Pushing the Innovation Envelope: Market Creation, Preference Markets, and Climate Change

• Session Chair:
• Elisa Fredericks, Northern Illinois University

Market Creation as an Entrepreneurial Marketing Process

• Jenny Darroch
• Masatoshi Ito, Claremont Graduate University
• Morgan P. Miles, Georgia Southern University

Preference Markets: Organizing Securities Markets for Opinion Surveys with Infinite Scalability

• Ely Dahan, University of California Los Angeles
• Arina Soukhoroukova
• Martin Spann, University of Passau

Climate Change Imperative and New Product Strategy: Assessing Extant Knowledge and Framing a Research Agenda

• Ashish Pujari
• Elko Kleinschmidt, McMaster University

Imperatives of the 'Front End': Navigation, User Inputs, and Market Focus

• Session Chair:
• Kenneth B.Kahn, University of Tennessee

How Serial Innovators Navigate the Fuzzy Front End of New Product Development

• Lt. Nathan Hoffmann, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Abbie Griffin, University of Utah
• Raymond L. Price
• Bruce A. Vojak, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Influence of Users' Ideas on Radical versus Incremental New Product Ideation - The Role of Technology Awareness and Motivation

• Per Kristensson
• Peter R. Magnusson, Karlstad University

The Role of Future-Market Focus in the Early Stages of NPD across Varying Levels of Innovativeness

• Lisa M. Lindgren, St. John's University
• Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Incorporating Users and Customers in the Innovation Process

• Session Chair:
• Gloria Barczak, Northeastern University

Customer Input for New Product Development: Active Customer Engagement ACEs Traditional Passive Approaches

• Gary R. Schirr, Radford University
• Albert L. Page, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Effects of Customer Involvement on New Product Ideas in Comparison to Traditional Market Research Techniques

• Lars Witell
• Per Kristensson
• Anders Gustafssom, Karlstad University

Customer Interactivity and New Product Performance: Moderating Effects of Product Newness and Product Embeddedness

• Joseph M. Bonner, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Internet Enabled User Innovation

• Michael D. Cole
• Larry Chiagouris, Pace University

The Role of Strategic Orientation and Organizational Resources in Innovation

• Session Chair:
• Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Developing an Effective Integrated Innovation Capability

• Stephanie Engelmayr
• Wim G. Biemans, University of Groningen

When Less is More: Innovation Despite or Because of Resource In-Adequacy?

• Martin Hoegl, Otto Beisheim School of Management
• Michael Gibbert, Bocconi University

The Missing Link Between Reward Systems and Innovation: The Role of Market Orientation

• Binh H. Nguyen
• Yinghong (Susan) Wei
• Gary L. Frankwick, Oklahoma State University

Organizational Culture, Organizational Orientation, and SBU Innovativeness

• Frederik Beuk
• Jelena Spanjol, University of Illinois at Chicago

Keynote Address
From the Editor: Directions in New Product Research

• Anthony Di Benedetto, Temple University, and Editor, Journal of Product Innovation Management

Special Contributed Session: Creativity and Innovation Management

• Session Chair:
• Petra C. de Weerd-Nederhof, University of Twente, and Co-Editor, Creativity and Innovation Management

Revealing Characteristics of Lead Users and Opinion Leaders: An Empirical Study About Social Networks of Children

• Jan Kratzer, University of Groningen
• Christopher Lettl, Aarhus School of Business
• Laurien Kunst, University of Groningen

Measuring the Impact of Social Relationships on NPD Project Team's Creativity

• Ming-Huei Chen, National Chung Hsing University
• Yuan-Chieh Chang
• Shih-Chang Hung, National Tsing Jua University

Using the Creativity Product Semantic Scale as a Metric in Concept Evaluation, Improvement and Selection

• Susan Besemer, Ideafusion LLC

NPD Approaches: Engineering Tools, Managerial Control, and Functionality Considerations

• Session Chair:
• Henning Sejer Jakobsen, Danish Technological Institute

The Method for Transforming a Business Goal into a Set of Engineering Problems

• Len Malinin

Convergence in the High-Technology Consumer Markets: Not All Brands Gain Equally from Adding New Functionalities to Products

• Tripat Gill
• Jing Lei, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

In Control or Out of Control? Active Managerial Involvement and Its Impact on Escalation of Commitment

• William Boulding
• Abhijit Guha
• Richard Staelin, Duke University

Plenary Session
Balancing Academic Rigor and Managerial Relevance in Innovation Research: A Panel Discussion

• Participants:
• Moderator - K. Sivakumar, Lehigh University
• Gerald M. Katz, Applied Marketing Science, Inc.
• Michael Song, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Gerard J. Tellis, University of Southern California

Team Innovation: Antecedents and Consequences

• Session Chair:
• Deborah Andrus, University of Calgary

Antecedents and Consequences of Teamwork Quality in New Product Development Projects: An Empirical Investigation

• Mumin Dayan, University of Sharjah

Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Influencing Breakthrough Innovations Through Shared Cognition Within New Product Development Teams

• Raj Agnihotri
• Kevin Trainor, Kent State University

Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-Functional NPD Teams

• James R. Dillon, Harvard University
• Shikhar Sarin, Boise State University
• Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard University

Configurations Driving NPD Market Acceptance and Development Time

• Petra C. de Weerd-Nederhof, University of Twente
• Michael Song
• Mark Parry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Klaasjan Visscher, University of Twente

Special Contributed Session: Innovation and Disruption

• Session Chair:
• Ashish Sood, Emory University

Forces Behind New Product Development Performance: Cross-functional Processes, Information System Capability, and Intelligence Quality

• Sundar Bharadwaj
• Anandhi Bharadwaj
• Elliott Bendoly, Emory University

Evolutionary Dynamics of Open Source Project Networks: A Study of Large Firm Sponsored Open Source Projects

• Girish Mallapragada, University of North Carolina
• Gary L. Lilien
• Rajdeep Grewal, Penn State University

Decoding Disruption

• Ashish Sood, Emory University
• Gerard J. Tellis, University of Southern California

The Impact of Breadth and Depth of Brand Extensions in a Brand Architecture

• Vijay Viswanathan
• Doug Bowman, Emory University

NPD Performance: Practices, Assessments, and Program Mixes

• Session Chair:
• Michael T. Manion, University of Wisconsin Parkside

Examining New Product Development Best Practices in Product versus Service Firms

• Kenneth B. Kahn, The University of Tennessee
• Gloria Barczak, Northeastern University

The Effect of Radical Innovation Mix on New Product Development Program Performance

• Prashant Srivastava, The University of Akron
• Gary L. Frankwick, Oklahoma State University

The Early Bird Gets the Worm: Assessing Performance in the Front End of Innovation(FEI)

• Jelena Spanjol
• Frederik Beuk, University of Illinois at Chicago

NPD Decision-Making and Proficiency

• Session Chair:
• Frank Franzak, Virginia Commonwealth University

Fit Dimensions and Positional Advantages: Are These Relationships Direct or Mediated by NPD Proficiency?

• Nukhet Harmancioglu, Bilkent University
• Roger Calantone
• Cornelia Droge, Michigan State University

Product Development Decision Framework: An Empirical Test

• Giulia Calabretta, ESADE
• Boris Durisin, Bocconi University

A Measure and Initial Test of a Scale For New Product Portfolio Management Decision Criteria

• Regina C. McNally, Michigan State University
• Serdar S. Durmusoglu, University of Dayton