Concurrent engineering performance: Incremental versus radical innovation

Determining factors influencing radical and incremental innovation with a case study in the petrochemical industry

“…But in the radical innovation, new technologies are used for creating new and unknown requirements of the customers and the target market (Johnson, 2005). Incremental innovation helps in introducing goods and services with new features or modifications in current technologies and products (Valle and Vazquez-Bustelo, 2009). The focus of radical innovation is on market pull or technology of push strategy (Li et al, 2008).…”

Antecedents of functional integration during new product development: The purchasing–marketing link

“…Depending on multiple factors, such as industry context or the kind of innovation (incremental vs. radical), this participation may take a sequential or a concurrent approach during the different NPD stages (e.g. Swink & Song, 2007;Valle & Vázquez-Bustelo, 2009). Otherwise, using the metaphor proposed by Takeuchi and Nonaka (1986), the different stages can be undertaken either as in a "relay race" or as in a "game of rugby".…”

Hybrid Innovation. The Italian Machine Tool Industry Case

“…An increasing trend towards "networking" also emerges, with particular attention to those themes that are crucial for firms survival and competitiveness: as regards Italy, this phenomenon is increasingly spreading over, mainly about R&D and production. In fact, cooperation in innovation and product development fields, turns out to be very effective (Valle, Vázquez-Bustelo 2009). This behaviour can be highlighted in particular in industrial districts (Chiarvesio et al 2004), and in medium-tech and high-tech productions, in order to better compete on global markets with a very intense rivalry (Brondoni 2008).…”

“…It is well recognized that innovation, especially if characterized as internal formal R&D, allows the creation of products more capable of meeting the market needs, and it also produces highly positive spillovers and synergies (Catozzella, Vivarelli 2007;Valle, Vázquez-Bustelo 2009), also from the point of view of the employees' number and qualification (Piva, Vivarelli 2009). So, human capital turns out to be one of the most important hallmarks of the Italian firms in the machine tool industry, so that the statement "made by Italians" has been proposed instead of the more classical "made in Italy" (Rizzi et al 2012).…”