The extensive research we have carried out over the past decade has led to several interesting publications in renowned journals. Please find an overview of examples below:
Bringing the College Inside, Harvard Business Review, Dec 2005 (click to open)
The article describes how we helped Porsche strengthen their innovation leadership by organizing a strategic university competition to solve extreme innovation challenges.
Why Know-Who Trumps Know-How, Strategy & Business, Apr 2002 (click to open)
In this article, we introduce a six-step guide to the promotion of corporate entrepreneurship and the exploitation of innovation.
Entrepreneurship through Relationships - Navigating from Creativity to Commercialisation, R&D Management 2008 (click to open)
This paper explores the role of relationships in the emergence of a network’s value creation structure. Anoto who revolutionized digtial writing is highlighted as illustrative example.
Transformation Networks in Innovation Alliances – The Development of Volvo C70 – Journal of Management Studies (click to open)
In this article, a detailed case of the Volvo C70 development is analysed with focus on how the full innovation from exploration to exploitation of innovation seem to rely on fundamentally different types and structures of networks.
Improving R&D Performance through Networking – Lessons from Canon and Sony (click to open)
In this article, it is argued that external sourcing of advanced technologies and their related competencies actually enhances a company’s ability to perform market-driven R&D and to commercialize these technologies. Examination of how Canon and Sony keep their R&D activities responsive to market needs is provided, and then the link between R&D and Manufacturing is discussed.
The Japanese Approach to Innovation: Research for D&M (click to open)
In this article you will find answers to the following questions: why is it that Japanese companies manage to commercialize new technologies that fail to reach the factory floor in most Western companies? How do they transfer their Research efforts to Manufacturing?
This paper reviews 100 papers on the topic of Industry–University (I/U) collaborations to identify the drivers and main-barriers to such collaborations. It reveals that the greatest challenges from the companies’ point-of-view reside in steering the collaborative project towards business-objectives, and internalising the results for corporate technology innovation impact.
In the context of global R&D, we connect literature on knowledge management to a network-based theoretical framework helpful to explain the impact of R&D globalisation on innovation performance.
