Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development

1. How Path Dependency Affects Innovative Behavior of Firms
Elias G. Carayannis, Kadri Ukrainski, Jaan Masso, Urmas Varblane

2. Factors Affecting the Performance of New Product Development Teams: Some European Evidence
Klas Eric Soderquist, Konstantinos Kostopoulos

3. Knowledge Flows in an NPD Team from the Semiconductor Industry
Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Bernard Chapelet

4. Strategies for Fostering Local New Service Development Teams in CapGemini and the MINALOGIC Cluster in Grenoble
Bernard Chapelet, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Frederique Pedreno

5. Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises in European Regions
Knut Koschatzky, Andrea Zenker, Elisabeth Baier

6. Competencies for the “Technological Europe” of Tomorrow: A New Model and an Emerging Concept of Interorganizational Competence
Pierre-Yves Sanséau

7. The Leader–Member Relationship at the Core of Innovation Development: Member Perceptions, Positions, and Expectations
Jérôme Barrand, Pierre-Yves Sanséau, Guillaume Ferrante

8. A Stepwise, Actor-Based Approach to the Establishment of Science–Industry Co-operations
Joachim Hemer, Henning Kroll

9. Turning from Laggard to Leader in National Radical Innovation and Beyond
Stefan Hüsig

10. Japanese Firms’ Innovation Strategies in the Twenty-First Century: An Institutional View
Robert Eberhart, Glenn Hoetker

11. Preparing India’s Workforce for the Knowledge Economy
Rafiq Dossani, Murali Patibandla

12. Bayh–Dole and Alternative University Technology Transfer Regimes
Martin Kenney, Donald Patton

13. Cooperative Innovation in the Chinese Biotechnology Industry: An Analysis Based on Chinese and US Patents from 2000 to 2007
Yantai Chen

14. How Leading Firms Manage Product Safety in NPD
Andy Yunlong Zhu, Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos, Maximilian Zedtwitz

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, R & D/Technology Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Economic Policy