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Tobias Hahn
Cross-Industry Innovation Processes Strategic Implications for Telecommunication Companies Preface by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Zarnekow
Tobias Hahn Bonn, Germany Zugl.: Berlin, Technische Universität, Diss., 2014 u. d. T. The Open Service Innovation Process in Cross-Industry Collaboration Networks and its Strategic Implications for Telecommunication Companies
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PREFACE Telecommunication markets are experiencing fundamental changes. Political, technological, business and societal conditions are changing and breaking up traditional, historically grown structures and markets. Examples are plentiful and include the deregulation of telecommunication markets, the convergence of telecommunication, media and internet industries, the growing importance of software-defined networking and rapidly changing customer behavior. Competition between telecommunication companies increases and leads to new value chains, business models and products. Rising to these challenges, telecommunication companies increasingly focus on cooperations in the area of research and development. Especially cooperations with partners, that possess complementary skills, play an important role. On an operational level, these cooperations are traditionally implemented in the form of technology partnerships or joint ventures. In recent years the concept of open innovation has gained importance in this area as well. A close cooperation with partners, suppliers and customers is regarded as a promising approach. Nevertheless, in practice open innovation is still at an early stage and the actual success of
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