Description
| Product ID: | 9781403996725 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Contemporary Management of Innovation |
| Subtitle: | Are We Asking the Right Questions? |
| Authors: | Author: A. Gallina, J. Sundbo, J. Davis, G. Serin |
| Page Count: | 268 |
| Subjects: | Research and development management, Research & development management |
| Description: | Beginning with theoretical analyses of the innovation management field, the book turns to the institutional and geographic factors underlying innovation, and the potential posed by a 'soft' or organizational view of innovation management, before concluding with a section on the management of knowledge, information and appropriability. List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors PART 1: MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION - ARE WE LOOKING AT THE RIGHT THINGS? Introduction: New Tendencies in Society; J.Sundbo The Rise and Fall of the Management of Innovation; S.Laestadius From R&D Management to Management of Innovation; M.Meeus PART 2: THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION AND THE ROLE OF COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND TERRITORIES Introduction: Diffusion Processes in the Firms and in the Territory; A.Gallina & G.Serin Co-Publishing and Innovation; P.Cooke Agglomeration or Cross-Border ICT Cluster?; P.Hansen & G.Serin Innovation and Firm Consumption; J.Howells Innovation and Diffusion of Site-Specific Crop Management; S.M.Pedersen & J.L.Pedersen PART 3: ORGANIZATION OF INNOVATION Introduction: The Organizational or ''Soft'' Aspects of Innovation; J.Sundbo Do Network Structures follow Innovation Strategy?; M.Meeus, J.Faber & L.A.G.Oerlemans Strategic Reflexivity as a Framework for Understanding Development in Modern Firms; J.Sundbo & L.Fuglsang Innovation as Institutional Change; J.Guia, L.Prats & J.Comas Towards a Better Measurement of the Soft Side of Innovation; P.den Hertog, T.Poot & G.Meinen PART 4: ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Appropriability; J.Davis The Governance of Technological Knowledge; C.Antonelli Prizes as Incentives; L.Davis & J.Davis Patent Policies of Small Danish Firms in Three Industries; L.Davis Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-12-15 |
