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Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations
and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to
by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'. This ambitious
and wide ranging book makes the case for a new approach to the
study of innovation. It is the editors' conviction that this
approach must accomplish several objectives: it must recognise that
innovation encompasses changes in organizations and society, as
well as products and processes; it must be genuinely
interdisciplinary and include contributes from economics,
sociology, management and political science; It must be
international, to reflect both different patterns or systems of
innovation, and different research traditions; and it must reflect
the fundamental changes taking place in science, research and
knowledge creation at all levels. To this end they have gathered
together a distinguished group of economists, sociologists,
political scientists, and organization, innovation and
institutional theorists to both assess current research on
innovation, and to set out a new research agenda. This has been
achieved through careful planning and development of the project,
and also through the ensuing structure of the book which looks in
turn at Product and Process Innovation (perhaps the best
established focus of existing research on innovation), Scientific
Research (assessing the changing character of basic research and
science policy); Knowledge Dynamics in Context (encompassing
organizational learning in all its aspects); and Institutional
Change (an analysis of the institutional context that can shape,
enable and constrain innovation). This carefully integrated and
wide ranging book will be an ideal reference point for academics
and researchers across the Social Sciences interested in all
dimensions of innovation - be they in the field of Management
Studies, Economics, Organization Studies, Sociology, Political
Science and Science and Technology Studies.
Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations
and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to
by Schumpeter as "gales of creative destruction."
This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new
approach to the study of innovation. It is the editors' conviction
that this approach must accomplish several objectives: it must
recognise that innovation encompasses changes in organizations and
society, as well as products and processes; it must be genuinely
interdisciplinary and include contributes from economics,
sociology, management and political science; it must be
international, to reflect both different patterns or systems of
innovation, and different research traditions; and it must reflect
the fundamental changes taking place in science, research and
knowledge creation at all levels.
To this end they have gathered together a distinguished group of
economists, sociologists, political scientists, and organization,
innovation and institutional theorists to both assess current
research on innovation, and to set out a new research agenda. This
has been achieved through careful planning and development of the
project, and also through the ensuing structure of the book which
looks in turn at Product and Process Innovation (perhaps the best
established focus of existing research on innovation), Scientific
Research (assessing the changing character of basic research and
science policy); Knowledge Dynamics in Context (encompassing
organizational learning in all its aspects); and Institutional
Change (an analysis of the institutional context that can shape,
enable and constrain innovation).
This carefully integrated and wide ranging book will be an ideal
reference point for academics and researchers across the Social
Sciences interested in all dimensions of innovation--be they in the
field of Management Studies, Economics, Organization Studies,
Sociology, Political Science and Science and Technology Studies.
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