Golish, B.L., Besterfield-Sacre, M.E. & Schuman, L.J. (2008). Comparing Academic and Corporate Technology Development Processes. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 25(1), 47-62.
Format: Peer-reviewed article
Type: Research — Non-experimental
Experience level of reader: Fundamental
Annotation: A series of structured interviews compared the NPD processes of a set of corporate inventors to a set of academic inventors, all considered successful because they had obtained patents. Overall, the corporate NPD processes were judged more complete, correct, better organized, and similar across the set of corporate inventors. Not only did the academics complete fewer steps, their NPD processes were not even similar within their own group.
Setting(s) to which the reported activities/findings are relevant: Federal lab, Large business, Small business (less than 500 employees), University
Knowledge user(s) to whom the piece of literature may be relevant: Manufacturers, Researchers
Knowledge user level addressed by the literature: Individual
This article uses the Commercial Devices and Services version of the NtK Model