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This book is a collection of articles of a multidisciplinary nature all contributing to a theme of changes in innovation and innovation processes. It creates new knowledge about crucial issues in the innovation environment which form critical intelligence in innovation strategies for firms and decision makers. This is performed with the help of a unique database on individual innovations applying the object approach. This book contributes in three distinct ways in better understanding the economic renewal. Firstly, it will help decision makers and industry to apply a more pro-active approach in innovation and innovation policy. Secondly, it significantly strengthens the small and fragmented academic field of innovation studies. Finally, the book creates awareness and improves knowledge of a wide range of aspects of innovation for business actors which are in support of developing their innovation activities.

Table of Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION Changes in Innovation; J.Saarinen & N.Rilla Innovation as Objective - The Sfinno Approach; R.van der Have, J.Saarinen, P.Pesonen & N.Rilla PART II: CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATION Professionalisation of Research and Development Activities in Finnish Companies Before 1970s; J.Saarinen The Existence and Nature of Innovation in Mature Industry - Case Finnish Forest Industry; P.Pesonen Are There Failing Innovations? In Search of Understanding of Failure in Innovation Activities; N.Rilla & J.Oksanen PART III: SECTORAL ASPECTS OF INNOVATION Innovation and Dynamic Strategy - Planning and Implementing Continuous Renewal; P.Pesonen Spatial Changes in Innovation Processes Over Time in Finland; J.Saarinen & J.Oksanen Convergence in Innovatio; J.Saarinen & R.van der Have PART IV: RECENT TRENDS IN INNOVATION International Dimension of Innovation Process - Evidence of Finnish Innovation Data; N.Rilla When the Going gets Tough -- Failure of Innovative Businesses; P.Pesonen & R.van der Have Framing Elements of Service Innovation; R.van der Have PART V: EPILOGUE Studies of Innovation: Challenges and Possibilities -- Researchers' Perspective; N.Rilla & J.Saarinen

About the Author :
JANI SAARINEN works as innovation and technology policy manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Trained in both research policy and economic history, Saarinen studies innovation at the intersection of science, technology, and industry. His work includes extensive studies of industrial research and development, commercialization- and business-models of innovations, the development of manufacturing technology in the Finland, and studies related to innovation and technology policies. In addition, he has expertise in topics like innovation activities and technological evolution of firms and industries, long-term changes in the nature of R&D-activities of firms and research centres, and also various issues related to patents and human capital. NINA RILLA works as a research scientist at VTT within the team 'Innovation and Industrial Renewal'. Her research interest lay in the field of industrial innovation, as well as on internationalization of companies and their innovation activities, and R&D in general. She has been focusing on investigating the changes in the innovation process, particularly from an innovation networks' and innovation failure's perspective.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230248625
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Towards an Improved Understanding of Economic Renewal
  • ISBN-10: 0230248624
  • Publisher Date: 16 Sep 2009
  • Language: English


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