... to decreasing returns, i.e. reaching a point in which more external knowledge may deteriorate. Second, the study demonstrates that in complex environments, Industry 4.0 enhances knowledge acquisition and creativity in a form that boosts firm's capacity to operate in complex production networks. This responds...

...Birgit Andrine Apenes Solem; Marko Kohtamäki; Vinit Parida; Thomas Brekke Purpose The present study sets out to understand how a manufacturing company in the maritime industry utilized creative design principles and developed service design routines to advance digital servitization (i.e...

...Matteo Cristofaro; Luna Leoni; Pier Luigi Giardino Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate how cognitive biases influence employees' product creativity (EPC) and related product performance. In particular, the paper primarily studies (1) the direct effect of employees' implicit...

... of organization to respond the technological turbulence will stimulate creativity of new product development teams to produce new useful ideas and transform these ideas to product innovation. The different types of organizing a new product development team to handle technological turbulence will provide different...

..., determination and prioritization of innovation factors can be done based on customers' viewpoint, while in the traditional approaches this was done only from the viewpoint of engineers and designers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Innovation Creativity Concurrent function deployment P...

... 2002 Innovation Creativity Manufacturing technology Operational research Problem solving Manufacturing technology R&D spend is inevitably limited by the financial constraints of an organisation. The drive to maximise manufacturing output benefit per dollar invested...