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Management of Technological Innovation : Strategy and Practice.
2008
Details
Title
Management of Technological Innovation : Strategy and Practice.
Edition
Second edition.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (402 pages)
ISBN
9780191526046 electronic book
Summary
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. -.
of innovation and technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses. -.
Note
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. -.
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. -.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Dodgson, Mark Management of Technological Innovation : Strategy and Practice Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK,c2008
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2008.
Language
English
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