IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/wsi/wschap/9789811219238_0014.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Competences for the In-house Development of Digital Innovations in German Mechanical Engineering Companies

In: Managing Digital Open Innovation

Author

Listed:
  • Steffen Kinkel
  • Johanna Rahn
  • Bernhard Rieder
  • Anne-Laure Mention
  • Marko Torkkeli

Abstract

The German mechanical engineering sector plays a key role as provider and user of digitally integrated products, processes and business models for Industry 4.0. However, it has not yet been empirically investigated to what extent these companies are able to independently develop digital products and services and what kind of competences they need to be able to do this successfully. An online survey of 335 German mechanical engineering companies and 15 deepening expert interviews shows that they mainly regard digitized service offerings such as predictive maintenance or condition monitoring as core competences and develop them in-house. The analysis shows that agile and design-oriented development methods can significantly improve the companies’ abilities to develop digitized products themselves. An interdisciplinary approach will become more and more important in the future, as digitally integrated innovations are increasingly taking place in the intersection of different disciplines.

Suggested Citation

  • Steffen Kinkel & Johanna Rahn & Bernhard Rieder & Anne-Laure Mention & Marko Torkkeli, 2020. "Competences for the In-house Development of Digital Innovations in German Mechanical Engineering Companies," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Pierre-Jean Barlatier & Anne-Laure Mention (ed.), Managing Digital Open Innovation, chapter 14, pages 379-399, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811219238_0014
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811219238_0014
    Download Restriction: Ebook Access is available upon purchase.
    File URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811219238_0014
    Download Restriction: Ebook Access is available upon purchase.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kinkel, Steffen & Baumgartner, Marco & Cherubini, Enrica, 2022. "Prerequisites for the adoption of AI technologies in manufacturing – Evidence from a worldwide sample of manufacturing companies," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    2. Kinkel, Steffen & Capestro, Mauro & Di Maria, Eleonora & Bettiol, Marco, 2023. "Artificial intelligence and relocation of production activities: An empirical cross-national study," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 261(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Open Innovation; Digital Disruption; Industry 4.0; Data-Driven Decision; Value Networks; Organizational Agility; Digital Design; Collaboration; Innovation Policy; Social Media; Open Strategy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811219238_0014. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscientific.com/page/worldscibooks .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.