Roman Teplov

Lappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT · Department of Innovation Management

Circular economy (CE) business models provide solutions for sustainable development goals by closing, slowing, intensifying, de-materializing, and narrowing resource loops. Addressing CE needs a strategic redefinition of the way companies are creating and capturing value, which leads in designing a new value creation system and innovative business...

The importance of supply chain innovation to the operational management practices is difficult to underestimate, especially as it concerns developing novel products and services or the use of digital technologies. Supply chain innovation is imperative for enhancing supply chain performance and gaining sustainable competitive advantages. Despite rap...

Despite rapidly growing research interest and significant relevance to industry practitioners, the supply chain innovation research field appears to be highly fragmented. It lacks any common understanding of the elements comprising innovation management practices among members of the supply chain. In our article, we aim to structure and analyse lit...

Inclusive innovation, a relatively new term emerging in the last decade, commonly refers to any innovation for poor and otherwise excluded members of society. Developing economies are particularly promising targets for this kind of innovation due to their institutional voids and the vast numbers of people living below the poverty line. This chapter...

Information and communication technologies, digital design and fabrication technologies are valued as driver for developing social innovations. This contribution addresses the question of how to stimulate social innovation skills in makerspace settings. The European H2020 project "DOIT Entrepreneurial skills for young social innovators in an open d...

Purpose From the organisational perspective, the authors know that management, including innovation management, becomes less “organised” by bureaucracy and administrative tools, and much more impacted by organisational capabilities, competences and hidden, “soft” routines, bringing innovation and creativity to the core of organisation. The purpose...

Since the first appearance of ‘open innovation’ as a theoretical concept in 2003, the debates on its essence still continue among academics, while its interpretations within the business community also seem to differ from one company to another. Using a survey of 251 companies operating in Europe, in this research, we compare the perceptions of ope...

In spite of the outstanding efforts of the United Nations, the poverty alleviation targets outlined in Millennium Development Goals have not been fully achieved. The further need for improving the living standard of the world population led to the introduction of a new set of revised and expanded Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The private b...

Access to affordable and sustainable energy is crucial for the improvement of the well-being of modern societies. Most energy technologies require comparatively high up-front investment, which adds to the challenge of electrification, despite the recognized multiple benefits. Partnership with multinational enterprises (MNEs) can provide necessary i...

The importance of entrepreneurship for economic development and overall social well-being is widely recognised by researchers, experts, and policy makers. Researchers have identified a variety of endogenous and exogenous determinants, such as individual-level factors, external macro-level factors, and country-level cultural factors, which can moder...

Since first book on Open Innovation was published in 2003, concept caused extensive debates in academic community. While one scholars criticize Open Innovation for conceptual ambiguity and being merely repackaging existing practices, the proponents emphasize the novelty of the concept in systematic combination of inbound and outbound activities and...