European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 19 Issue 1

The gender dimension in knowledge and technology transfer – the German case

Kathinka Best, Anna Sinell, Marie Lena Heidingsfelder, Martina Schraudner

Knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) and particularly academic entrepreneurship (Klofsten and Jones-Evans, 2000) are indispensable for economic growth and wealth creation. In…

Spatial health and life sciences business ecosystem: a case study of San Diego

Jukka Majava, Pekka Leviäkangas, Tuomo Kinnunen, Pekka Kess, Del Foit

Increasing competition in global markets requires many countries to seek new growth sectors. In addition, the nature of competition is changing. This paper applies the business…

Boundary emergence in inter-organizational innovation: The influence of strategizing, identification and sensemaking

Pernille Smith

Inter-organizational innovation is becoming an attractive development form in view of the complexity of many of today’s innovations. However, inter-organizational innovation does…

What makes an “innovation champion”?

Natalya Sergeeva

The purpose of this paper is to explore how an “innovation champion” identity is formulated in the context of UK construction sector. A conceptual model of “innovation champion”…

Inter-organizational network configurations for ski areas innovations

Véronique Favre-Bonté, Elodie Gardet, Catherine Thevenard-Puthod

Unlike industrial innovations, service innovations cannot be protected by patents or designs. Thus, the implementation of innovation networks is often crucial to generate a…

Adapting to the changing needs of managing innovative projects

Satu Rekonen, Tua A. Björklund

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the changes in managerial activities and challenges at different phases of innovative projects.

Competitive advantage through innovation: the case of Nespresso

Alexander Brem, Maximilian Maier, Christine Wimschneider

– The purpose of this paper is to describe how Nespresso achieved competitive advantage through innovation by changing the rules of the game in its industry.