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*Call for Papers*

*Special Issue*
*Innovation Management and Innovation Networks*

Innovation is the creation and transformation of new knowledge into new 
products, processes, or services that meet market needs. As such, innovation creates 
new businesses and is the fundamental source of growth in business and 
industry and can be the key driver for the creation of more sustainable 
economies and company strategies.

The ability to generate and sustain innovation has become critical for 
companies as markets grow more global, open, and competitive, and as 
customer expectations grow more diverse and demanding.

This special issue wants to cover the current issues in 
*innovation management and innovationnetworks* and is interested in topics 
like: 

   - The impact of *new sustainability requirements* on the dynamic 
   capabilities that a firm should develop and sustain to remain innovative 
   and therewith competitive in turbulent environments. In particular, which 
   new innovation capabilities are required to integrate environmental, 
   social and financial objectives? 
   - How, and under what conditions, do *entrepreneurs in developing 
   countries* innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by 
   entrepreneurs in developing countries?
   - Balancing *capability building for radical and incremental innovations*. 
   Incremental innovationcapabilities consist of skills and competences 
   that refine existing products, while radicalinnovation capabilities are 
   covering skills which are needed to significantly transform existing 
   products or services. What kind of learning creates capabilities needed for 
   the generation of incremental or of radical innovations? What kind of 
   lessons can be taken respectively how to manage the process of developing 
   capabilities in innovation management?
   - Analysis of *innovation networks*: Economic operations and thus 
   innovations are embedded in social relations and structures. Therefore, the 
   organizational units that create innovation are not individual 
   businesses, but usually networks. From a resource point of view, networks 
   hold a variety of advantages for their members, such as access to material 
   and immaterial resources, information and knowledge. How can the *new 
   role of intermediaries* as an architect of collective exploration and 
   creation of knowledge in open innovation be described? What are the key 
   variables in the process of managing innovation networks? Any kind of 
   discussions and analysis of innovation networks are welcome.
   
This is not an exhaustive list.

*Deadline*
Full papers for this *special edition of 'management revue'* must be with 
the editors by *July 31st, 2014*. All submissions will be subject to a 
double blind review process. Please submit your papers electronically via 
the journal submission system at http://hermes.hsu-hh.de/mrev/ using '
Innovation Management' as article section.

*Looking forward to hearing from you!*

Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (
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Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg ([log in to unmask])
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany) (
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Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
*Simon Fietze*
Adjunkt/Assistant Professor

Syddansk Universitet
Institut for Grænseregionsforskning
Alsion 2, A2
6400 Sønderborg
Danmark
Telefon: +45 6550 1748
Fax: +45 6550 1779
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.sdu.dk/ansat/simonf/
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*Alsion 2 · 6400 Sønderborg · Tlf. 6550 1000 · www.sdu.dk 
<http://www.sdu.dk/>*
 
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
*Simon Fietze*
Adjunkt/Assistant Professor

Syddansk Universitet
Institut for Grænseregionsforskning
Alsion 2, A2
6400 Sønderborg
Danmark
Telefon: +45 6550 1748
Fax: +45 6550 1779
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.sdu.dk/ansat/simonf/
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*Alsion 2 · 6400 Sønderborg · Tlf. 6550 1000 · www.sdu.dk 
<http://www.sdu.dk/>*

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