This paper provides the discussion regarding the nature, origins and diversity of innovation
ecosystems with particular emphasis on the context of the emerging economies and “smart …

This paper highlights distinctive features of technological catch-up in complex product
systems (CoPS). This paper contrasts catch-up trends in CoPS with trends in mass-market …

Process development is key to competitiveness in process industries. However, budget
overruns frequently plague process development projects which span organizational …

Purpose Western business-to-business firms are under increasing competition from firms in
emerging nations. As examples, Mindray in medical devices, LiuGong in earth moving …

Production planning conflict (PPC) is a key factor leads to production delay in manufacturing
system. As production planning of complex product system (CoPS) is more complex than …

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) platform for group enterprises (GE) is a kind of private CMfg,
which is to integrate and optimize GE's internal resources and capacity for large complex …

In this paper we investigate whether technologies recently introduced on the market can be
a threat for existing firms. We use the theory of disruptive innovation and we propose the …

New market disruption is an important type of disruptive innovation, and it has been
recognized as an important innovation activity in engineering field with dynamic …

The relationship between ubiquitous technologies and organisational matters remains
under-theorised. In this article, ubiquitous revolution is scrutinised within the framework of …

Within this paper, the authors present the early result of the study focusing on the evolution
of the technical invention by using patents as a proxy for technology development. In looking …