When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology – initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

.e. to engage in Sustainability-oriented Innovation (SOI). This paper examines the suitability of innovation contests to … innovation contest in the shoe industry, we derive three strands of results. First, a large majority of the submissions belongs … that a vast majority of user submissions falls into the classes incremental innovation and radical conventional innovation …

Based on ß and o convergence analysis, we find a high persistence of innovation gaps for international innovation …