Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education   

The traditional wisdom declares that companies that have their sights on export markets must first become innovators in their domestic markets. Innovation will give them the competitive advantage required to…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education   

How successful are your innovation efforts? For many companies, proof of groundbreaking innovation comes in the form of patents. The question about research productivity is often answered by how many…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    University of East Anglia   

In the early 1990s, large corporations started moving, slowly and almost imperceptibly at first, away from the kind of broad scientific research that led to such inventions as Nylon and…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Entrepreneurs innovating in the technology space often lack the know-how or “specialized complementary assets” within their companies to successfully commercialize their innovations. Consequently, to date, the academic literature on this…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

The factors that bring people together into a collaborative venture are varied. One is proximity and shared goals: people within a department, for example, have more opportunities to work together…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

Innovation through collaborative teams can succeed or fail in large part based on resources dedicated to the venture. While many factors may ultimately impact success or failure, all else being…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam    University of Amsterdam   

How can new product development (NPD) teams best generate ideas and develop them into viable concepts? The ‘obvious’ answer — through interaction and working together — is not necessarily the…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: HEC Paris    University of Greenwich   

Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development are increasingly linked to competitive advantage and innovation. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer have, in recent years, ‘reframed’ CSR as ‘shared…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    University of British Columbia   

New products and technologies often fail to depose inferior ‘incumbents’. (The classic example is the Dvorak keyboard, which, despite being more efficient, lost out to the original QWERTY model in…