Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

style. While the former is illustrated by knowledge and team characteristics, the latter is identified by technological …

virtual team to enhance their performance and competitiveness. Despite virtual teams growing prevalence, relatively little is … known about this new form of team. Hence the study offers an extensive literature review with definitions o f virtual teams … needed for effective virtual team considering the people, process and technology point of view and underlying characteristics …

&D) teams for new product development (NPD). However, the factors that make process construct in a virtual R&D team are still … development managers of enterprises to concentrate in the main factors for leading an effective virtual R&D team. In addition, it …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and …, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

during the1990s. For those firms, innovation management no longer deals with introducing radically and totally new products …

field that needs exploration by researchers in product and services innovation: the design of the sales process. Furthermore …