European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 3 Issue 2

Management styles in industrial R&D organisations

Andrea Cavone, Vittorio Chiesa, Raffaella Manzini

This paper aims to understand whether there are different styles of organisation and management of industrial R&D activities. Recent cases of re‐organisation of R&D activities…

A sociotechnical approach to the innovation of a network technology in the public sector – the introduction of smart homes in West Lothian

Tony Kinder

The paper argues that some conventional tools guiding innovation processes inadequately analyse problems arising from blending telematics with public service integration in areas…

An integrated approach to innovative product development using Kano’s model and QFD

X.X. Shen, K.C. Tan, M. Xie

Under rapidly changing and highly competitive circumstances, the timely design, development and marketing of new products or services with creative and innovative features are…

From product innovation to solutions innovation: a new paradigm for competitive advantage

Charles Shepherd, Pervaiz K. Ahmed

Organisations have traditionally employed new product development frameworks to increase the effectiveness of their innovation programmes. These strategies have worked in the past…