Innovation Management and New Product Development EBook PDF_o6

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Plan of the book -- Part One Innovation management -- 1 Innovation management: an introduction -- The importance of innovation -- The study of innovation -- Two traditions of innovation studies: Europe and the USA -- Recent and contemporary studies -- The need to view innovation in an organisational context -- Individuals in the innovation process -- Problems of definition and vocabulary -- Entrepreneurship -- Design -- Innovation and invention -- Successful and unsuccessful innovations -- Different types of innovation -- Technology and science -- Popular views of innovation -- Models of innovation -- Serendipity -- Linear models -- Simultaneous coupling model -- Architectural innovation -- Interactive model -- Innovation life cycle and dominant designs -- Open innovation and the need to share and exchange knowledge (network models) -- Doing, using and interacting (DUI) mode of innovation -- Discontinuous innovation - step changes -- Innovation as a management process -- A framework for the management of innovation -- New skills -- Innovation and new product development -- Case study: Has the Apple innovation machine stalled? -- Chapter summary -- Discussion questions -- Key words and phrases -- References -- Further reading -- 2 National systems of innovation and entrepreneurship -- Innovation in its wider context -- The role of the state and national 'systems' of innovation -- Why firms depend on the state for so much -- How national states can facilitate innovation -- National scientific capacity and R&amp -- D offshoring -- The impact of the economic crisis on innovation -- Fostering innovation in the United States and Japan -- Triple Helix of university-industry-government relationships that drives innovation