflections on business model innovation and future vision
Business model innovation is an essential driver of a company’s competitive advantage, however, successful models seem to result from trial and error exercises rather than from a systematic process. This offers an opportunity for scholars to increase the ability...
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The Future of R&D and Innovation: Development, models and tools
Dr Sven Schimpf, Managing Director of Fraunhofer Group comments that the future of R&D and Innovation is highly uncertain. "A higher degree of interdisciplinarity, openness, flexibility and digitalisation with a stronger focus on user value are among the developments...
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Systems Theory Approaches for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research: Gaining novel insight into factors that influence innovation processes and outcomes
Convergence between technologies and approaches stimulates innovation but understanding the multiple interactions can be problematic, Kevin Reuter of West Saxon University discusses the need for a systems approach to research.
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Intellectual Property Management
Digitisation is creating new challenges for intellectual property, Martin Bader discusses this ahead of the R&D Management Conference
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Enabling sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management: Organization, frameworks, methods and tools
Although sustainability aspects are included in innovation strategy, it is far from being an integral part of innovation management, observes Claus Lang-Koetz. His track addresses the role of sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management – from a theoretical but also...
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R&D Management Conference 2020 – tracks cover latest thinking
Innovations across the boundaries - is the theme for the 2020 R&D Management Conference and there are 25 tracks to choose from and we have asked the track chairs to give an insight into what fascinates them about the...
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