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Maximilian von Zedtwitz

Maximilian von Zedtwitz

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
34
Citations
7766
World Ranking
2294
National Ranking
17

Overview

Maximilian von Zedtwitz is affiliated with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Their research broadly spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Management of Technology and Innovation. Additional areas of specialization include Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, as well as General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics of their work cover Innovation and Knowledge Management, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Innovation Policy and Research & Development, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Global trade and economics, Open Source Software Innovations, and Business Strategy and Innovation.

Von Zedtwitz has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • International Business Review
  • Industrial Marketing Management

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey" (2023), Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • "The role of international networks in upgrading national innovation systems" (2022), Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future" (2023), International Business Review
  • "Opening up early or late? The effect of open innovation before and after product launch on new product market performance" (2023), Industrial Marketing Management
  • "The Nobel 'Pride' Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition" (2024), Research Policy

Their collaborative work frequently involves co-authorship with researchers such as Mette Præst Knudsen, Xiaohong Quan, Leandro Lima Santos, Felipe Mendes Borini, and Abbie Griffin.

Best Publications

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

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Oliver Gassmann

  • New concepts and trends in international R&D organization

    Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Managing Global Innovation: Uncovering the Secrets of Future Competitiveness

    Roman Boutellier;Roman Boutellier;Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Trends and determinants of managing virtual R&D teams

    Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • 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 incubation practices

    Elias G. Carayannis;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation: Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry

    Oliver Gassmann;Gerrit Reepmeyer;Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

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

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Rosa Grimaldi

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

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Organizing global R&D: challenges and dilemmas

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Oliver Gassmann;Roman Boutellier

  • Organization of industrial R&D on a global scale

    Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian Von Zedtwitz

  • A Typology of Reverse Innovation

    Unknown

  • Organizational Learning through Post-project Reviews in R&D

    Unknown

  • Managing Foreign R&D Laboratories in China

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  • Technological capability development in China's mobile phone industry

    Jun Jin;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Managing Global Innovation

    Roman Boutellier;Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Managing Industrial Knowledge

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  • International R&D Strategies in Companies from Developing Countries - the Case of China

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz

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

    Seongsoo Jang;Jinwon Kim;Max von Zedtwitz

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

    Seongsoo Jang;Jinwon Kim;Max von Zedtwitz

  • Globalization of R&D and China: An Introduction

    Yifei Sun;Maximilian Von Zedtwitz;Denis Fred Simon

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

    Marcus Matthias Keupp;Sascha Friesike;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Post-project reviews in R&D

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Managing Foreign R&D in China

    Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Tadashi Ikeda;Li Gong;Richard Carpenter

  • Innovation Processes in Transnational Corporations

    Oliver Gassmann;Oliver Gassmann;Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

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

    Dan Prud'homme;Dan Prud'homme;Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Maximilian von Zedtwitz;Joachim Jan-Thomas Thraen;Martin Alexander Bader

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Gassmann
Oliver Gassmann University of St. Gallen
Yi-Fei Sun
Yi-Fei Sun Xiamen University
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw London Business School
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Kent
Dilip Soman
Dilip Soman University of Toronto
Abdallah S. Daar
Abdallah S. Daar University of Toronto
Anita M. McGahan
Anita M. McGahan University of Toronto
Elias G. Carayannis
Elias G. Carayannis George Washington University
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu

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