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. -.
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Description based upon print version of record. 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. -.
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CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES LIST OF BOXES ABBREVIATIONS 1 What is the Management of Technological Innovation and Why is it Important? Introduction Why is MTI so important? The challenges of MTI Case studies in MTI Summary and conclusions 2 The Business Context for the Management of Technological Innovation Introduction The changing nature of industry and business Business and innovation systems The changing nature of management Globalization Summary and conclusions 3 Technological Innovation Introduction.
Types and extent of innovation Managing incremental and radical innovation The changing nature of the innovation process The fifth-generation innovation process Sources of innovation Measuring innovation Outcomes of innovation Summary and conclusions 4 Innovation Strategy Introduction What is an innovation strategy? Why is innovation strategy important? Innovation strategy in practice Types of innovation strategy Formulating an innovation strategy Building innovative capabilities Returns from innovation strategy Innovation strategy in SMEs.
Summary and conclusions 5 Networks and Communities Introduction What are networks and why are they important? Scientific networks Social capital Harnessing users for innovation Technological collaborations Why do firms collaborate to develop technology? The extent of technological collaboration The challenges of managing technological collaboration Organizational learning in networks and communities Trust in networks and communities Summary and conclusions 6 The Management of Research and Development Introduction Why do firms do R & D?.
Patterns of R & D expenditure Organizing R & D Managing research teams Managing creativity in research Balancing research portfolios Managing international R & D Summary and conclusions 7 The Management of Product and Service Innovation Introduction What is a product or service innovation? The potential benefits of PSI Failure in PSI Encouraging successful PSI The role of design in PSI Summary and conclusions 8 Innovation in Operations and Processes Introduction What are operations? The innovation-operations conundrum.
Importance of operations for delivering innovation Industry, technology, and markets Techniques of operations and production management Lean production Automation Investment appraisal techniques The internal integration of operations and production The external integration of operations and production Innovation in processes Summary and conclusions 9 Delivering Value from Innovation Introduction Positioning in the value chain Private and social returns to innovation Selecting paths to market How to commercialize Standards.
Marketing technology products/downstream support.
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Print version: Dodgson, Mark Management of Technological Innovation : Strategy and Practice Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK,c2008