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  1. The Role of Creativity and Innovation Management Research in Times of Changing Security and Defence Realities

    Article • Creativity and Innovation Management, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  2. Subsidiary Capability Development and Its Reverse Knowledge Transfer: A Microfoundation Perspective

    Article • Knowledge and Process Management, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  3. R&D Management Under Disruption and Uncertainty

    Article • R and D Management, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  4. The Nobel “Pride” Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition

    Article • Research Policy, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  5. The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future

    Article • International Business Review, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  6. Opening up early or late? The effect of open innovation before and after product launch on new product market performance

    Article • Industrial Marketing Management, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  7. Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey

    Article • Journal of Product Innovation Management, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  8. The role of international networks in upgrading national innovation systems

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  9. Guest Editorial: Special Issue Based on Papers Submitted to All 2018 IEEE TEMS Conferences

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  10. Managing “forced” technology transfer in emerging markets: The case of China

    Article • Journal of International Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  11. Organic vs. mechanistic coordination in distributed New Product Development (NPD) teams

    Article • Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  12. “Forced technology transfer” policies: Workings in China and strategic implications

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  13. Managing Foreign R&D in China

    Article • Research-Technology Management, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  14. Foreign R&D in China at a Crossroads?

    Article • Research-Technology Management, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  15. Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  16. The Nature and Dimensions of Knowledge Mobility for Competitive Advantage

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  17. Conceptual Model and Hypotheses

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  18. Conclusions and Limitations

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  19. Discussion

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  20. Implications and Recommendations

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  21. Introduction: Better Safe than Sorry

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  22. Literature Review

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  23. Methodology

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  24. Qualitative Results

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  25. Quantitative Results

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  26. The importance of spatial agglomeration in product innovation: A microgeography perspective

    Article • Journal of Business Research, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  27. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Reverse Innovation

    Article • Research-Technology Management, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Full Professor Thierry Warin, Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  28. Criteria to assess potential reverse innovations: opportunities for shared learning between high- and low-income countries

    Article • Globalization and Health, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  29. The impact of organizational culture on Concurrent Engineering, Design-for-Safety, and product safety performance

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  30. Multi-issue negotiation in quality function deployment: Modified Even-Swaps in new product development

    Article • Computers & Industrial Engineering, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  31. Formation of R & D alliances in the Chinese mobile telephony industry

    Article • Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, June 2015, Emerald

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  32. The Internationalisation of Business R&D. Edited by BernhardDachs, RobertStehrer, and GeorgZahradnik. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2014, ISBN 978-1783470891, hardcover, £65, pp. 224.

    Article • R and D Management, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  33. A Typology of Reverse Innovation

    Article • Journal of Product Innovation Management, June 2014, Wiley

    Peder Veng Søberg, Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  34. How Team Identification and Expertise Identification Affect R&D Employees' Creativity

    Article • Creativity and Innovation Management, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  35. Managing Open Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: Combining Open Innovation and R&D Globalization Literature

    Article • October 2013, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  36. Managing R&D and New Product Development

    Article • October 2013

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  37. How do foreign firms patent in emerging economies with weak appropriability regimes? Archetypes and motives

    Article • Research Policy, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  38. Preface

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  39. How Leading Firms Manage Product Safety in NPD

    Article • September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  40. Managing R&D in China

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  41. Offshoring of Intangibles: Organizational and Strategic Issues

    Article • Industry and Innovation, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  42. Main characteristics of world‐first innovation in catching‐up countries

    Article • Journal of Technology Management in China, June 2010, Emerald

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  43. Global R&D organization and the development of dynamic capabilities

    Article • Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, April 2010, Emerald

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  44. Managing Global Innovation. Edited by R. Boutellier, O. Gassmann and M. von Zedtwitz

    Article • R and D Management, March 2009, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  45. International Management of Research and Development

    Article • September 2008, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  46. Technological capability development in China's mobile phone industry

    Article • Technovation, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  47. Special Issue ofIndustry and Innovationon

    Article • Industry and Innovation, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  48. How technology‐based university research drives innovation in Europe and China

    Article • Journal of Technology Management in China, February 2008, Emerald

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  49. Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  50. Managing Global Innovation

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  51. Differences in orientations between Western European and Chinese service organizations

    Article • Asia Pacific International Journal of Marketing, October 2007, Emerald

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  52. High-Tech Industries in China. Edited by Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-Tzu Shih

    Article • R and D Management, September 2007, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  53. Globalization of R&D and China: An Introduction

    Article • Asia Pacific Business Review, July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  54. Managing Foreign R&D in China

    Article • Research-Technology Management, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  55. Are Service Profiles Incubator-Specific? Results from an Empirical Investigation in Italy*

    Article • The Journal of Technology Transfer, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  56. Risikomanagement in Inkubatoren

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  57. The evolution of research on R&D and technology management in China

    Article • Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, September 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  58. Architecting gloCal (global–local), real-virtual incubator networks (G-RVINs) as catalysts and accelerators of entrepreneurship in transitioning and developing economies: lessons learned and best practices from current development and business incubati...

    Article • Technovation, February 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  59. Inkubatoren für die Kommerzialisierung neuer Technologien

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  60. The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry in China

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  61. Developing the Pharmaceutical Business in China — The Case of Novartis

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  62. Managing Industrial Knowledge

    Article • Innovation, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  63. Editorial: managing R&D in China

    Article • R and D Management, September 2004, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  64. Managing foreign R&D laboratories in China

    Article • R and D Management, September 2004, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  65. Chinese R&D: naissance, renaissance, or mirage?

    Article • R and D Management, September 2004, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  66. Appendices

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  67. Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  68. Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Case of Switzerland

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  69. Management Answers to Pharmaceutical R&D Challenges

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  70. Future Directions and Trends

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  71. Organizing global R&D: challenges and dilemmas

    Article • Journal of International Management, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  72. The Pipeline Management Challenge: How to Shape the Innovation-Flow

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  73. Innovation as a Key Success Factor in the Pharmaceutical Industry

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  74. The Outsourcing and Internationalization Challenge: How to Harness Outside Innovation

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  75. The Science and Technology Challenge: How to Find New Drugs

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  76. Initial directors of international R&D laboratories

    Article • R and D Management, September 2003, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  77. A FOUR-LAYER MODEL FOR STUDYING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE.

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, August 2003, The Academy of Management

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  78. Trends and determinants of managing virtual R&D teams

    Article • R and D Management, June 2003, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  79. Classification and management of incubators: aligning strategic objectives and competitive scope for new business facilitation

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, January 2003, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  80. Article • Iryo To Shakai, January 2003, The Health Care Science Institute

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  81. Innovation Processes in Transnational Corporations

    Article • January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  82. Organizational learning through post–project reviews in R&D

    Article • R and D Management, June 2002, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  83. Market versus technology drive in R&D internationalization: four different patterns of managing research and development

    Article • Research Policy, May 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  84. Managing customer oriented research

    Article • International Journal of Technology Management, January 2002, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  85. Risikomanagement in Inkubatoren

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  86. Managing Global Innovation

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  87. Establishing Overlaying Structures

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  88. Transnational R&D Processes

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  89. The Global Market and Technology Innovator*

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  90. SAP: International Project Management

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  91. Challenges of Organizing International Research & Development

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  92. Managing the International R-to-D Interface

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  93. Managing Knowledge and Human Resources

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  94. Using Global Networks for Virtual Development

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  95. Unisys: Localization of Software Development

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  96. Trends and Drivers in R&D Location

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  97. Daimler: Global Knowledge Sourcing and Research

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  98. MTU: Partner in International High-Tech-Cooperations

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  99. Localizing R&D Resources

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  100. Schering: Synchronised Drug Development

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  101. Implications for Organizing Global R&D

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  102. The Market as a Challenge for R&D

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  103. Organizational Concepts: Towards the Integrated R&D Network

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  104. Leica Microscopy: International Transfer of R&D Activities

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  105. Planet-Wide Patterns in the Company’s Technology Tapestry

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  106. Nestlé: Interaction of R&D and Intelligence Management

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  107. Schindler: Institutionalizing Technology Management and R&D Core Competencies

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  108. Organizing Virtual R&D Teams: Towards a Contingency Approach

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  109. F. Hoffmann-La Roche: Global Differentiation between R and D

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  110. ABB: Management of Technology: Think Global, Act Local

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  111. Ciba: International Research Laboratories in Japan: Practical Validation of a Strategic Concept

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  112. Hitachi: Management Practices for Innovation in Global Industrial Research

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  113. R&D as the Motivating Force for Continuous Growth and Diversification

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  114. DuPont: Gaining the Benefits of Global Networks — from the Science Base to the Market Place

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  115. New Information and Communication Technology as an Enabler for Dispersed R&D Projects

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  116. New concepts and trends in international R&D organization

    Article • Research Policy, March 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  117. Daimler-Benz: Global Knowledge Sourcing and Research

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  118. Establishing Overlaying Structures

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  119. Managing Global Innovation

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  120. Managing Knowledge and Human Resources

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  121. Trends and Drivers in R&D Location

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  122. Transnational R&D Processes

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  123. Implications for Organizing Global R&D

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  124. Challenges of Organizing International Research & Development

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  125. Managing the International R-to-D Interface

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  126. Organizational Concepts: Towards the Integrated R&D Network

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  127. The Market as a Challenge for R&D

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  128. New Information and Communication Technology as an Enabler for Dispersed R&D Projects

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  129. Organizing Virtual R&D Teams: Towards a Contingency Approach

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  130. Organization of industrial R&D on a global scale

    Article • R and D Management, July 1998, Wiley

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  131. International R&D by Chinese companies

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  132. Managing technology transfer from research to development in international R&D projects

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz

  133. Organizing virtual R&D teams: towards a contingency approach

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Max von Zedtwitz