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The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management offers a comprehensive
and timely analysis of the nature and importance of innovation and
the strategies and practices that can be used to improve
organizational benefits from innovation. Innovation is centrally
important for business and national competitiveness, and for the
quality and standard of living around the world, but it does not
happen by itself. For innovation to succeed, it needs to be
properly managed. With contributions from 49 world-leading
scholars, the Handbook explores the many sources of innovation, the
broader social, economic, and technological contexts that encourage
and constrain it, and the cutting-edge strategies and practices of
innovation management. The book addresses the traditional concerns
of innovation management-such as managing R&D, intellectual
property, and creativity, and the contributions of science and
marketing-but substantially extends traditional areas of interest.
In this new volume, chapters examine emerging topics including
design, social networks, open and social innovation, and innovation
in business models, ecosystems, services, and platforms. The book
explores the importance of innovation management for environmental
sustainability, and its evolving nature and practice in Asia.
Written in an accessible style, and with carefully selected
bibliographies and a comprehensive index, the Handbook offers a
uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging source of knowledge about
innovation management. Each chapter identifies key issues and
reviews the most important research findings. Future research
questions are identified. The Handbook will be invaluable for
students and faculty studying, researching, and teaching
innovation, and for managers seeking to improve innovation outcomes
in their organizations.
Industrial innovation is essential for national and corporate
competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and
consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public
policymakers and all students of industry and business. This major
new reference book brings together specially commissioned
contributions by many leading world experts on a wide range of
issues concerning innovation. The first section provides an
introduction to the significance and process of industrial
innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it
occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies is followed by
assessments of the key issues affecting innovation. Another section
examines one of the main constraints on successful innovation: the
strategic management of technology in both products and processes.
As well as the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges
of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised
throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international
experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference
tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators
and policymakers.
This volume, originally published in 1993 is based on extensive
research and draws together a selection of detailed global case
studies illustrating a variety of issues from Japanese joint
ventures to small business development. It considers the scope and
scale of collaboration in order to assess the way successful
companies have achieved their growth. The book presents a synthesis
of business functions and economic analysis and asks what the
implications for skills development are; what effect public policy
has; how far such ventures can go and what decision making
processes are involved.
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 studies, and current
and emerging themes. The research discussed includes classic
studies, with core insights in the field, key thinking on
strategies and processes for innovation, well-established and novel
research methods, and issues of greatest contemporary importance.
This shortform book provides direction through the maze of research
on the nature, processes and outcomes of innovation management, and
provides an invaluable introduction to the literature on innovation
management for students and professionals.
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 their
accountability. The book addresses the major controversies
surrounding philanthropy, and discusses the difficulties involved
in giving and receiving, e.g. the importance of ensuring that these
processes are transparent and accountable. Lastly, the book
considers the future of philanthropy, especially its changing role
in society and the disruptive impact of digital technologies. Given
its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers
interested in philanthropy, innovation and entrepreneurship, the
motivations for individual and corporate donations, and the
business of giving in general.
Industrial innovation is essential for national and corporate
competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and
consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public
policymakers and all students of industry and business. This major
new reference book brings together specially commissioned
contributions by many leading world experts on a wide range of
issues concerning innovation. The first section provides an
introduction to the significance and process of industrial
innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it
occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies is followed by
assessments of the key issues affecting innovation. Another section
examines one of the main constraints on successful innovation: the
strategic management of technology in both products and processes.
As well as the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges
of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised
throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international
experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference
tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators
and policymakers.
The option for consumers to make payments for services and products
via mobile telephones has created a dynamic new industry. High-Tech
Entrepreneurship in Asia illustrates how small, entrepreneurial
firms in Asia have devised and produced innovations crucial for
this industry's development. Marina Zhang and Mark Dodgson explore
the evolution of the mobile payment industry which has emerged in
recent years through the convergence of services provided by
financial and mobile telecommunications companies. They consider
how leading Asian economies are increasingly becoming the source of
important technological innovations. Detailed case studies are used
to reveal the technological, social, political, national and
cultural factors that encourage and constrain entrepreneurship in
Asia, paying particular attention to China and Korea, the industry
vanguards. The role played by entrepreneurial start-ups in bridging
the gap between banking, credit card and mobile telecommunications
sectors is also explored. This highly original work will strongly
appeal to students, researchers, policymakers and managers
interested in international entrepreneurship, innovation,
industrial and technological development and Asian business.
The innovation process is the most important of all business
processes. Innovation is the means by which value is constructed
and efficiencies are created. It is the source of sustainable
competitive advantage. This book shows how the innovation process
is changing profoundly. Part of the change results from the
application of new technologies to the innovation process itself. A
new category of technology has emerged which we call 'innovation
technology'. This includes simulation and modelling, visualization,
and rapid prototyping technologies. When used effectively,
innovation technology makes the innovation process more economical
and ameliorates some of its uncertainties. These technological
changes are accompanied by changing organization structures and
skills requirements. The technologies are used in fast moving,
creative environments and are suited to project-based organization.
They also require the development of new 'craft' skills to realize
the possibilities created by the new 'code'. The book outlines a
new way of thinking about innovation. Traditional definitions of
'research', 'development' and 'engineering', imply a progressive
linearity which doesn't exist in reality. They are also associated
with organizational departments, which are breaking down where once
they existed, and are in any case non-existent in the vast majority
of firms. They also fail to capture the central importance of
design in innovation. We propose a new schema for the innovation
process: Think, Play, Do. Innovation requires creating new ideas
and thinking about new options, playing with them to see if they
are practical, economical and marketable, and then doing: making
the innovation real. This new schema captures the emerging
innovation process using a more contemporary idiom. The book
reports in-depth studies from a number of companies and sectors.
Major case studies of Procter and Gamble and Arup Partners are
presented. It reports on the use of innovation technology in a
range of other companies and organizations, from pharmaceuticals in
GSK, to engineering design in Ricardo engineering , and welding in
TWI. We describe how innovation technology is used in traditional
industries, such as in mining, and in public projects, such as the
development of London's traffic congestion charge and the
stabilization of the leaning tower of Pisa.
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 studies, and current
and emerging themes. The research discussed includes classic
studies, with core insights in the field, key thinking on
strategies and processes for innovation, well-established and novel
research methods, and issues of greatest contemporary importance.
This shortform book provides direction through the maze of research
on the nature, processes and outcomes of innovation management, and
provides an invaluable introduction to the literature on innovation
management for students and professionals.
This volume, originally published in 1993 is based on extensive
research and draws together a selection of detailed global case
studies illustrating a variety of issues from Japanese joint
ventures to small business development. It considers the scope and
scale of collaboration in order to assess the way successful
companies have achieved their growth. The book presents a synthesis
of business functions and economic analysis and asks what the
implications for skills development are; what effect public policy
has; how far such ventures can go and what decision making
processes are involved.
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 their
accountability. The book addresses the major controversies
surrounding philanthropy, and discusses the difficulties involved
in giving and receiving, e.g. the importance of ensuring that these
processes are transparent and accountable. Lastly, the book
considers the future of philanthropy, especially its changing role
in society and the disruptive impact of digital technologies. Given
its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers
interested in philanthropy, innovation and entrepreneurship, the
motivations for individual and corporate donations, and the
business of giving in general.
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 random,
self-serving, and isolated, but the best fitting are selected by
the market and their impacts are amplified by the innovation
machine. This machine draws on China's multitude manufacturers,
supply chains, innovation clusters, and digitally literate
population, connected through super-sized digital platforms.
China's innovation suffers from a lack of basic research and
reliance upon certain critical technologies from overseas, yet its
scale (size) and scope (diversity) possess attributes that make it
self-correcting and stronger in the face of challenges. China's
innovation machine is most effective in a policy environment where
the market prevails; policy intervention plays a significant role
when market mechanisms are premature or fail. The future success of
China's innovation will depend on continuing policy pragmatism,
mass innovation, and entrepreneurship, and the development of the
'new infrastructures'.
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 the challenges of
MTI. By explaining the innovation process the book reveals the
broad scope of MTI and its importance for company survival, growth
and sustainability. It describes how MTI has to be managed
strategically and how this is successfully achieved by formulating
and implementing strategy and delivering value. Chapters provide
frameworks, tools and techniques, and case studies on managing:
innovation strategy, communities, and networks, R&D, design and
new product and service development, operations and production, and
commercialization. Based on robust analysis, the book provides a
wide range of empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case
studies, with around fifty case studies newly written for this
edition. It analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies
large and small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based
business sectors. This new edition has been fully revised and
updated to reflect the latest teaching and research, and to ensure
its continuing relevance to the contemporary world of MTI. It will
be an important resource for academics, students, and managers
throughout the world, is a recommended text for students of
innovation and technology management at postgraduate and
undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses.
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 the challenges of MTI.
By explaining the innovation process the book reveals the broad
scope of MTI and its importance for company survival, growth and
sustainability. It describes how MTI has to be managed
strategically and how this is successfully achieved by formulating
and implementing strategy and delivering value. Chapters provide
frameworks, tools and techniques, and case studies on managing:
innovation strategy, communities, and networks, R&D, design and
new product and service development, operations and production, and
commercialization.
Based on robust analysis, the book provides a wide range of
empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case studies, with
around fifty case studies newly written for this edition. It
analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies large and
small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based business
sectors.
This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the
latest teaching and research, and to ensure its continuing
relevance to the contemporary world of MTI. It will be an important
resource for academics, students, and managers throughout the
world, is a recommended text for students of innovation and
technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and
is particularly valuable for MBA courses.
The innovation process is the most important of all business
processes. Innovation is the means by which value is constructed
and efficiencies are created. It is the source of sustainable
competitive advantage. This book shows how the innovation process
is changing profoundly. Part of the change results from the
application of new technologies to the innovation process itself. A
new category of technology has emerged which we call 'innovation
technology'. This includes simulation and modelling, visualization,
and rapid prototyping technologies. When used effectively,
innovation technology makes the innovation process more economical
and ameliorates some of its uncertainties. These technological
changes are accompanied by changing organization structures and
skills requirements. The technologies are used in fast moving,
creative environments and are suited to project-based organization.
They also require the development of new 'craft' skills to realize
the possibilities created by the new 'code'. The book outlines a
new way of thinking about innovation. Traditional definitions of
'research', 'development' and 'engineering', imply a progressive
linearity which doesn't exist in reality. They are also associated
with organizational departments, which are breaking down where once
they existed, and are in any case non-existent in the vast majority
of firms. They also fail to capture the central importance of
design in innovation. We propose a new schema for the innovation
process: Think, Play, Do. Innovation requires creating new ideas
and thinking about new options, playing with them to see if they
are practical, economical and marketable, and then doing: making
the innovation real. This new schema captures the emerging
innovation process using a more contemporary idiom. The book
reports in-depth studies from a number of companies and sectors.
Major case studies of Procter and Gamble and Arup Partners are
presented. It reports on the use of innovation technology in a
range of other companies and organizations, from pharmaceuticals in
GSK, to engineering design in Ricardo engineering , and welding in
TWI. We describe how innovation technology is used in traditional
industries, such as in mining, and in public projects, such as the
development of London's traffic congestion charge and the
stabilization of the leaning tower of Pisa.
What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we
use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable,
plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is
an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world
has hit an accelerated rate of transformation. From aeroplanes to
television and penicillin, and from radios to frozen food and
digital money, the fruits of innovation surround us. This Very
Short Introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects
us so profoundly. It examines how it occurs, who stimulates it, how
it is pursued, and what its outcomes are, both positive and
negative. Considering innovation today, and discussing future
disruptive technologies such as AI, which have important
implications for work and employment, Mark Dodgson and David Gann
consider the extent to which our understanding of innovation has
developed over the past century and how it might be used to
interpret the global economy. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
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.
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 Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management offers a comprehensive
and timely analysis of the nature and importance of innovation and
the strategies and practices that can be used to improve
organizational benefits from innovation. Innovation is centrally
important for business and national competitiveness, and for the
quality and standard of living around the world, but it does not
happen by itself. For innovation to succeed, it needs to be
properly managed. With contributions from 49 world-leading
scholars, the Handbook explores the many sources of innovation, the
broader social, economic, and technological contexts that encourage
and constrain it, and the cutting-edge strategies and practices of
innovation management. The book addresses the traditional concerns
of innovation management-such as managing R&D, intellectual
property, and creativity, and the contributions of science and
marketing-but substantially extends traditional areas of interest.
In this new volume, chapters examine emerging topics including
design, social networks, open and social innovation, and innovation
in business models, ecosystems, services, and platforms. The book
explores the importance of innovation management for environmental
sustainability, and its evolving nature and practice in Asia.
Written in an accessible style, and with carefully selected
bibliographies and a comprehensive index, the Handbook offers a
uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging source of knowledge about
innovation management. Each chapter identifies key issues and
reviews the most important research findings. Future research
questions are identified. The Handbook will be invaluable for
students and faculty studying, researching, and teaching
innovation, and for managers seeking to improve innovation outcomes
in their organizations.
Innovation is the means by which organizations survive and thrive
in uncertain and turbulent conditions. Technological change,
globalization, and changing patterns of consumption are compounding
the complex and rapidly changing circumstances in which
organizations operate. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company
has dropped from 40 to 15 years. One half of all USA start-ups go
out of business before their fourth year. Innovation - the
successful application of new ideas - allows organizations to
understand, respond to, and lead the changes needed to endure and
succeed in such environments. Innovation is what connects knowledge
with economic action. Innovation does not happen automatically: it
has to be managed. We now have a substantial body of robust
literature that explains why innovation needs to be managed, what
is to be done and how it is to be done. The emphasis is on 'robust'
- ie high-quality theoretical and empirical - research because
innovation is an area renowned in its demand for and supply of
simplistic solutions. It is a concept that is often misunderstood
and misrepresented. Organizations want quick and easy answers to
their innovation problems, and there's no shortage of consultants
prepared to sell them. Innovation management is also highly topical
and there is no shortage of mediocre research in the field (there
is a rapid increase in the number of journals with 'innovation' in
the title). Fortunately we have a substantial number of seminal,
'classic' articles. It is the intent of this collection to publish
a structured selection of these papers. Together they will provide
an authoritative guide on the field, its development, core content,
and current and emerging issues. It will provide a guide through
the maze of confusion around the nature, process and outcomes of
innovation management, and will be an invaluable source for those
studying and researching the subject. This will include those in
the increasing number of specialist postgraduate courses in the
area, and in undergraduate programmes in business and engineering.
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