Not even brilliant ideas advance themselves. In all organizations, proactive efforts are required to translate opportunities into actual improvements. However, most research on proactivity in entrepreneurship and product design has addressed dispositional antecedents, and research in general tends to focus on goal setting, idea generation, and decision-making. But what happens after the initial decision to pursue an idea has been made? In this dissertation, a qualitative approach building on 4566 interview segments from 80 interviews in 13 organizations was used to explore how the process of proactive striving in product design and entrepreneurship is initiated and sustained. The four empirical essays included one experiment on how product...
An increasing amount of companies have started to recognize design and innovation as ways to create ...
Most successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have...
This thesis studies the possibility of making a business idea work in real life. The theoretical par...
In recent decades, companies' operating principles have changed. As a result of increased competiti...
The objective of this thesis is to analyse the key competencies required when facilitating a design-...
Front-end of innovation, the phase preceding formal product development project, has been described ...
In the field of entrepreneurial behavior research, there is a growing need to find new methods to st...
Abstract The ability to generate creative new ideas to develop innovative products and optimize pro...
In discussions of firm strategy, proactivity is often mentioned as an enabler of effective goal acco...
The capability to innovate is increasingly at the core of the success and survival of companies. The...
Emphasis on creativity and innovation differentiates product design from many other organizational t...
Purpose– Innovations lie at the heart of both entrepreneurship and marketing. While research has lon...
This research evaluates designers' possibilities to work at applied research and foresightning, whic...
The front end of innovation is often the most troublesome phase of companies’ innovation process. In...
The most urgent problems of our times – the environmental sustainability for example – are complex a...
An increasing amount of companies have started to recognize design and innovation as ways to create ...
Most successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have...
This thesis studies the possibility of making a business idea work in real life. The theoretical par...
In recent decades, companies' operating principles have changed. As a result of increased competiti...
The objective of this thesis is to analyse the key competencies required when facilitating a design-...
Front-end of innovation, the phase preceding formal product development project, has been described ...
In the field of entrepreneurial behavior research, there is a growing need to find new methods to st...
Abstract The ability to generate creative new ideas to develop innovative products and optimize pro...
In discussions of firm strategy, proactivity is often mentioned as an enabler of effective goal acco...
The capability to innovate is increasingly at the core of the success and survival of companies. The...
Emphasis on creativity and innovation differentiates product design from many other organizational t...
Purpose– Innovations lie at the heart of both entrepreneurship and marketing. While research has lon...
This research evaluates designers' possibilities to work at applied research and foresightning, whic...
The front end of innovation is often the most troublesome phase of companies’ innovation process. In...
The most urgent problems of our times – the environmental sustainability for example – are complex a...
An increasing amount of companies have started to recognize design and innovation as ways to create ...
Most successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have...
This thesis studies the possibility of making a business idea work in real life. The theoretical par...