Issue 14.4 of the Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, (editors are CINet members Olaf Fisscher and Petra de Weerd-Nederhof) has been dispatched recently. This issue is a special issue on the 11th International Product Development Management Conference that was held in Dublin, Ireland, in 2004. It includes also some additional papers.

Table of Contents:

EDITORIAL

• SPECIAL: The Art and Science Challenges within the Management of Product Development
  Guest Editors: Paul Coughlan, Mairead brady and Louis Brennan

ARTICLES

• Learning from New Product Development Projects: An Exploratory Study
  Ursula Koners and Keith Goffin
• The Development of Science-Based Products: Managing by Design Spaces
  Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson and Benoit Weil
• Cross-Functional Conflict, Conflict Handling Behaviours and New Product Performance in Spanish Firms
  José Antonio Varela, Pilar Fernández, M. Luisa del Río and Belén Bande
• Splendid Isolation: Does Networking Really Increase New Product Success?
  Ann Ledwith and Paul Coughlan
• Striving Towards R&D Collaboration Performance: The Effect of Asymmetry, Trust and Contractiing
  Pia Hurmelinna, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Kaisu Puumalainen and Sami Saarenketo
• Competence Strategies in Organizing Product Development
  John K. Christiansen, Allan Hansen, Claus J. Varnes and Juliana H. Mikkola
• National Product Design Identities
  Kelly Dawson, Povl Larsen, Gavin Cawood and Alan Lewis

ADDITIONAL PAPERS

• Positive Illusions and New Venture Crreation: Conceptual Issues and an Empirical Illustration
  Geir Grundvag Ottesen and Kjell Gronhaug
• Organizational Design for Enhancing the Impact of Incremental Innovativeness: A Qualitative Analysis of Innovative Cases in the Context of Developing Economy
  Mathew J. Manimala, P.D. Jose and K. Raju Thomas
• Minimizing Market Risks Through Customer Integration in New Product Development: Learning from Bad Practice
  Ellen Enkel, Javier Perez-Freije and Oliver Gassmann

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