Projects
Alliances of Emerging and Developed Market Firms: Roots and Evolution of Competitive Advantages. Innovation and StrategyRoots and evolution of competitive advantages. Innovation and strategy.Roots and evolution of competitive advantages. Innovation and st KU Leuven
The thesis combines different streams of literature on brokerage, recognizing the role of brokers in facilitating research interactions between emerging and developed market firms. Specifically, in this work, it is argued that brokerage is critical in mitigating resource dependencies between partners, coping with partners’ psychic distances and managing institutional complexities – competing institutional logics of partners – in ...
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AGENDA WITH AND FOR SOCIETY: Leveraging digital innovation for a greener and healthier Europe Ghent University
With ENLIGHT RISE (Research and Innovation agenda with and for SociEty) we will support ENLIGHT in its R&I dimension, to deploy a comprehensive joint transformation agenda, in synergy with the educational component, in partnership with surrounding ecosystems, and with the overarching goal of serving our societal missions. The objective is to become more competitive and innovative together, leveraging and synergizing our respective ...
Disruptive innovation in healthcare requires disruptive innovation in medical ethics Ghent University
Several recent medical innovations do not conform with the way medicine traditionally operates, but rather blur the boundaries of medicine and/or side-line the doctor-patient relationship as an essential aspect of healthcare. Examples of this are healthcare apps, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, disease surveillance, electronic patient records, telehealth and certain types of clinical decision support systems. I postulate that several of ...
Sports innovation in organisational perspective. Modelling multi-level determinants of the innovation phases and types in the social profit sports sector KU Leuven
The concept of innovation has been given broadly academic attention, particular in a business context. Yet, the field of sports has received much less academic attention. This is remarkable, as the sports sector provides obvious and various benefits. In this regard, the literature has provided evidence of the healt benefits that sports can produce, or how sports can bring people together, etc. Because of this, sport is also increasingly being ...
Designing innovation tournaments to optimize the fuzzy front end of the innovation process. KU Leuven
The aim of the proposed doctoral research project is therefore to increase the understanding on how companies can adequately design innovation tournaments to optimize their performance in the FFE of the innovation process.
Improving the service innovation performance through capability management in service innovation networks: a longitudinal study in the healthcare industry Ghent University
To achieve competitive advantage in a service-centered economy, firms increasingly engage
networks of customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders in service innovation
processes. These service innovation networks (SINs) can even address complex service problems,
such as challenges in an aging society. Illustrative are smart home technologies coupled with care
packages from nearby nursing ...
Knowledge platform Innovation Care for Eldery regarding Testgarden Care Innovation Centre Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A testing ground is a structured test environment in which organizations can test innovative technologies, products, services and concepts, making use of a ...