Developing Innovations Based on Analogies: Experience from Design and Engineering Consultants Katharina Kalogerakis, Christian Lüthje and Cornelius Herstatt kHUB post date: October 7, 2020 Originally published: March 22, 2010 (PDMA JPIM • Vol 27, Issue 3 • May 2010) Read time: 1 hour Access the Full Article This study explores how specialized design and engineering companies offering services to clients in diverse industries use inventive analogies in the product design process
Use Needs-Based Segmentation for Innovation Scott Burleson kHUB post date: January 12, 2021 Read time: 12 minutes Market segmentation is the process of dividing a market into smaller bits
Reviewing the Intellectual Structure of Product Modularization: Toward a Common View and Future Research Agenda Kai G
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer-based language models Sebastian G
The present study departs from existing viewpoints on the topic and proposes a strategic orientation view. By integrating the resource‐based view and the demand‐side perspective, we examine the impact of strategic orientation in business model design on the performance of start‐ups in the digital economy
Customer heterogeneity and innovation-based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda Amali Wijekoon, Sandeep Salunke, Gerard A. Athaide kHUB post date: September 24, 2021 Originally published: May 4, 2021 (PDMA JPIM • Vol 38, Issue 3 • May 2021) Read time: 1 minute abstract, 25 minutes full JPIM article Access Full Article Managing customer heterogeneity (CH), that is, differences among customers (e.g., consumers, business firms) is an important, yet challenging consideration for firms seeking innovation-based competitive advantage. To facilitate better understanding of the opportunities and challenges that CH presents, we conducted a systematic review of the literature linking CH with innovation-based competitive advantage
Capturing product/service improvement ideas from social media based on lead user theory Chang Yin, Cuiqing Jiang, Hemant K
We develop hypotheses by combining economic rationality of natural-resource-based view and institutional rationality of institution-based view
A tale of two distractions: How institutional forces influence R&D-based problemistic search in transition economies Renfei Gao, Jane Wenzhen Lu, Helen Wei Hu, Geoffrey Martin kHUB post date: December 21, 2023 Originally published: January 14, 2023 (PDMA JPIM • Vol. 40, Issue 5 • September 2023) Read time: 50 minutes Access the Full Article The behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) suggests that firms are motivated to increase R&D search in response to profitability shortfalls—that is, R&D-based problemistic search
Although modularity increases overall firm performance, a holistic view is missing for the relationship between modularity and new product advantage (i.e., a new product's superiority relative to competing products)