More and more companies realign their competencies to offer integrated bundlesof products and services with the goal to solve customer problems (Leimeister etal. 2009). The customers are not interested in products or services per se, but theywant their problems to be solved (Böhmann und Krcmar...

Eine möglichst vollständige Erfüllung von Kundenanforderungen und eine Differenzierungvon Wettbewerbern sind zwei Faktoren, die produzierende oder dienstleistungsanbietendeUnternehmen beeinflussen (Böhmann und Krcmar 2007,Leimeister und Glauner 2008). Deswegen ändern viele Unternehmen ihre...

Over the past two decades Wales has been quite successful in developing industrial clusters inautomotive components and electronics, but is still relatively weak in areas thought important tolong term manufacturing competitiveness, notably Research and Development (R&D). Thispaper examines...

This paper proposes a new model for studying the new product development process inan artificial environment. We show how connectionist models can be used to simulatethe adaptive nature of agents’ learning exhibiting similar behavior as practically experiencedlearning curves. We study the...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden zunächst die Grundlagen zu Evolutionären Algorithmen geschaffen. Es wurdendie zugrunde liegenden biologischen Prinzipien erläutert sowie die Algorithmen ES und GA vorgestellt undabgegrenzt. Eine bibliometrische Analyse identifizierte die zentralen...

Developing new innovative products in the automotive industry means investing huge sums in advance, as one does not know if th product will be successful on the market after launch. The paper discusses the results of a qualitative meta-analysis of 16 empirical studies on New Product Development...

1.Ein Großteil der Innovationsentwicklung wird durch die Regulierung von Emissions- und Sicherheitsbestimmungen beeinflusst. Elektronik und damit Software zur Steuerung wird für den Großteil zukünftiger Innovationen die Querschnittstechnologie darstellen.2.Auf den Innovationsfeldern werden...

Corporate innovation management geared to long-term success calls for a strategy to grow innovations into a substantial competitive advantage. This, however, coincides with an enormous failure-rate at the market, especially in the field of breakthrough innovations...

The domain of New Product Development (NPD) is subject to considerable uncertainties.However, companies are required to manage the innovation process as efficiently as possible.The resulting conflicting demands often leave companies struggling to achieve both,efficiency as well as flexibility...