Today's leading enterprises are surrounded with business partners in their value chain. Next
to traditional outsourcing processes, partners can be involved in co-investing in innovation …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the importance of a strategic approach
to collaborative innovation and the use of a value chain research methodology for identifying …

Innovative product development and in-house process design have been largely studied
and methods such as Concurrent Engineering, Integrated Product Development or Dynamic …

Innovation is omnipresent in today's world. Yet, our understanding of innovation from a value
chain perspective has so far been piecemeal. The present paper aims to address this …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to briefly review earlier contributions to
partner/cooperative innovation with the aim of evaluating the application of the concept to …

The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to a theory of value co-creation by
integrating a case observation and conceptual insights from literature that are concerned …

Past research (along with our experience) suggests that a firm's supply chain (ie, value
chain) plays an integral role in its ability to not only reduce cost via process innovation, but …

This paper explores co-innovation, a phenomenon, in which supplier and customer actively
work on a new solution. Previous studies have highlighted the benefits of co-innovation but …

Co-innovation has been found to be difficult to control, but especially in industrial context,
where the potential partners for co-innovation are often important long-term customers, the …

In many industries, we observe a paradigm shift from traditional value creation towards
value co-creation and open production approaches. The boundaries of companies dissolve …