Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development A Comparative Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Assimakopoulos, Dimitris G. (Editor), Carayannis, Elias G. (Editor), Dossani, Rafiq (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
• Subjects: Management.; Industrial management.; Economic policy.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Economic Policy.

New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obvious need for organizations to innovate in order to compete, embedded in any NPD program are knowledge, technological expertise, and the social networks tha...

Table of Contents:

• How Path Dependency Affects Innovative Behavior of Firms
• Factors Affecting the Performance of New Product Development Teams: Some European Evidence
• Knowledge Flows in an NPD Team from the Semiconductor Industry
• Strategies for Fostering Local New Service Development Teams in CapGemini and the MINALOGIC Cluster in Grenoble
• Regional  Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises in European Regions
• Competencies for the “Technological Europe” of Tomorrow: A New Model and an Emerging Concept of Inter-organizational Competence
• The Leader-Member Relationship at the Core of Innovation Development: Member Perceptions, Positions and Expectations
• A Stepwise, Actor-based Approach to the Establishment of Science-Industry Co-operations
• Turning from Laggard to Leader in National Radical Innovation and Beyond
• Japanese Firms’ Innovation Strategies in the 21st Century: An Institutional View
• Preparing India’s Workforce for the Knowledge Economy...