-end-related activities in 28 innovation projectscarried out by 14 German and 13 Japanese companies to reduce project uncertainty. Inall cases … we observed a range of activities to reduce project specific risks and revealeddifferences in the practice of innovation …”, activities andtypical deliverables in the innovation process which might be affected by front endmanagement practice.Overall, in …

Strong market orientation is essential for innovation success!” Although both academics and market research … innovation strategies. Due to their focus on what is currently on offer in the marketplace, customers primarily demand so … research can alone allow innovation management to develop attractive search fields for radical innovations and if it can also …

, and managers often indicate the front end as being one of the greatest weaknesses in product innovation. Therefore, it is … surprising that only little research has treated the so called "fuzzy front end" of innovation. In this paper we discuss if …

leveraging production facilities in emerging economies. The innovation capacity of many firms is however hampered by a number of … barriers to innovation, e.g. resource constraints. They hinder the firm’s capacity to invent and successfully commercialize new …

chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute to innovation. Further, user innovation success in the market is … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date …

User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the … field of lead users and user innovation, scientific literature provides only a few insights into how barriers are … research into the effects of user innovation barriers on user-generated products, and how user innovators' personal …