The strategic value-curve approach has been widely acclaimed for at least ten years as a major innovation in the strategic field ; it meets a great success in many industries, based on its authors’ –Kim & Mauborgne- promise to make the competition irrelevant. The approach relies on a graphic...

Motivated by the consequences of firm’s defensive behavior, we test the impact of market regulation on R&D effort. Our estimates show that this impact is positive, namely on high technology industries. Besides the view of monopolistic profits as innovation rewards, these results can be...

Quel est le métier d’un Professeur d’université et, plus spécifiquement, d’un Professeur de Management aujourd’hui ? Quelles sont ses diverses fonctions ? Quel est le véritable portefeuille d’activités d’un Professeur de Management au 21e siècle, à l’heure où la diffusion...

Sustainable open innovation often has idea generation as a key step. When faced with challenge of stimulating ideation, organizations have few things they are sure about. An experiment was conducted to identify what type of stimulating written communication yields the biggest number of submitted...