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  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,375 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine the purchase intention of innovative new product (e.g., Galaxy Fold) by integrating behavioral reasoning theory (BRT) to the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and theory of planned behavior (TPB) to test the rel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Model Innovation for Corporate Sustainability)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
17,995 Views
20 Pages

A Model for the Development of Innovative Tourism Products: From Service to Transformation

  • Margarida Custódio Santos,
  • Ana Ferreira,
  • Carlos Costa and
  • José António C. Santos

26 May 2020

This study sought to develop a conceptual model of innovative tourism product development, because the existing models tend to provide an incomplete framework for these products’ development. The models presented to date focus on either the res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Tourism Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,625 Views
29 Pages

13 November 2024

Sustainable development in the agriculture of the future will lead to innovative production, providing the possibility of obtaining better quality agricultural products. In turn, these innovative agricultural products will fit into new social lifesty...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Science and the Latest Studies on Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,170 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2019

In recent years, companies are challenged not only to develop market competencies but also to deal with environmental issues. Unlike larger companies equipped with abundant resources and sustainable capabilities, small- and medium-sized enterprises (...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,411 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2019

In this paper, we consider a manufacturer who produces and sells a kind of innovative product in the monopoly market environment. Because the life cycle of an innovative product is usually shorter than its procurement lead time, one unique demand qua...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,043 Views
13 Pages

Consumers often face valuation uncertainty when innovative products are introduced into market, and they may update the valuation about product quality based on historical sales information over time. Based on this background, this study constructed...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,304 Views
15 Pages

Making Sustainability a Core Competency: Consumer Response to Sustainable Innovative Products

  • Clyde Eiríkur Hull,
  • Jennifer D. Russell and
  • Monika Kukar-Kinney

17 September 2022

Research suggests that sustainability may not be sufficient to yield a competitive advantage. Building on the resource-based view, this research evaluates three questions: (1) Can using sustainability as a differentiator lead to consumers choosing su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Competitive Sustainability: The Intersection of Sustainability and Business Success)
  • Review
  • Open Access
245 Citations
21,887 Views
20 Pages

Innovative Green Technologies of Intensification for Valorization of Seafood and Their By-Products

  • Fadila Al Khawli,
  • Mirian Pateiro,
  • Rubén Domínguez,
  • José M. Lorenzo,
  • Patricia Gullón,
  • Katerina Kousoulaki,
  • Emilia Ferrer,
  • Houda Berrada and
  • Francisco J. Barba

6 December 2019

The activities linked to the fishing sector generate substantial quantities of by-products, which are often discarded or used as low-value ingredients in animal feed. However, these marine by-products are a prominent potential good source of bioactiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aquaculture Wastes and By-products as Source of High Added Value Compounds: Extraction, and Health Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,855 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2023

In order to realize the recyclability of innovative product resources, we explored the optimal dynamic path of each decision variable in the remanufacturing supply chain and analyzed the impact of each decision variable on supply chain performance. B...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chains in Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,428 Views
33 Pages

Sustainable Innovative Design of Elderly-Friendly Smart Medical Products: An Integrated Model

  • An-Jin Shie,
  • En-Min Xu,
  • Zhen-Zhen Ye,
  • Qing-Feng Meng and
  • Yenchun Jim Wu

2 September 2024

Under the promotion of combined medical and elderly care (CMEC) policies, the market demand for elder-friendly smart medical products as convenient intelligent healthcare devices is growing. However, most studies on elderly-friendly smart medical pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Product-Service Design for Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
96 Citations
18,798 Views
23 Pages

Marine Natural Products as Innovative Cosmetic Ingredients

  • Sara Fonseca,
  • Mariana Neves Amaral,
  • Catarina Pinto Reis and
  • Luísa Custódio

8 March 2023

Over the course of the last 20 years, numerous studies have identified the benefits of an array of marine natural ingredients for cosmetic purposes, as they present unique characteristics not found in terrestrial organisms. Consequently, several mari...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,838 Views
12 Pages

Do Farmers Demand Innovative Financial Products? A Case Study in Cambodia

  • Qingxia Wang,
  • Yim Soksophors,
  • Khieng Phanna,
  • Angelica Barlis,
  • Shahbaz Mushtaq,
  • Danny Rodulfo and
  • Kees Swaans

This study examines Cambodian farmers’ demand for weather index insurance (WII), an innovative financial product, for managing climate change-related risks. Rice and cassava farmers in Battambang Province of Cambodia were interviewed to underst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Risk and Sustainability: The Impact on Insurance, Investments, Financing, the Banking Industry, Business and Social Models)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,767 Views
20 Pages

Novel Insights into Milk Coffee Products: Component Interactions, Innovative Processing, and Healthier Product Features

  • Yi Li,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Weili Li,
  • Xiaoyan Yu,
  • Xueting Zhang,
  • Jindou Shi,
  • Hong Li and
  • Yanan Shi

25 November 2025

Milk coffee is a composite beverage in which interactions among dairy proteins, lipids, and coffee polyphenols govern flavor, texture, and stability. This review synthesizes recent research to guide formulation and processing, covering conventional U...

(This article belongs to the Section Drinks and Liquid Nutrition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
19,523 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2021

A museum’s core activities traditionally focus on such areas as collections’ care, exhibitions and scholarship. Income generation, including retail activities, is considered secondary. Academic research into museums’ merchandise, especially into the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,071 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates how consumers’ information-seeking motivation and perceptions of cross-media campaigns influence their attitudes toward innovative products. Drawing from the perspective of interactive marketing, it highlights the role o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Interactive Marketing in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
291 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2026

Building on the consensus that residual claim is the core of innovation incentives, this study extends the conceptual framework by incorporating contract duration and organizational form as key strategic variables. Drawing on data from 521 firms, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,257 Views
21 Pages

Oleogels—Innovative Technological Solution for the Nutritional Improvement of Meat Products

  • Simona Perța-Crișan,
  • Claudiu-Ștefan Ursachi,
  • Bianca-Denisa Chereji and
  • Florentina-Daniela Munteanu

27 December 2022

Food products contain important quantities of fats, which include saturated and/or unsaturated fatty acids. Because of a proven relationship between saturated fat consumption and the appearance of several diseases, an actual trend is to eliminate the...

(This article belongs to the Section Meat)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,812 Views
15 Pages

Do Consumers Value Environmental Innovation in Product?

  • Cristina Aibar-Guzmán and
  • Francisco M. Somohano-Rodríguez

22 March 2021

Customers are considered to be major stakeholders whose demands and preferences have a strong influence on corporate strategies. In this sense, increased consumer environmental awareness has led to a growing demand for environmentally friendly produc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility and Eco-Innovation: From an International Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,379 Views
13 Pages

Product innovation performance is often measured by means of the percentages in the product portfolio from: (a) innovative products launched for the first time in the market; (b) new products to the firm already extant in the market; and (c) unchange...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,258 Views
17 Pages

Maximizing the Influence of Innovative Green Product Propagation

  • Liang’an Huo,
  • Qianqian Wang,
  • Tingting Lin and
  • Hongguang He

7 April 2021

This article considers the competition between the propagation of traditional product information and innovative green product information, and it proposes a hybrid model with advertisement and promotion strategies. On this basis, an innovation green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,871 Views
15 Pages

Innovation Activities and Their Impact on Product Innovation Results: Evidence from a Sectorial Study

  • Eduardo Antonio Chang-Muñoz,
  • Andrés Felipe Guarín-García,
  • Yuneidis Charris-Sevilla,
  • José Fernando Gallego-Nicholls,
  • Cristina Santos-Rojo and
  • Arturo Ortigosa-Blanch

11 April 2023

In the current competitive context, innovation has become a necessity, to the point that it seems that no company can survive without developing innovation processes. One of the great concerns of small and medium-sized companies is about the investme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability-Oriented Innovation for the Challenges of the Contemporary Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,025 Views
39 Pages

Identification of Innovative Opportunities Based on Product Scenario Evolution

  • Fanfan Wang,
  • Runhua Tan,
  • Qingjin Peng,
  • Kang Wang and
  • Yafan Dong

8 December 2023

Innovation is a key factor for product development. Identifying innovative opportunities is the first step in innovative product design. Traditional methods of identifying innovative opportunities, such as market surveys and brainstorming, are limite...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Paradigms, Systems and Enabling Technologies for Product Life Cycle)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,675 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2025

This study examines the heterogeneous effects of product environmental innovation on firm-level innovation efficiency and performance in process industries, with a focus on the chemical and electronics sectors. Following the Organisation for Economic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Optimization of Production Processes in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,769 Views
14 Pages

13 May 2019

As consumers are becoming concernedabout environmental sustainability, firms are motivated to develop green products that adopt sustainable innovation or materials. This study contributes to the existing literature by specifically examining how consu...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,821 Views
14 Pages

4 April 2022

Enterprises performing complex product servitization are more vulnerable to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic because of their large number of suppliers and wide coverage, among other things. The present research focuses on how to prom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Purchasing and Supply Management during and after the Pandemic Era: Effects, Operations, and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,382 Views
18 Pages

13 April 2018

This study analyzes the ideal strategic trajectory for sustainable and traditional product innovation. Using a sample of 74 Costa Rican high-performance businesses for 2016, we employ fuzzy set analysis (qualitative comparative analysis) to evaluate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leveraging Digitalization for Advanced Service Business Models: Challenges and Opportunities for Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
631 Views
28 Pages

15 July 2026

In response to intensifying environmental pressures and the rapid pace of digital transformation, firms are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to support sustainable development. Using panel data from Chinese A-share-liste...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Views
23 Pages

In electronic markets, consumers often form purchase intentions for unfamiliar products under conditions of information asymmetry. How firms portray the origin of a product idea may therefore shape new-product purchase intention. Serendipitous innova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,968 Views
20 Pages

The activation of the startup movement is one of the fundamental preconditions for the transition from innovation to a startup ecosystem, the development of which is impossible without special innovation structures that help startups promote innovati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social, Economic, Legal and Educational Challenges of Network Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,500 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2019

Ongoing globalization and changing customer needs make it increasingly difficult for firms to survive in the long term. Innovation is considered an important tool for firms in this environment. In particular, a firm’s ability to cultivate innov...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Innovation in Organizations for Improving Decisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
139 Citations
13,531 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2016

This study fills the research gap in the exploration of the relationships between both proactive and reactive green innovations and green product development performance, and examines the mediating effect of green creativity. Structural equation mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,071 Views
23 Pages

Based on the theory of user needs and the product development mode and framework of mobile Internet interactive innovation, a new “reality → virtual → reality” interactive innovation product development mode is constructed. It d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,673 Views
25 Pages

Construction and Application of Enterprise Knowledge Base for Product Innovation Design

  • Lulu Zhang,
  • Runhua Tan,
  • Qingjin Peng,
  • Peng Shao,
  • Yafan Dong and
  • Kang Wang

22 June 2022

As most of the knowledge used in industrial product design is based on data files from a previous design, it is difficult to be efficiently applied in supporting product innovation design. This paper proposes a method to construct an enterprise knowl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,335 Views
29 Pages

Responsibility versus Profit: The Motives of Food Firms for Healthy Product Innovation

  • Jilde Garst,
  • Vincent Blok,
  • Léon Jansen and
  • Onno S. W. F. Omta

8 December 2017

Background: In responsible research and innovation (RRI), innovation is seen as a way in which humankind finds solutions for societal issues. However, studies on commercial innovation show that firms respond in a different manner and at a different s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,756 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2020

A thorough analysis of commercial banks’ product innovation performance is essential to promoting bank product innovation capabilities and sustainable development. In this paper, the product innovation performance of commercial banks is defined...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability, Digital Transformation and Fintech: The New Challenges of the Banking Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
12,474 Views
23 Pages

26 January 2020

Using a resource-based approach to innovation, this study proposes an alternative innovation model to the existing market-based Product Life Cycle (PLC) model. In particular, this study explores how the attributes of corporate strategic resources aff...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,285 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2023

This study aimed to determine the appropriate fashion design elements for fashion product innovation to achieve continuous product value and promote sustainable fashion. We focused on five fashion design elements: classical, transformative, patterned...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
764 Views
25 Pages

Innovation Proficiency and Barriers to Its Development by Product Managers and Their Teams

  • Sara L. Beckman,
  • Amy G. Chen,
  • Christopher Chou,
  • Charles Zhou Gu,
  • Nick Jiang and
  • Lingyue Zhu

Innovation proficiency is widely recognized as essential to organizational competitiveness; yet, how product managers and their teams develop these proficiencies across organizational contexts remains understudied. This study examines six innovation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
743 Views
16 Pages

5 February 2026

The proposed model derives closed-form solutions for investment efforts in both product development and its associated production processes while balancing economic profit, product quality, and marginal production costs. The system dynamics, includin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Manufacturing Processes and Systems for Sustainable Practices (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,939 Views
11 Pages

1 December 2022

Brazil has great potential for the development of an NTFP bioeconomy as it has 500 million hectares of forest. In this article, I seek to identify, through a literature review, innovations in products and processes inserted in the value chain of Braz...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,866 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2021

Customer knowledge management (CKM) is a relatively new research domain, aiming at exploring the potential of customer knowledge for the open innovation process of companies. The present paper aims at performing a complex analysis of the serial media...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,724 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2016

The adoption of open innovation and peer production, powered by 3D printing technology, is transforming traditional manufacturing methods towards a “third industrial revolution”. The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence for an in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,300 Views
20 Pages

Innovative System for Scheduling Production Using a Combination of Parametric Simulation Models

  • Branislav Micieta,
  • Jolanta Staszewska,
  • Matej Kovalsky,
  • Martin Krajcovic,
  • Vladimira Binasova,
  • Ladislav Papanek and
  • Ivan Antoniuk

24 August 2021

The article deals with the design of an innovative system for scheduling piece and small series discrete production using a combination of parametric simulation models and selected optimization methods. An innovative system for solving production sch...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,659 Views
22 Pages

25 April 2023

The relationship between firms’ exports and increases in productivity is generally regarded as positive. While the causal effects of process innovation are straightforward and positive, the effect of product innovation on productivity is ambigu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
14,400 Views
34 Pages

Eco-innovative Practices for Sustainable Consumption and Production: What are the Possible Benefits for Companies?

  • Maria Rosa De Giacomo,
  • Arianna Dominici Loprieno,
  • Mario Tarantini,
  • Rovena Preka,
  • Maria Litido,
  • Anne Dominique Furphy,
  • Víctor Vázquez Calvo,
  • Pere Llorach-Massana,
  • Carles M. Gasol and
  • Xavier Gabarrell
  • + 2 authors

30 July 2014

The paper aims to present some eco-innovative practices regarding Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). The study also focuses on potential benefits for the actors who implement these practices, mainly with reference to companies. After a lit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,726 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2024

Sustainability has been playing a major role on the world stage. As with everything, in the beginning, it was aligned with purely environmental contexts, but with the passing of the years, this concept has encompassed other aspects, such as the way o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,482 Views
31 Pages

5 February 2026

As organizations strive to balance environmental stewardship with economic competitiveness, understanding the performance implications of Green Innovation (GI) has become increasingly important. Although the nexus between Green Product Innovation (GP...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Economics, Policies and Sustainable Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,835 Views
10 Pages

12 June 2021

Food innovation is crucial for food companies in order to produce healthier, safer, and more convenient foods. However, there is a segment of consumers reluctant to accept new foods. This attitude is even more important when those novelties are devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Innovation as a Means of Developing Healthier and More Sustainable Foods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
22 Pages

Innovation and Productivity as Engines of Economic Growth in Ghana

  • Hu Xuhua,
  • Ernest Kay Bakpa and
  • Josephine Adwoa Yeboah

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between innovation, total factor productivity (TFP), and economic growth in Ghana using annual data for the period 1965–2021. Although Ghana has recorded relatively strong economic growth, concerns r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,434 Views
13 Pages

Innovation and Dynamic Productivity Growth in the Indonesian Food and Beverage Industry

  • Maman Setiawan,
  • Nury Effendi,
  • Rina Indiastuti,
  • Mohamad Fahmi and
  • Budiono

25 October 2022

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and dynamic productivity growth in the Indonesian food and beverage industry. Dynamic productivity growth is calculated using a Luenberger indicator, and innovation is represented by a process i...

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