Current Projects

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Under the auspices of the overall Research Project Global Innovation we currently focus on the following major research areas:

• Globalization of R&D
  
  
• Grassroot Innovations
  
  
• The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
  
  
• Frugal Innovations
  
  
• Emerging Market Multinationals

Our research in these areas is generally based on several studies constantly underway at our institute, often in cooperation with partners from the industry, academia and/or government agencies. Currently following studies are running at our institute which are conceptualized in a way so that they often contain elements of more than one research area mentioned above.

• The Internationalization of R&D: An Empirical Study of Small- and Medium Sized Enterprises in Germany
• The Role of Offshore R&D in Strengthening Competitive Advantage: Chances and Challenges in India
• Market-Driven Globalization of Innovation: The Increasing Role of Emerging Economies
• Inside Frugal Innovations: Understanding the Phenomenon
• Disruptive Effects of Frugal Innovation when Transferred to Developed Countries
• Academic Antecedents of the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Meta-Analysis of Management Literature
• User Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Disruptive innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
  

A list of completed projects and study results (if published) can be found here.

This research project seeks to answer these questions by collecting empricial evidence to come to a conclusion. The research work is focussed on industry sectors, described here ("About us") .

Even though not exclusively focussed on a single region, the research project pays special attention to emerging R&D locations such as India and China.

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