Author: Lars Fuglsang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: innovation, horizons, economics, new, towards, creative, process, care
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 1847203876
ISBN-13: 9781847203878

This book explores new frameworks and methods of understanding and analysing innovation. These are set against a backdrop of ’innovation with care’, which is seen as a phenomenon that takes place among many actors with different perspectives, ideas and cultures that must be carefully woven together in order to achieve the benefits of innovation. The new perspectives presented by the contributors will be important in encouraging successful innovation across sectors, organizations and people. They examine how people and organizations deal with the tensions and paradoxes in the innova

Author: Jan Verloop
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: innovation, laws, understanding, managing, insight
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2004-05-22
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0444516832
ISBN-13: 9780444516831

Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, entrepreneurship or venturing. This book is not about providing a series of recipes on innovation management or a collection of case stories on how to do innovation or not. The few examples given are well known innovations from (Shell) history and all of them have been described before in the literature. However, this book does not focus on the brilliant

Author: Shantha Liyanage
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: innovation, based, technology, knowledge, science, management, managing, strategic, systems, approach, serencipitous
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $157.95
ISBN-10: 1567204872
ISBN-13: 9781567204872

Innovation is a time-consuming process that involves invention as a beginning and a marketable service or product as an end. But innovation itself, once concluded, is not necessarily a constructive act as some innovations yield positive and some negative results. The way we recognize and develop innovation—so often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginning—is thus a matter of primary importance in today’s world where new thoughts and products play such a crucial role in economies across the globe. Nowhere is the general support structure required for success

Authors:Guus Berkhout, Guus Berkhout, Patrick Van Der Duin, D
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: innovation, study, advances, entrepreneurship, economic, growth, volume, soft, connecting, nature, hard, sciences, cyclic, values
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-08-10
List price: $116.95
ISBN-10: 0762313366
ISBN-13: 9780762313365

This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. Research topics covered include all aspects of entrepreneurial behavior - the determinants of research and development, intellectual property concerns, innovation within and across firms, the effect of government regulation and tax policies, patenting and other property rights issues, organizational factors, market structure effects, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship programs and other educational activities, and the relative performance of entrepreneurial firms. The

Authors:IOS Press, V. J. J. M. Bekkers,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: public, innovation, sector, modernization, administration, driven, assessing, communication, technology, information, ict
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $183.00
ISBN-10: 1586036262
ISBN-13: 9781586036263

The modernization of public administration is a recurring theme on the political and public agenda in many countries. Modernization presupposes innovation. However, is an innovative public administration a contradiction in terminis? If we look at the practice of public administration, and evaluate -from an evolutionary perspective - how public administration has transformed itself during the last 40 years, we actually see a variety of radical and incremental changes. Hence, innovation does take place. This book clearly demonstrates how public administration organizations try to adapt to changi

Author:
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: innovation, studies, policy, case, volume, systems, governance
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2005-12
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 926401344X
ISBN-13: 9789264013445

Author: Jens Horbach
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: innovation, sustainability, sustainable, systems, indicator
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2005-03-14
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3790815535
ISBN-13: 9783790815535

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realization of a sustainable development. The book links the experiences of different research projects with the aim to develop a system of indicators to evaluate sustainable effects of (environmental) innovations. A comprehensive framework for an indicator system is established that al