EBOOK: Exploring Innovation

EBOOK: Exploring Innovation
Author: David Smith
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0077158407

The third edition of Exploring Innovation offers an engaging new perspective on innovation. The book provides business students with a clear understanding of the nature of innovation and how it can be managed and fostered. Written in an accessible style, Exploring Innovation encourages students to challenge their pre-conceived ideas about innovation and to see it as a continuous, on-going process, by exploring some of the biggest developments in innovation. Lively discussions of key concepts are provide through numerous case studies, on a range of original products and services, bringing business theories to life. The new edition has been fully revised and updated with a more intuitive structure to now feature: A greater emphasis on what innovation involves. A new chapter on Value Capture. Expanded coverage on Services and Process Innovations. Two new chapters covering Global and Green trends in innovation. 8 new major case studies and more than 40 new mini-cases including Twitter, Angry Birds, Netflick, Google and Toyota.

Exploring Innovation in a Digital World

Exploring Innovation in a Digital World
Author: Federica Ceci
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030878422

Innovation is occurring at a rapid pace in digital work and demands increasing attention from academic scholars. In line with this demand, this book aims to provide an overview of recent advances in studies of innovation and technology in the digital space. The book addresses the cultural elements influencing the diffusion and adoption of digital technologies, the pervasive role of social media, the organizational challenges of digital transformations, and finally specific emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology. The plurality of views offered makes this book particularly relevant to practitioners, academics, and policymakers, and provides an up-to-date view of the latest developments in Information Systems. It gathers a selection of the best papers (double-blind peer-reviewed) presented at the annual conference of the Italian AIS Chapter in October 2020 in Pescara, Italy.

Exploring Creativity

Exploring Creativity
Author: Brian Moeran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107355524

Under the guidance of Moeran and Christensen, the authors in this volume examine evaluative practices in the creative industries by exploring the processes surrounding the conception, design, manufacture, appraisal and use of creative goods. They describe the editorial choices made by different participants in a 'creative world', as they go about conceiving, composing or designing, performing or making, selling and assessing a range of cultural products. The study draws upon ethnographically rich case studies from companies as varied as Bang and Olufsen, Hugo Boss and Lonely Planet, in order to reveal the broad range of factors guiding and inhibiting creative processes. Some of these constraints are material and technical; others are social or defined by aesthetic norms. The authors explore how these various constraints affect creative work, and how ultimately they contribute to the development of creativity.

The Innovation Navigator

The Innovation Navigator
Author: Tucker J Marion
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 148751252X

Innovation is a top strategic priority for firms across all industries. In The Innovation Navigator, Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson explore four innovation archetypes or modes – "specialist," "venture," "community," and "network" – which feature prominently in the expanding innovation landscape. Specialists employ technologies to achieve entirely new solutions and superior product performance. New corporate ventures lower the barriers for employees to self-select into entrepreneurial projects, while reducing the constraints of bureaucracy. The community brings new sources of knowledge by expanding past the firm's boundaries, dramatically increasing the number of participants. The network creates partnerships and ecosystems that create innovations that could not be developed by individual companies alone. The Innovation Navigator guides the reader in exploring and exploiting these different modes of innovation. Individual chapters provide key insights into the inherent opportunities and challenges from a number of vantage points: from the impact on organizational resources to the role of incentives. The book also provides a framework for how firms can leverage dynamic mode shifts and multimode strategies. Firms across the industrial spectrum are profiled, from new additive manufacturing companies such as Formlabs, community-based solution providers like Forth, to traditional firms exploring new modes like GE Appliances and their FirstBuild initiative. The Innovation Navigator will assist executives in building the capabilities for peak performance in this new innovation landscape.

Innovation in Firms A Microeconomic Perspective

Innovation in Firms A Microeconomic Perspective
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-12-14
Genre:
ISBN:

This book presents the main results of the OECD Innovation Microdata Project -- the first large-scale effort to exploit firm-level data from innovation surveys across 20 countries in an internationally harmonised way, with a view to addressing common analytical questions.

Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation

Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation
Author: Oliver Gassmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319411446

Presenting a broad literature review of scholarly work in the area of Business Model Innovation, this new book analyses 50 management theories in the context of BMI to yield valuable new insights. Research on BMI is still in its infancy and has so far proved to be more than just a sub-discipline of strategy or innovation research. Exploring the field of Business Innovation demonstrates the importance of the discipline as a more specialized management research field and offers new understandings of this important subject. It presents ‘grand theories’ that will help researchers approach BMI through a different angle and describes business models as phenomena, enabling readers to understand their patterns and mechanisms. Reviewing the most important academic work on the subject over the last 15 years, the authors aim to open up the debate and inspire researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.

Three Horizons

Three Horizons
Author: Bill Sharpe
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1911193872

A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it

Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation

Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation
Author: Birgitte Andersen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782542391

'Birgitte Andersen revisits in a modern context the ideas of Kuznets on technological growth paths, but emphasises the structural variety in patenting where earlier authors focused on aggregate trends. This is an important contribution for scholars interested in the interface between the recent history of technology and evolutionary economics.' - John Cantwell, Rutgers University, US