Converting inventions into innovations in large firms: How inventors at Xerox navigated the innovation process to commercialize their ideas
Vinokurova, N., & Kapoor, R.
· 2020
· Strategic Management Journal, 41(13), 2372–2399
commercialization
corporate entrepreneurship
innovation
inventors
organizational inertia
resource allocation
xerox
The article examines how inventors inside large firms help commercialize breakthrough inventions despite organizational inertia. Using historical cases from Xerox PARC, the authors show that...
Managing innovation portfolios: From project selection to portfolio design
Si, H., Kavadias, S., & Loch, C.
· 2022
· Production and Operations Management, 31(12), 4572–4588
innovation
portfolio design
portfolio management
project selection
strategy
uncertainty
The article argues that innovation portfolio management has focused too much on selecting projects from a given list and not enough on designing a portfolio that fits the organization’s st...