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Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development

A Comparative Approach

  • Showcases cutting-edge research on new product development in a globalized environment, with implications for business competitiveness, technology management, and economic policy
  • Considers the impact of outsourcing and offshoring on NPD, R&D and knowledge management
  • Global research team, with coverage of US, Europe, and Asia; features cases studies from biotech, nanotech, IT, and semiconductor industries

Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. How Path Dependency Affects Innovative Behavior of Firms

    • Elias G. Carayannis, Kadri Ukrainski, Jaan Masso, Urmas Varblane
    Pages 1-28
  3. Factors Affecting the Performance of New Product Development Teams: Some European Evidence

    • Klas Eric Soderquist, Konstantinos Kostopoulos
    Pages 29-48
  4. Knowledge Flows in an NPD Team from the Semiconductor Industry

    • Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Bernard Chapelet
    Pages 49-74
  5. Strategies for Fostering Local New Service Development Teams in CapGemini and the MINALOGIC Cluster in Grenoble

    • Bernard Chapelet, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Frederique Pedreno
    Pages 75-98
  6. Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises in European Regions

    • Knut Koschatzky, Andrea Zenker, Elisabeth Baier
    Pages 99-122
  7. Preparing India’s Workforce for the Knowledge Economy

    • Rafiq Dossani, Murali Patibandla
    Pages 223-251
  8. Bayh–Dole and Alternative University Technology Transfer Regimes

    • Martin Kenney, Donald Patton
    Pages 253-268
  9. How Leading Firms Manage Product Safety in NPD

    • Andy Yunlong Zhu, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Maximilian von Zedtwitz
    Pages 287-306
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 307-330

About this book

New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obvious need for organizations to innovate in order to compete, embedded in any NPD program are knowledge, technological expertise, and the social networks that convert these capabilities into offerings that create value at every level—for customers, industries, communities, and regions. 

 

This volume provides an array of knowledge perspective in NPD across multiple levels of analysis and geographic regions, including Europe, the United States, China, Japan, and India, to explore the dynamics of NPD in today’s global environment.   Presenting case studies from such industries as ICT services, semiconductors, software development, bio-technology, higher education, and even safety for children’s toys, and drawing from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including technology and knowledge management, sociology, economic geography, and organizational behavior, the authors highlight critical success and failure factors in NPD.

 

Among the topics covered:

  • New product development teams, including multi-functional and multi-site teams
  • De-localization and off-shoring of tasks and processes
  • Individual competencies and organizational capabilities
  • University-industry interactions, high-tech clusters, and technology transfer
  • Technology policy

Editors and Affiliations

  • Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble CX, France

    Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos

  • School of Business, George Washington University, Washington, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

  • Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research, Center (APARC), Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Rafiq Dossani

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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