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Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

Innovation: A Very Short Introduction

This book demonstrates how innovation is used to create wealth, productivity growth, and improved quality of life

Innovation Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Innovation Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Innovation is the means by which organizations survive and thrive in uncertain and turbulent conditions. Innovation management has become a well-established field of research, teaching and practice, with a substantial literature. As a broad-based research field, contributions stem from an array of perspectives including science, economics, engineering and psychology. Innovation is crucial for economic and social progress, and it needs to be managed in order to be beneficial. Innovation Management: A Research Overview provides a concise introduction to the best research on innovation management. It covers four main themes: foundational studies, key concepts and frameworks, important empirical...

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 722

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.

The Playful Entrepreneur
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Playful Entrepreneur

A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this book explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations. Dodgson and Gann identify four key behaviors that endorse, encourage, and guide play: grace, craft, fortitude, and ambition, and provide a blueprint for an alternative way of working that fosters resilience and encourages innovation and growth in difficult times.

The Management of Technological Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

The Management of Technological Innovation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-02-07
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations. The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide t...

The Management of Technological Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

The Management of Technological Innovation

The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations.The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide to...

Demystifying China's Innovation Machine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Demystifying China's Innovation Machine

China's extraordinary economic development is explained in large part by the way it innovates. Contrary to widely held views, China's innovation machine is not created and controlled by an all-powerful government. Instead, it is a complex, interdependent system composed of various elements, involving bottom-up innovation driven by innovators and entrepreneurs and highly pragmatic and adaptive top-down policy. Using case studies of leading firms and industries, along with statistics and policy analysis, this book argues that China's innovation machine is similar to a natural ecosystem. Innovations in technology, organization, and business models resemble genetic mutations which are initially ...

Philanthropy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 125

Philanthropy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Intended as an essential introduction to philanthropy, this book provides a balanced, analytical, interdisciplinary overview of a complex, and often controversial, topic. Using case studies to illustrate the narrative, it covers everything from the history of individual, sometimes eccentric, philanthropists, to the controversies and challenges of ‘philanthrocapitalism’. This book explores philanthropists and their motivations: who are they and why do they give their money away? It explains what philanthropy does: its history and scope, and the impacts it has in areas such as science and the arts. The governance of philanthropy is explored: how decisions are reached about donations and th...

The Management of Technological Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Management of Technological Innovation

"This text will be an important resource for academics, students, and managers throughout the world. It is a recommended text for students of technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses."--Jacket.

Think, Play, Do
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Think, Play, Do

"This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and public policy-makers."--Book jacket.