European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 20 Issue 3

How rumors and preannouncements foster curiosity toward products

Maria Sääksjärvi, Tripat Gill, Erik Jan Hultink

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the potentially positive role of rumors in generating curiosity about new products, and further shows how this prior knowledge through…

Science-industry R&D cooperation effects on firm’s appropriation strategy: The case of Argentine biopharma

Dario Milesi, Vladimiro Verre, Natalia Petelski

The purpose of this paper is to show how science-industry R&D cooperation (SIRC) generates effects on the strategy developed by firms to appropriate the benefits of innovations…

Communicating technological innovations: The role of technical complexity and product involvement

Timm F. Wagner, Christian V. Baccarella, Kai-Ingo Voigt

Consumers’ perceptions of new technologies are vital for the adoption of innovations. However, due to the complexity of technological innovations and associated consumer concerns…

Trust, integrated information technology and new product success

John E. Ettlie, Christopher Tucci, Peter T. Gianiodis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined roles via trust relationships of the two technology cores of the firm: information technology (IT) and R&D and their…

Innovation performance of Italian manufacturing firms: The effect of internal and external knowledge sources

Fabio de Oliveira Paula, Jorge Ferreira da Silva

The purpose of this paper is to explain how internal and external sources of knowledge influence the innovation performance (IP) in Italian manufacturing firms and how different…

Combining knowledge to generate novelty: a study of disclosed ideas for life science inventions

Taran Thune, Magnus Gulbrandsen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a combination of diverse sources of knowledge is important for generation of new ideas and address how institutional…

Openness and innovation performance: An empirical analysis of openness determinants and performance mediators

Valentina Lazzarotti, Lars Bengtsson, Raffaella Manzini, Luisa Pellegrini, Pierluigi Rippa

Focusing on some relevant constructs defined by the open innovation (OI) literature (i.e. determinants of openness; openness choices operationalized in terms of collaboration…

Innovation capacity, organisational culture and gender

David Cropley, Arthur Cropley

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of gender diversity on organisational capacity for innovation, and explore the factors that affect the relationship between…