Product innovativeness from the firm's perspective: its dimensions and their relation with project selection and performance

Innovation quality in knowledge cities: Empirical evidence of innovation award competitions in Finland

“…A cross-country comparison or a combination of data from different international innovation awards might overcome some of the problems related to the small total population of award winning companies in Finland. Similarly, some caution is needed with the novelty aspect of innovation, when the data is constructed with questionnaires; firms have been reported to overestimate the newness and uniqueness of their innovations (Danneels & Kleinschmidt, 2001). However, due to their expertise they are, at the same time, in the best position to assess the novelty of their products, processes and services, even if some subjective bias towards exaggeration might exist.…”

Forecasting consumer perception of innovativeness

“…Product innovativeness is often related to i) key innovation characteristics (i.e., relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability), ii) adoption risk, and iii) the degree of change from established behaviour patterns (Danneels and Kleinschmidt, 2001). …”

“…However, Danneels and Kleinschmidt's (2001) conceptualization of product innovativeness has yet to be directly tested empirically. Their exploratory analysis was based on secondary data from new product development managers, obtained through the NewProd II database from the 1980s.…”

Supplier traits for better customer firm innovation performance

“…While there is still an ongoing debate about the composition and evaluation of product innovativeness with the goal of separating and describing parsimonious dimensions, it is generally accepted that innovativeness refers to the potential discontinuity which a product generates in the technological and marketing process (Calantone, Chan, and Cui, 2006;Danneels and Kleinschmidt, 2001;Garcia and Calantone, 2002). Since the goal of our present research is not to contribute to the decomposition of the product innovativeness construct, for simplicity we follow the notion of innovativeness used by Sivadas and Dwyer (2000).…”