European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 5 Issue 3

New product development team improvisation and speed‐to‐market: an extended model

Ali E. Akgün, Gary S. Lynn

Speed‐to‐market is cited as being vital in today’s competitive, uncertain and turbulent environments. To help companies in their quest for speed in new product development, many…

Emerging e‐commerce business models: an analysis of case studies from West Lothian, Scotland

Tony Kinder

The paper surveys existing theory of e‐commerce business models and associated conceptual instruments. It employs three original case studies of SMEs using e‐commerce to…

Innovation networks in economics: from the incentive‐based to the knowledge‐based approaches

Andreas Pyka

Innovation networks have become a persistent organisational phenomenon in industrial innovation processes. However, in economics they were considered in the first place only as a…

Profitability in market‐oriented SMEs: does product innovation matter?

Helen Salavou

A significant body of research has focused on the conceptualization of market orientation showing evidence of a positive relationship between market orientation and business…

Guiding innovation socially and cognitively: the innovation team model at Skanova Networks

Tomas Hellström, Merle Jacob, Ulf Malmquist

This paper presents a case study describing the development of an innovation team in a large Swedish telecom company, the aim of which is to find, test and promote new product and…