Adoption of Innovation

Alexander Brem is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Southern Denmark . Moreover, he is the founder and partner of VEND consulting GmbH, Nuremberg. His current research interests include idea and innovation management, technology management and entrepreneurship. He is author of several journal articles and books, as well as reviewer and editorial board member of various international journals, such as Technovation and the International Journal of Innovation Management.Eric Viardot is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at EADA Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Before joining academia, he worked in different management positions for Hewlett-Packard, MSF, and Bain & Company in Europe, Asia and North America. He has published various books and articles on strategic management and marketing with a strong focus on Technology and Innovation Management. He is the co-editor of the International Journal of Technology Marketing along with Alexander Brem. Eric is also an active consultant and trainer, and has worked with several major multinational corporations.

"The book offers readers that are interested in a certain area of innovation an effective way of embracing different facets of it. These varied research areas revealed throughout the chapters including but not limited to innovation and stakeholders (internal and external), adoption of innovation, business model innovations, vision and innovation can be considered the primary strength of the book. ... These qualities help in constructing a contemporary book that provides insight to practitioners and theoreticians of marketing." (Gokhan Aydin, Turkish Economic Review, Vol. 2 (3), September, 2015)

• Adoption of Innovation - Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the Marketing of Innovation.- Corporate Prediction Markets for Innovation Management.- Innovations in Consumer Science: Applications of Neuro-Scientific Research Tools.- Social Cognitive Theory and the Technology Acceptance Model in the Cloud Computing Context: The Role of Social Networks, Privacy Concerns and Behavioural Advertising.- Customer Co-Production and Service Innovation Characteristics: A Conceptual Argument.- Building Innovative Competitive Advantage in the Mind of Customers.- Institutions and Collaborative Innovation.- Organizing Open Innovation for Sustainability.- Visions and Radical Innovation: A Typology.- Innovating the Business Model: The Case of Space.- Real Options Reasoning and Innovative Performance in the Context of Dynamic Capabilities.- Uncovering Driving Forces for Better Product Innovation: Have Russian Firms Learned to Balance the Focus on Internal and External Partner?.