The literature on the front end in the New Product Development (NPD) literature is
fragmented with respect to the identification and analysis of the factors that are critical to …

Product modularization in new product development has attracted considerable interest
among scholars and practitioners from diverse fields of specialization. This has resulted in …

Sustainability is a key driver of innovation for products, services, and business models.
Sustainability innovations are aimed at improving the environmental, social, and economic …

Overview: While Agile development approaches to physical products have allowed
companies to respond more quickly to change and increase R&D productivity, implementing …

Social media technologies that enable interactive feedback during idea generation can
complement existing modes of knowledge exchange in innovation management. Especially …

Although universally recognized as an important consideration in building product
development (PD) competency, the effect of a firm's ability to vary its PD practices to develop …

Needs, market structures, business models, and relationships concerning radical
innovations (RIs) are unpredictable and, consequently, firms face critical challenges in …

We study how sourcing of applied and basic knowledge is related to the likelihood and
speed at which inventions become innovations as well as their profitability. By using a patent …

Despite growing research on front-end indicators, the understanding of the evaluation of
innovative ideas in the early stages of the innovation process within a company remains …

The fuzzy front end (FFE) of new product development (NPD), ie the phase preceding the
formal product development, is characterized by ill-defined processes, ad-hoc decisions …