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Overview

Holger Ernst is affiliated with the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within innovation, technology management, and strategy, with several recent contributions to the field.

Ernst's body of published work includes papers across different venues and focuses on various aspects of innovation and technology. Some notable publications by Ernst are:

  • Using Artificial Intelligence in the Innovation Process: Antecedents and Performance Implications (2024) in Academy of Management Proceedings
  • How can Artificial Intelligence in Customer Knowledge Development Help Push Innovation Performance? (2024) in Academy of Management Proceedings

Other relevant publications in related fields where Ernst is not the lead author include:

  • The interplay between technology characteristics, R&D internationalisation, and new product introduction: Empirical evidence from the energy conservation sector (2020) in Technovation
  • Issue Information (2020) in Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Beyond Just Generative AI for Discovering Software Opportunities (2025) in IEEE Software

Ernst collaborates regularly with several coauthors, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Priscilla Sarai Kraft
  • Lorenzo Ardito
  • Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli
  • Carsten C. Guderian
  • Marco Richter

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Technovation
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • IEEE Software

Ernst's research integrates various subfields within management and innovation studies. These subfields include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

The major topics addressed in their research focus on different dimensions of innovation and knowledge:

  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Intellectual Property and Patents

Best Publications

  • Success Factors of New Product Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

    Holger Ernst

  • Patent information for strategic technology management

    Holger Ernst

  • Community based innovation: How to integrate members of virtual communities into new product development

    Johann Füller;Michael Bartl;Holger Ernst;Hans Mühlbacher

  • Patent applications and subsequent changes of performance: evidence from time-series cross-section analyses on the firm level

    Holger Ernst

  • Sales, Marketing, and Research-and-Development Cooperation Across New Product Development Stages: Implications for Success

    Holger Ernst;Wayne D. Hoyer;Carsten Rübsaamen

  • Customer relationship management and company performance—the mediating role of new product performance

    Holger Ernst;Wayne D. Hoyer;Manfred Krafft;Katrin Krieger

  • The Use of Patent Data for Technological Forecasting: The Diffusion of CNC-Technology in the Machine Tool Industry

    H. Ernst

  • Attitudes to externally organising knowledge management tasks: a review, reconsideration and extension of the NIH syndrome

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Patent portfolios for strategic R & D planning

    Holger Ernst

  • Opening up the innovation process: the role of technology aggressiveness

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • External technology commercialization in large firms: results of a quantitative benchmarking study

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • The influence of corporate acquisitions on the behaviour of key inventors

    Holger Ernst;Jan Vitt

  • Patenting strategies in the German mechanical engineering industry and their relationship to company performance

    H. Ernst

  • How Teamwork Matters More as Team Member Dispersion Increases

    Martin Hoegl;Holger Ernst;Luigi Proserpio

  • How to manage virtual teams

    Frank Siebdrat;Martin Hoegl;Holger Ernst

  • Developing reputation to overcome the imperfections in the markets for knowledge

    Ulrich Lichtenthaler;Holger Ernst

  • Inventors are not alike: the distribution of patenting output among industrial R&D personnel

    H. Ernst;C. Leptien;J. Vitt

  • The Antecedents and Consequences of Affordable Value Innovations for Emerging Markets: Affordable Value Innovations for Emerging Markets

    Holger Ernst;Hanna Nari Kahle;Anna Dubiel;Jaideep Prabhu

  • The Antecedents and Consequences of Affordable Value Innovations for Emerging Markets

    Holger Ernst;Hanna Nari Kahle;Anna Dubiel;Jaideep Prabhu

  • Community based innovation: a method to utilize the innovative potential of online communities

    J. Fuller;M. Bartl;H. Ernst;H. Muhlbacher

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Lichtenthaler
Ulrich Lichtenthaler International School of Management
Martin Hoegl
Martin Hoegl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Johann Füller
Johann Füller University of Innsbruck
Wayne D. Hoyer
Wayne D. Hoyer The University of Texas at Austin
Jaideep Prabhu
Jaideep Prabhu University of Cambridge
Marcel Mayor
Marcel Mayor University of Basel
Ulrich Simon
Ulrich Simon RWTH Aachen University
Günter Schmid
Günter Schmid University of Duisburg-Essen
Heinrich Hofmann
Heinrich Hofmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Harald Brune
Harald Brune École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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