TY - JOUR
AU - Frattini, Federico
AB - In the ‘knowledge economy’ upheld by the European Lisbon strategy, knowledge‐intensive services are considered a key driver for innovation and competitiveness. A category of knowledge‐intensive services that has become of utmost importance in the last few decades is new product development (NPD) services, which interconnect distant knowledge domains with the client firms. In addition to NPD service providers, web‐based innovation intermediaries have started to help innovative firms access dispersed bodies of knowledge. Despite the heterogeneity of their characteristics, however, a clear typology of the strategies used by traditional NPD service providers and web‐based intermediaries to interact with their knowledge sources and with their clients is missing. This typology would be very useful for those firms that are willing to collaborate with innovation intermediaries because it could highlight the typologies of NPD problems different intermediaries are apt to address and the managerial challenges that working with them entails. Developing such a classification framework is the main goal of this paper.
TI - Exploring the contribution of innovation intermediaries to the new product development (NPD) process: a typology and an empirical study
JF - R & D Management
DO - 10.1111/radm.12056
DA - 2015-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/exploring-the-contribution-of-innovation-intermediaries-to-the-new-7dLLvPw1LT
SP - 126
EP - 146
VL - 45
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -