Contemporary Management of Innovation

Are We Asking the Right Questions?

J. Sundbo, A. Gallina, G. Serin, J. Davis, J. Sundbo, A. Gallina, G. Serin, J. Davis

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781349545698
  9781403996725
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230378841
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Strategy
• Index: Business

Both society and markets have changed, and the art of innovation has changed with them, becoming increasingly complex. The book comprises the chapters of twenty-two European innovation researchers. The authors challenge existing innovation theory and management dogma and present new theoretical perspectives. Beginning with theoretical analyses of the innovation management field, the book turns to the institutional and geographic factors underlying innovation, and the potential posed by a 'soft' or organizational view of innovation management, before concluding with a section on the management of knowledge, information and appropriability.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contemporary Management of Innovation
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributor
• Introduction New Tendencies in Society. The Management of Innovation and Innovation Research
• 1 The Rise and Fall of Management of Innovation. The Transformation of a Concept and of Management Practice in the Knowledge Economy
• 2 From R&D Management to Management of Innovation. Research on the Organizational Factor, Trends, Mainstream and Hidden Treasures
• Introduction Diffusion Processes in the Firms and in the Territory
• 3 Co-publishing and Innovation. Bioscience Defies a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Definition
• 4 Agglomeration or Cross-border ICT Cluster? The Öresund Region
• 5 Innovation and Firm Consumption. A New Perspective?
• 6 Innovation and Diffusion of Site-specific Crop Management
• Introduction The Organizational or ‘Soft’ Aspects of Innovation
• 7 Do Network Structures Follow Innovation Strategy? Chandler Revisited with Learning as an Intermediary Variable
• 8 Strategic Reflexivity as a Framework for Understanding Development in Modern Firms. How the Environment Drives Innovation
• 9 Innovation as Institutional Change. A Complexity Approach
• 10 Towards a Better Measurement of the Soft Side of Innovation. First Results of an Experiment Aimed at Measuring Non-technological Innovation Using an Adapted Innovation Survey in the Netherlands
• Introduction Information, Knowledge and Appropriability
• 11 The Governance of Technological Knowledge. To Use or Sell
• 12 Prizes as Incentives. Reflections on a Century o f Aviation Contests
• 13 Patent Policies of Small Danish Firms in Three Industries
• Index