Management of Technology & Innovation

Focuses on the tools and techniques of forecasting new product development. Useful for students and professionals, this book features numerous industry cases and examples. It covers the basic foundations and processes of new product forecasting, and links forecasting to the processes of new product ..

Originally published in 1993 this book presents the findings of 14 teams involved in a research initiative to examine the initiation and resonse to innovation in firms. It draws together the many strands which were discovered to influence the succesful generation and adoption of new technologies...

This book addresses the interdisciplinary nature of product development and product management. Instructors, students, and practitioners will benefit from chapters on design and legal considerations, expanded discussion of global considerations, and product planning best practice, all new to this ed..

This book addresses the interdisciplinary nature of product development and product management. Instructors, students, and practitioners will benefit from chapters on design and legal considerations, expanded discussion of global considerations, and product planning best practice, all new to this ed..

Regional Development through Ecological Business..

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Simulation Modelling for Business is a comprehensive textbook ideal for use on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The first section of the book provides a definition of simulation modelling and describes the skills and resources required to undertake a successful simulation study. Types of sim..

This is the first book on a new policy approach that has been widely adopted in Europe and beyond. It analyses the concept of smart specialisation and discuss the need for smart specialisation strategies, explains why the approach is new and different from more standard policy processes and explores..

Originally published in 1989 this study examines the development of the iron industry in the USA between 1839 and 1921 through the study of one of the leading merchant furnace companies. It provides a clear understanding of the destructive forces of industrial innovation and the place of creative en..

Technology, Business and the Market provides an understanding of the connections between developing technologies, research and development, industrial design and the means by which these elements are managed to produce desirable products. John Sheldrake’s long experience of teaching business and man..

Originally published in 1967 and the result of extensive interviews and case studies, this book examines the implications of technical change. Although focussed on the early introduction of computers the kinds of problems discussed in this book are found in technical change more widely and the book ..

Using theoretical models such as the Averch-Johnson model and a two-stage Nash equilibrium model, Frank looks at what impact government rate of return regulation has on the level of technological innovation of firms in a monopolistic market structure...