Innovation Management

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre and is taking place at enormous speed. Robots will bring about the informatization of work such that the way we work, where we work and our relationships with our colleagues and employers are all in a state of chang..

Best Practice: Process Innovation Management highlights best practice in innovation by bringing together practitioners and researchers in this field. This book presents contributions from leading academics and practitioners involved with innovation. They bring together all the strands of research, b..

Brain Based Enterprises offers a unique synthesis of intelligent thought fused with pragmatic and pithy insights on the art and discipline of leading enterprises, where intelligence, ideas and innovation are the currencies of Sustainable Coopetive Advantage (SCA)...

Despite evidence of the increasing importance of knowledge and innovation, there has been relatively little research to understand the distribution and coordination of innovation and knowledge-intensive economic activities on a global scale – and what this might mean for economic development. This b..

_x005F_x000D_ Catching Up and Leapfrogging Strategies in the Integrated Circuits Industry explores how technological transitions affect latecomer catch-up strategies, and vice versa, in a high technology industry. It looks to the East Asian latecomers who, towards the end of the 20th century, pionee..

The book goes behind the innovation frenzy characterizing society today. It brings attention to the commercial waste, policy ineffectiveness and human suffering caused by the way corporations have executed and policy makers have regulated innovation. It emphasizes the unexploited opportunities of ap..

Co-Design and Social Innovation: Connections, Tensions and Opportunities explores the potential of co-design as a social innovation process. It reviews the diverse theoretical and disciplinary foundations on which co-design is based. It proposes a framework for understanding co-design as a cohesive ..

Looking across different industries, Collaborative Innovation offers new knowledge and insights on the extraordinary value and increasing necessity of collaboration across different organizations in improving the health and lives of people...

Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism is a comprehensive analysis of how tourism and hospitality businesses develop and implement innovative approaches and how they compete in dymanic markets. By combining innovation theories with network theories and tourism and destination develop..

Innovation is an important managerial instrument - but many of us struggle with how to approach it. Creating Innovative Products and Services has been written for directors, managers, advisors and innovation specialists in organisations who are responsible for, or involved in, product innovation or ..

Innovation is an important managerial instrument - but many of us struggle with how to approach it. Creating Innovative Products and Services has been written for directors, managers, advisors and innovation specialists in organisations who are responsible for, or involved in, product innovation or ..

Creative thinking, creative problem solving and creative idea generation have become essential business drivers. This book provides an executive briefing for senior management to understand what business creativity is, how it can benefit the company, and how to get the most out of it...