About the Book
Both society and markets have changed, and the art of innovation has changed with them, becoming increasingly complex. The book comprises the chapters of twenty-two European innovation researchers. The authors challenge existing innovation theory and management dogma and present new theoretical perspectives. Beginning with theoretical analyses of the innovation management field, the book turns to the institutional and geographic factors underlying innovation, and the potential posed by a 'soft' or organizational view of innovation management, before concluding with a section on the management of knowledge, information and appropriability.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors PART 1: MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION - ARE WE LOOKING AT THE RIGHT THINGS? Introduction: New Tendencies in Society; J.Sundbo The Rise and Fall of the Management of Innovation; S.Laestadius From R&D Management to Management of Innovation; M.Meeus PART 2: THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION AND THE ROLE OF COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND TERRITORIES Introduction: Diffusion Processes in the Firms and in the Territory; A.Gallina & G.Serin Co-Publishing and Innovation; P.Cooke Agglomeration or Cross-Border ICT Cluster?; P.Hansen & G.Serin Innovation and Firm Consumption; J.Howells Innovation and Diffusion of Site-Specific Crop Management; S.M.Pedersen & J.L.Pedersen PART 3: ORGANIZATION OF INNOVATION Introduction: The Organizational or 'Soft' Aspects of Innovation; J.Sundbo Do Network Structures follow Innovation Strategy?; M.Meeus, J.Faber & L.A.G.Oerlemans Strategic Reflexivity as a Framework for Understanding Development in Modern Firms; J.Sundbo & L.Fuglsang Innovation as Institutional Change; J.Guia, L.Prats & J.Comas Towards a Better Measurement of the Soft Side of Innovation; P.den Hertog, T.Poot & G.Meinen PART 4: ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Appropriability; J.Davis The Governance of Technological Knowledge; C.Antonelli Prizes as Incentives; L.Davis & J.Davis Patent Policies of Small Danish Firms in Three Industries; L.Davis Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
About the Author :
STAFFAN LAESTADIUS Professor of Industrial Dynamics, School of
Industrial Engineering and Management, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm
MARIUS T.H.MEEUS Professor of Innovation and Organization, Department of Innovation and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Geography of Utrecht University.
PHIL COOKE University Research Professor in Regional Economic Development, and founding Director (1993) of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, UK
POVL A. HANSEN Dr in Economic History and Associated Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark
JEREMY HOWELLS Executive Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC) and Policy Research for Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST), Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), University of Manchester, UK
SØREN MARCUS PEDERSEN Senior Researcher at The Food and Resource Economics Institute at KVL
JØRGEN LINDGAARD PEDERSEN Associate Professor, Department of Manufacturing, Engineering and Management, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
JAN FABER Associate Professor of Methodology of Innovation Research, Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of GeoSciences, Utrecht University
LEON OERLEMANS Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Extraordinary Professor Economics of Innovation, Department of Engineering andTechnology Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa
LARS FUGLSANG Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
JAUME GUIA Associate Professor, Department of Business Organization and Management, University of Girona
LLUIS PRATS Assistant Professor, Department of Business Organization and Management, Universtity of Girona
JORDI COMAS Associate Professor, Department of Business Organization and Management, Universtity of Girona
PIM DEN DERTOG Senior Researcher and Co-director, Dialogic Innovation & Interaction, Utrecht
TOM POOT Assistant Professor of Economics of Innovation, University Utrecht
GERHARD MEINEN Project Manager, R&D and Innovation Statistics, Statistics Netherlands
CRISTIANO ANTONELLI Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Torino, Italy
LEE DAVIS Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, and Research Associate, Centre on Law, Economics and Financial Institutions, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
