Opening the innovation process represents a new opportunity for small, medium and large firms to increase the internal innovative capacity and to raise their overall innovation performance. Although large firms still realised the higher amount of innovation, few studies have paid attention to open innovation (OI) in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how the use of OI practices in SMEs differ from large enterprises. Starting from the findings in Spithoven (2013) that SMEs can foster the introduction of new offerings through collaboration with several innovation partners and that collaboration with partners increases the likelihood that SMEs launch new products and services, we investigate through a web-based survey realised in Italy how organisational factors, strategic factors and environmental factors impact on the ability of a firm to adopt an OI approach, if size matters, and whether innovation intermediaries play a critical role in the opening process.
Implementing a performance measurement system (PMS) for research and development (R&D) is fundamental for supporting decision making and motivating researchers and engineers; however, this is a very challenging task, because effort levels are not measurable and success highly uncertain. Even if the subject has largely been debated in academic and practitioners literature so far, an acknowledged managerial approach is not available yet. This paper investigates the implementation and use of a PMS in new product development (NPD) projects, which represents a relatively unexplored issue in the R&D performance measurement debate. In particular, studying the case of a military aircraft development project, it provides a reference framework that integrates the major literature contributions’ findings and suggests a practical approach for the design and implementation of an effective PMS for NPD.
This research examines how the family status of the business and the degree of family involvement in the management of family firms moderate the relationship between business-partner collaboration and technological innovation performance. We provide empirical evidence by using a panel data of roundly 12,000 observations on Spanish manufacturing firms via regression analysis. Results show that the family status of the firm moderates the relationship between business-partner collaboration and innovation in a way that it reduces the likelihood of achieving higher innovation performance. Furthermore, within the group of family firms, the interaction between the degree of family involvement in the management and the business-partners collaboration has a negative and significant impact on the innovation performance.
Over the last few years, the increasing market turbulence and competition, the time reduction of products life cycle and the increased variety of products and services have required companies to be more flexible in order to respond effectively to market requirements. In today global competitive environment, one of most important decision that managers deal with is the innovation and developing of the technology: inside o trough external organisations? In this perspective, nowadays companies aim at developing only their own core competences and to outsource no-core activities, even commonly considered strategic, like RD Kelley, 2001; Chiesa et al., 2004). What it is still not studied, in depth and in a wider sample, it is the way these firms are managed (in terms of structure, organisation, services provided, and network of collaborations, etc.).
The consolidation of Open Innovation (OI) as necessary approach to understand the ability of firms to innovate has demanded more sustained efforts to unfold the continuous connection with other relevant actors across its systems of production (Arabshahi et al., 2014; Chesbrough, 2006; JimenezJimenez et al., 2019). Central to this is the emphasis on a pursuit of knowledge and collaboration from components of the supply chain (SC) (Miyamoto, 2020). Despite the undeniable relationship between these two terms, authors have pointed out that not enough research has occurred (Ardito et al., 2020; Jimenez-Jimenez et al., 2019; R. A. E. Shamah & Elssawabi, 2015; Smith & Blundel, 2012). Therefore, this paper is intended to contribute to the research gap by examining on how the concepts of SC and OI are related in the current state-of-the-art. To accomplish it, a systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted.
The transition towards a more circular development requires the activation of several key Circular Economy (CE) enablers. Their combination generates a complex system that aims to advance towards a more sustainable development. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has created many changes in this global economy, altering the interactions between nature, people, governments, and businesses. The effects were mainly felt by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This study analyzes the present state of CE enablers for SMEs considering a sustainability assessment overview. Eight CE enablers that have changed because of the pandemic were especially identified through an exhaustive literature review and have been analyzed by the involvement of 29 scholars and practitioners. The results generated with the application of a fuzzy TOPSIS methodology, evidence that 'digital technologies', 'green consumption', and 'circular entrepreneurship' are the CE enablers with the greatest potential to contribute to a more circular and sustainable development in the post-pandemic.
This study explores the open innovation (OI) choices in terms of partner-type, their determinants and the related innovation performance in family firms (FFs) with respect to non-FFs by means of a European cross-country survey. Results show that FFs are in general less open than non-FFs when we consider openness in terms of breadth, while they are more open when we consider openness in terms of depth. Distinctive determinants of depth for FFs regards the level of aggressiveness of their innovation strategy when scientific partners are considered. These partners are more important for FFs than for non-FFs to achieve efficiency-type performance. Moreover, a peculiar context shapes the relationship between partner-type depths and innovation performance: the external social capital (ESC) is more relevant for FFs to achieve novelty-type performance, while the internal social capital (ISC) exerts a particularly negative role for them when efficiency-type performance is considered.
This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be undertaken. This enlightening book focuses on the single industrial firm to study performance measurement of R&D functions, projects and individual researchers or engineers. It also addresses the R&D evaluation from the point of view of financial markets, with a focus on the relationships between R&D investments and the value of the traded firm.
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