New Perspectives in Innovation Failure Analysis: A taxonomy of general errors and strategic management for reducing risks
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Keywords
Innovation failure; Goal failure; Innovation management; Adaptation; Decision support; Bathtub curve; Concorde effect; Project management; Learning effects; Learning from failures; Error orientation; New product development; Project failure; Risk taking; Organizational learning; Failure behaviors; Failure rate; Failure management; Organizational performance; Failure risk; Bounded rationality; Satisficing strategy; Management of technology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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