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Miccichè, N.M. (author)The "Sustainability Maker" is an initiative that aims to the creation of bottom-up approaches that leverage on recent phenomena such as crowd sourcing and crowd funding and is conducted on an online platform. The project investigate the possibility to integrate a Brazilian community in the strategic framework of the "Sustainability Maker". The...master thesis 2014
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Shah, K. (author)The ‘Stats’ page on Kickstarter.com claims a total of $1,221,791,199 pledged to 65,673 successfully funded projects by 6,613,502 supporters as of today (July 18th, 2014). The tenets of web 2.0 and crowd-based innovation platforms are enabling ordinary but motivated user-innovators to create and own disruptive innovations. This is also pushing...master thesis 2014
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Stek, P.E. (author), Van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author)The paper explores the innovative performance of 9 high and medium-high technology manufacturing industries across 29 countries based on patent and R&D expenditure data. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the benefits of particular forms of collaboration have a significant positive effect on innovative performance at the national...conference paper 2014
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Kroese, T.A. (author)Literature Open innovation (OI) is an activity that enables knowledge to be transferred across traditional company boundaries. Although sharing knowledge is not something new, the broad scope of collaborations, and the implementation of external knowledge throughout the entire innovation process make open innovation something unique. The...master thesis 2014
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Blik, T.G. (author)Academic spin-off firms tend to grow slowly which decreases the effectiveness of policies enhancing the knowledge based economy. The average growth of the 105 academic spin-off firms in this research is 1.2 fte per year, however the median is only 0.4 fte per year. In order to increase the speed at which academic spin-off firms grow, insight in...master thesis 2013
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Michavila, J. (author)Responsible Innovation seems to undoubtedly becoming an inexorable and necessary trend. That is, society calls for a higher embedding of values and ethics within the innovation process, especially with regards to sustainability. However, so far practical application of Responsible Innovation frameworks remains mostly at policy or academic level,...master thesis 2013
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Blomberg, F.L. (author)The process of New Product Development is one of the most important competitive factors in today’s market environment. Nevertheless, it remains an risky and uncertain business and both the academic field as companies try to identify best practices to improve this process. In the past two decades, firms have increasingly adopted Information...master thesis 2013
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Arief, T.B. (author)Several public bodies have opened their data through open data platforms to promote transparency, participation, and collaboration among government’s stakeholders. This action stimulates open innovation in reusing those open government data. Yet, the study about the potential of open data platform to stimulate open innovation in the public...master thesis 2013
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De Graaf, R. (author), Van der Duin, P.M. (author)Since many of today's problems are becoming ever more complex, the way we look for and manage innovations to solve these problems should also be innovated. We introduce the ‘Collective Innovation’ approach to deal with these kind of ‘wicked problems’ that require the input of many different parties. Furthermore, in Collective Innovation it is...journal article 2013
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Van 't Klooster, R. (author)To deal with external changes and the current position of Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), it was decided that RAD’s current business model should be modified such that RAD will become a systems integrator. This research examined the potential transition towards this new business model with a focus on the involvement of external partners and the...master thesis 2012
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El Hilali, H. (author)This research is based on a multiple case study research within the food-products multinational corporation Danone, specifically within the segment Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition. In this study, the process of the front end of open innovation projects within Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition was studied and explored for an application of...master thesis 2012
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Wei, D. (author)In the fast developing knowledge economy age, the internal resources of an enterprise are usually not enough for proper development, and cooperation with external organizations becomes a popular approach for many enterprises to improve their knowledge storage and technology level, the background of which is called open innovative environment....master thesis 2012
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Mataich, F. (author)This project focuses on the Peulen company. The Peulen company is currently active in the woodworking industry as a) machine supplier. The first phase of this project is the internal analysis of the Peulen company concerning the current state of the company. This is done in order to establish the strengths and weaknesses of the Peulen company....master thesis 2012
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Soetanto, D. (author), Van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author)Enhancing the establishment and growth of spin-off firms from university is receiving an increased attention in local and regional policy today. University spin-off firms are typically in short of resources, reason why social networks play a vital role in their early growth. There is however a lack of understanding of the profile of these...conference paper 2012
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Ye, Q. (author)As an extension to the research on “Open Innovation”, this thesis, based on an empirical study of university spin-offs (USOs), intends to make some contributions to the increasing understanding of “openness”, not only for micro and small size firms, but also in another context other than U.S.. Moreover, instead of analyzing from a traditional...master thesis 2012
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Van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author), Nijkamp, P. (author)Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge networks on a global scale. However, there is not much insight into the factors that shape knowledge networks, the role of virtualization herein and the...journal article 2011
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Zehtabchi, S. (author)Nowadays, many researchers and companies are seeking to provide answers to a fundamental question: “How can an organization apply collective intelligence through open innovation and crowdsourcing to create competitive advantage?” On the other hand, the global growth of on-line sales, the web 2.0 revolution and the ability to reach users,...master thesis 2011
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Bärtsch, J.K. (author)Swisscom Schweiz AG (SC) is the number one telecommunications provider in Switzerland. As the company is currently undergoing a transition from serving telecommunications only to expanding its offering to include internet, multimedia and entertainment solutions, the company is getting into a broader and fiercer field of competition. SC...master thesis 2011
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Beelaerts van Blokland, W.W.A. (author)With the creation of new aircraft products; Embraer E-170/190, Dassault 7X, Airbus A380 and Boeing B787, aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) involve suppliers not only with the co-production of aircraft sub systems, but also with the entire development of sub systems, like fuselage and wings. Hence, the value to create and produce...doctoral thesis 2010
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Rydell, M.C. (author)Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and in this sector also the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. The dutch regional office of Festo has in the past decade experienced a change in their relationships with customers. Not only has their market changed from a technology push to a...master thesis 2010