Responsible Product Innovation Putting Safety First

This book analyses the relationships among product safety strategy and culture, concurrent engineering, new product development (NPD) processes and product safety performance. Product safety is a matter of enormous economic and societal concern, given the

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Andy Yunlong Zhu Max von Zedtwitz Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos

Responsible Product Innovation Putting Safety First

Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management

Series Editor Elias G. Carayannis George Washington University Washington, DC, USA

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Andy Yunlong Zhu • Max von Zedtwitz Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos

Responsible Product Innovation Putting Safety First

Andy Yunlong Zhu Goodbaby International Holdings Ltd. Kunshan, China Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos Department of Economics, Finance and Control EM-LYON Business School Ecully, France

Max von Zedtwitz School of Economics and Business Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas, Lithuania

ISSN 2197-5698     ISSN 2197-5701 (electronic) Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management ISBN 978-3-319-68450-5    ISBN 978-3-319-68451-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68451-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017953881 © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Series Foreword

The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/ local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding”-edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these topics. The book series is accompanied by the Springer Journal of the Knowledge Economy, which was launched in 2009 with the same editorial leadership. The series showcases provocative views that diverge from the current “conventional wisdom,” that are properly grounded in theory and practice, and that