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Ideas and Innovation

Ideas and Innovation

Innovative companies are not only threatened by price-based competitors building on innovations created and introduced by others, but repeatedly also by firms eager to innovate themselves. Under these circumstances, fostering innovation, developing advanced offerings, and preserving uniqueness becomes paramount especially for technology-oriented firms. This is not only true for developed countries, but also for emerging markets. To survive and expand in this environment, ideas, inventions, and ultimately innovations are crucial to sustain business success.

At the Chair of Technology Management, within this dedicated research area, we focus on key aspects for managing ideas with an emphasis on technology-oriented companies. We aim to answer the following research questions:

  • How can firms employ "creativity" and "charisma" to enhance their "Front-End Innovation" activities?
  • How to apply "creativity workshops" and "creativity techniques" in times of "Design Thinking"?
  • Which options exist to have efficient employee suggestion schemes or idea management systems?
  • How can the "innovation performance" of technology-oriented firms be measured reliably? Can "innovations performance" indicators be applied throughout the research and development (R&D) process to steer firms’ innovation activities?

Publications

  • Brem A., Bican P.:
    Forschungsförderung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen: Begrifflichkeiten und sachgerechte Abgrenzung
    In: Wirtschaftsdienst 97 (2017), p. 615-620
    ISSN: 0043-6275
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-017-2187-1
    URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10273-017-2187-1
  • Bican P., Guderian CC., Ringbeck A.:
    Managing Knowledge in Open Innovation Processes: An Intellectual Property Perspective
    In: Journal of Knowledge Management 21 (2017), p. 1384 - 1405
    ISSN: 1367-3270
    DOI: 10.1108/JKM-11-2016-0509
  • Conley JG., Bican P., Wilkof N.:
    WIPO Study on Patents and the Public Domain (II) - Impact of Certain Enterprise Practices
    (2013), p. 1-70
    URL: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/cdip_12/cdip_12_inf_2_rev.pdf
  • Weyer J., Tiberius V., Bican P., Kraus S.:
    Digitizing Grocery Retailing: The Role of Emerging Technologies in the Value Chain
    In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (2021), Article No.: 2050058
    ISSN: 0219-8770
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219877020500583
  • Nylund PA., Brem A., Agarwal N.:
    Innovation ecosystems for meeting sustainable development goals: The evolving roles of multinational enterprises
    In: Journal of Cleaner Production 281 (2021), Article No.: 125329
    ISSN: 0959-6526
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125329

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Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, NCT
Chair of Technology Management

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90762 Fuerth 
Germany
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