Springer, 2019. — 99 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Economics). — ISBN: 981133725X. This volume develops original methods of analyzing biased technological progress in the theory and empirics of economic growth and income distribution. Motivated by sharp increases in wage and income inequalities in the world since the beginning of the new century, many macroeconomists have begun to...
Springer, 2019. — 99 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Economics). — ISBN: 981133725X. This volume develops original methods of analyzing biased technological progress in the theory and empirics of economic growth and income distribution. Motivated by sharp increases in wage and income inequalities in the world since the beginning of the new century, many macroeconomists have begun to...
Agarwal R., Selen W., Roos G., Green R. Springer-Verlag London, 2015. — 857 p. — ISBN: 9781447165897, 9781447165903 ringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically...
Butterworth-Heinemann 2007, ISBN-10: 0750682361. c .147. Serious thinking based on solid research into how organizational structure and physical space affect innovation in industry. Editorial Reviews: "WOW! The collaboration between Allen and Henn is a unique synthesis of fundamental work on social networks, organizations, and innovation with fundamental ideas on physical space...
Hachette Books, 2008. — 267 p. The New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that's already here--now in paperback with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue. Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the Year In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of...
Springer, 2014. — 322 p. 47 illus., 8 illus. in color. — ISBN: 3319050761, 9783319050768 Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 240 p. — ISBN: 9783030864880, 303086488X. This textbook aims to guide, instruct, and inspire the next generation of innovation designers, managers, and leaders. Building upon an evidence-based innovation development process, it introduces, explains, and provides visual models and case examples of what Business Design is, how it is applied across...
O’Reilly 2007, ISBN10: 0-596-52705-5, c .192. From the author: The goal of this book is to use myths about innovation to understand how innovations happen. Each chapter discusses one myth, explores why it's popular, and then uses the history of innovations — recent and ancient — to explain the truth. Although debunking and demystifying does take place, the intent is to clarify...
Wiley 2003, c.257, ISBN-10: 0470847077. At a time when the turbulent and uncertain environment demands more innovation than ever, most businesses only engage a small proportion of their staff in innovative activities. Whilst they may have groups and individuals who are ‘licensed to innovate’ by virtue of their particular departmental badges (e.g. R&D, business development etc....
IGI Global, 2021. — 334 p. — ISBN: 9781799856900. Due to the emergence of innovative technologies, various professional fields are transforming their traditional business practices. Specifically, the financial and legal markets are experiencing this digital transformation as professionals and researchers are finding ways to improve efficiency, personalization, and security in...
Springer, 2016. — 307 p. — (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation). — ISBN10: 3319402641. This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level. It presents multi-disciplinary perspectives on organizational innovation in enterprises and...
Academic Press, 2018. — 311 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-804025-6. This book offers an original perspective on the links between macro data on innovation, data on micro-entrepreneurial processes and venture capital supply. The authors synthesize two disparate fields of research and thinking — innovation and entrepreneurship and economics — to illuminate how domestic companies compete...
Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; Policy and Global Affairs; National Research Council NAS Press, 2012. - 241 p. ISBN: 030926359X 9780309263597 The volume reviews the participants meeting and sets goals and recommendations for future policy. In response to new, more distributed innovation paradigm, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and...
Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2003. – 305 p. – ISBN: 1-57851-852-0 In his international bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen exposed this crushing paradox behind the failure of many industry leaders: by placing too much focus on pleasing their most profitable customers, these firms actually paved the way for their own demise by ignoring...
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2007. — 16 p. This is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. The way a company views its markets determines what it decides to produce, how it will take those products to market, who it believes its competitors to be, and how large it believes its market opportunities are. Most companies segment along lines defined by the characteristics of their...
Publisher: HarperBusiness, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0062435612; ISBN13: 978-0062435613. This game-changing book is filled with compelling real world examples, including from inside Intuit. Jobs Theory has had --and will continue to have ---a profound influence on Intuit’s approach to innovation. It just might change yours, too. (Scott Cook, Co-founder & Chairman of Intuit)...
Harvard Business School Press, 2003. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1578518520. Christensen analyzes the strategies that allow corporations to successfully grow new businesses and outpace the other players in the marketplace. Christensen's earlier book examined how focusing on profits can destroy even well-run corporations, while this book focuses on companies expanding by being "disruptors"...
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press; Rev Exp edition, 2013. — 3320 p. — ISBN10: 142219657; ISBN13: 978-1422196571. A seminal work on disruption — for everyone confronting the growth paradox. For readers of the bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma — and beyond — this definitive work will help anyone trying to transform their business right now. In The Innovator’s Solution,...
Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. — 256 p. Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition to his most recent book, Competing Against Luck, he is the author of nine books, including several New York Times bestsellers — The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, Disrupting Class, and and most...
3d ed. — Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. — 256 p. — (Management of innovation and change) — ISBN: 9780875845852, 142219602X. Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition to his most recent book, Competing Against Luck, he is the author of nine books, including several New York Times bestsellers...
Harvard Business School Press, 1997. — 179 p. — ISBN: 0875845851. The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, asks why some well-managed companies that stay on top of new technology and practice quality customer service can still falter. His own research brought a surprising answer to that question. Christensen suggests that by placing too great an emphasis...
Springer, 2016. — 236 p. — ISBN: 3319405993, 9783319405995 This book focuses on the theory and practice involved in the management of innovative activities that enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies. It presents a multi-criteria approach to the problem of selecting effective innovative projects and innovative technologies that increase...
Wiley-ISTE, 2018. — 206 p. — (Smart Innovation Set: Volume 15). — ISBN: 978-1-78630-203-8. This book takes stock of the state of the question on innovation in a particular area of education and training. But for this it must be noted that economists have appropriated the notion since Schumpeter and have constrained to think innovation in professions of intervention on others...
Publisher: Pearson FT Press, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0133039439; ISBN13: 978-0133039436. The Definitive Guide to Enterprise-Level Analytics Strategy, Technology, Implementation, and Management From the International Institute for Analytics, the world’s premier analytics research organization Proven best practices for choosing projects and technology, building analytics...
Harvard Business Review Press, 2010. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0875849067; ISBN13: 978-0875849065. This is a no-nonsense guide to the benefits and pitfalls of enterprise-wide information systems. How many organizations would doubt the promise of an integrated enterprise system (ES)? Not many, judging by a $15 billion industry. The combination of an ES as a platform for organizational...
Harvard Business Review Press, 1993. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0875843662; ISBN13: 978-0875843667. Simply formulating strategy is no longer sufficient; we must also design the processes to implement it effectively. The key to change is process innovation, a revolutionary new approach that fuses information technology and human resource management to improve business performance. The...
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2007. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 9781422103326; ISBN13: 978-1422103326. You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to “out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool. In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport and...
Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 142218725X; ISBN13: 978-1422187258. Why Everyone Needs Analytical Skills Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)—your world is awash with...
HarperBusiness, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0062438611; ISBN13: 978-0062438614. An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at...
Publicis, 2006. — 441 p. — ISBN10: 9783895782633; ISBN13: 978-3895782633. Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the...
Harvard Business Review Press, 1998. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 9780875846552; ISBN13: 978-0875846552. The definitive primer on knowledge management, this book will establish the enduring vocabulary and concepts and serve as the hands-on resource of choice for fast companies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Drawing on their work with...
Routledge, 2015. — 258 p. — ISBN: 0415603943, 9780415603942 There is concern in China that the strategy which has delivered massive economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, that China’s economy is too dependent on low value added manufacturing and not enough based on high value technological innovation. This book assesses the policies implemented in recent years to...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198825-04-8. What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world has hit...
NY: Harper, 1985. — 285 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-085113-2. This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service...
Collins; 1st edition; 1993 ISBN10: 0887306187, c.293 The first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as purposeful and systematic discipline which explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. A superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public survey institutions, and new yentures have to...
Technopolis-group, May 2008. 79 p. This report is the result of two-years of analysis and debate within the wider framework of the Europe INNOVA Sectoral Innovation Watch project. It sets out a conceptual framework for further analysis and policy development on eco-innovation; it brings together the available evidence on eco-innovation in a coherent framework; and it proposes a...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 670 p. This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans several fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 375 p. — ISBN 978- 1- 107- 03707- 6. From social media to mortgage-backed securities, innovation carries both risk and opportunity. Groups of people win, and lose, when innovation changes the ground rules. Looking beyond formal politics, this new book by Cristie Ford argues that we need to recognize innovation, and financial innovation in...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 354 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-47246-3. Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 824 p. Rising from a position of relative poverty in 1980, China is now the world's second-largest economy and a leader in many fields of innovation. Understanding China's new status as a technologically advanced world power and how it has reached that position will be critical to policy-makers and business leaders in the years ahead. The Oxford...
InTech, 2010, -390 p. The world economy of today is more integrated and interdependent than ever before. The fact that in many industries historically distinct and separate markets are merging into one global market leads towards an environment that offers more opportunities, but is also more complex and competitive than it used to be. One of the main factors that drive today’s...
Edward Elgar Pub, 2010. - 800 p. This Handbook brings together fifty international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world's post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services. Contemporary economies have two fundamental characteristics. Firstly, they are service economies in as much as services account for more than 70 per cent of...
Portfolio, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1591843715; ISBN13: 978-1591843719. A simple, powerful idea that's reinventing the way smart, adaptive companies do business. Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. What Lisa Gansky calls "Mesh" businesses throw this model out the window. Instead, these companies use social...
Portfolio, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1591843715; ISBN13: 978-1591843719. A simple, powerful idea that's reinventing the way smart, adaptive companies do business. Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. What Lisa Gansky calls "Mesh" businesses throw this model out the window. Instead, these companies use social...
Portfolio, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1591843715; ISBN13: 978-1591843719. A simple, powerful idea that's reinventing the way smart, adaptive companies do business. Most businesses follow the same basic formula: create a product or service, sell it, and collect money. What Lisa Gansky calls "Mesh" businesses throw this model out the window. Instead, these companies use social...
IEEE-USA, 2009. — 26 p. Doing Innovation: Creating Economic Value comes about from a concern that while innovation appears to receive considerable attention in the academic and business media, these so-called innovations provide little, if any, consistent and significant economic growth. Academia, government, and industry struggle to various degrees to translate ideas into...
IEEE-USA, 2009. — 32 p. Doing Innovation: Creating Economic Value comes about from a concern that while innovation appears to receive considerable attention in the academic and business media, these so-called innovations provide little, if any, consistent and significant economic growth. Academia, government, and industry struggle to various degrees to translate ideas into...
IEEE-USA, 2009. — 30 p. Doing Innovation: Creating Economic Value comes about from a concern that while innovation appears to receive considerable attention in the academic and business media, these so-called innovations provide little, if any, consistent and significant economic growth. Academia, government, and industry struggle to various degrees to translate ideas into...
Center for Creative Leadership 2003, ISBN: 1-882197-78-X, The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL's mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We think you will...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 331 p. — ISBN: 1137480289. Innovation is sweeping the globe at breakneck speed, and emerging markets are where tremendous growth and opportunity reside for the present and future. Jerry Haar and Ricardo Ernst delve into the forces and drivers that shape innovation in emerging markets and present case studies, along with a summation of the key...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78347-007-5. Innovation and standardization might seem polar opposites, but over many years various scholars have noted close connections between the two. This Handbook assembles a broad range of thinking on this subject, with contributions from several disciplinary perspectives by over 30 leading scholars and experienced...
Wiley – 2010, 384 p. ISBN: 0470601744, 9780470601747 Discover how to access your creative power to boost your success in business Success in business demands constant creativity. Generating fresh solutions to problems and the ability to invent new products or services for a changing market are part of the intellectual capital that gives a company its competitive edge. Business...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. - 221 p. Overview Users as Innovators ariations in the Functional Source of Innovation The Functional Source of Innovation as an Economic Phenomenon Testing the Relationship Between the Functional Source of Innovation and Expected Innovation Rents Cooperation Between Rivals: The Informal Trading of Technical Know-how Shifting the...
Intercom Inc., 2017. — 51 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9861392-3-9. Drawing together the most valuable lessons we’ve learned so far, Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done helps you understand the real job. customers are using your product for. Focus on the job. Understanding your real competitors. More than mattresses: using Jobs-to-be-Done research for software. Getting customers to switch. Where...
Springer, Heidelberg, 2014. — 302 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-04119-3. In creating the value-added product in not distant future, it is necessary and inevitable to establish a holistic and though-evoking approach to the engineering problem, which should be at least associated with the inter-disciplinary knowledge and thought processes across the whole engineering spheres. It is...
Jain G., Singh H., Akter S., Munjal A., Grewal H. — IGI Global, 2021. — 363 p. — (Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability). — ISBN: 978-1522599401. With the world uniting to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, change lies ahead for businesses. These organizations must rethink strategies and business behavior and assess their impact to align with sustainability...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 466 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-47127-5. Legendary economist Hyman Minsky identified author William H. Janeway as a 'theorist-practitioner' of financial economics; this book is an expression of that double life. Interweaving his unique professional perspective with political and financial history, Janeway narrates the dynamics of the...
Riverhead, 2011. – 327 p. – ISBN: 978-1-59448-771-2 The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery — these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are...
Kogan Page, 2010. — 338 p. — ISBN: 9780749456870, 0749456876. Unique features, distinctive capabilities, and exclusive know-how are the surest way to stay ahead of the market for any length of time. But the way these points of difference are created and commercialized is changing. The difficulty for most organizations is not in generating ideas, but in pursuing the right one at...
Kogan Page Ltd 2003, Kogan Page Ltd 2003, c .173. For many, says Dr Gary Hamell of Harvard Business School, innovation is "the only way to escape the ruthless hyper-competition that has been hammering down margins in industry after industry". This volume, based on research, seeks to find the characteristics and processes which distinguish truly innovative companies and to...
Hachette, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1781256145. IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation. There isn't a business in America...
Hachette, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1781256145. IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation. There isn't a business in America...
Hachette, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1781256145. IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation. There isn't a business in America...
Lead contractor: UM-MERIT Authors: René Kemp and Peter Pearson 2007. To offer a conceptual clarification of eco-innovation (developing a typology) based on an understanding of innovation dynamics. To identify and discuss the main methodological challenges in developing indicators and statistics on eco-innovation and to explore how they may be addressed. To propose possible...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-3319514659. This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic institutions, norms,...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1259860935. Are you spending too much on R&D? Too little? Is your innovation program successful? And how do you measure that success? Your company is spending millions on R&D every year, but despite your best efforts, that R&D isn’t driving growth. If you’re like 95% of firms, you aren’t investing the right amount, and the...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 254 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78536-637-6. Strategic innovation dynamically brings about strategic positioning through new products, services and business models. Through detailed reviews of existing dynamic capabilities and in-depth case studies, this book presents a theoretical model of a strategic innovation system to enable a large company to...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 422 p. ISBN: 0521862906 Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionized our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the technology - the significance of going digital; the miniaturization of circuit boards; the role of venture capital in financing the revolution; the importance of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-47287-6. In his previous Schumpeter Prize-winning work, Lee analysed the 'middle-income trap', in which a developing country grows strongly only to plateau at a certain point. Yet certain developing countries, most significantly China, have managed to escape this trap. Building on the conception of the ladder from...
Wiley, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1119151586. Innovate your way toward growth using practical, research-backed frameworks. The Art of Opportunity offers a path toward new growth, providing the perspective and methods you need to make innovation happen. Written by a team of experts with both academic and industry experience — and a client roster composed of some of the world’s...
Wiley, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1119151586. Innovate your way toward growth using practical, research-backed frameworks. The Art of Opportunity offers a path toward new growth, providing the perspective and methods you need to make innovation happen. Written by a team of experts with both academic and industry experience — and a client roster composed of some of the world’s...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 408 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-052190-0. Engineering Innovation is an overview of the interconnected business and product development techniques needed to nurture the development of raw, emerging technologies into commercially viable products. This book relates Funding Strategies, Business Development, and Product Development to one another as an idea is refined to...
Wiley-ISTE, 2018. — 271 p. — (Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management). — ISBN: 978-1-119-56336-5. Throughout history, engineers have been defined as those who bring technological innovation to society. However, the concept of innovation and the role of the engineer are now changing as a result of globalization, the digital revolution, growing inequalities and environmental...
Pearson: Prentice Hall, 2005. — 263 p. — ISBN10: 0131438204 Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare this book, the authors thoroughly examined the record...
Wiley, 2010. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 0470685956; ISBN13: 978-0470685952. Today's most successful companies are Intelligent Companies that use the best available data to inform their decision making. This is called Evidence-Based Management and is one of the fastest growing business trends of our times. Intelligent Companies bring together tools such as Business Intelligence,...
Springer, 2009. — 205 p. The book offers an interesting blend of applied state-of-the-art studies of coevolutionary development of institutions, innovation diffusion and innovative entrepreneurship, not published anywhere else. It can firstly be classified as belonging to mainstream endogenous growth studies on the country level, and secondly, to mainstream evolutionary...
Belknap Press, 2010. – 736 p. – ISBN: 9780674034815 Pan Am, Gimbel’s, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland — all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than...
Springer – 2012, 465 p. ISBN: 3642217222 The book describes and analyses the new environment for innovation, it does this with an emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the field of practice-based innovation, coming up with guidelines for innovation policy measures needed in order to realise this. While it focuses on these policies it also takes into account multi-actor...
Springer, 2012. - 90 p. ISBN: 3642321496 Extreme poverty continues to afflict the world, and it requires urgent action. Social innovation can be the driving force to spark change and to find common ground for shared value creation, particularly when it is directed at low-income markets. Leading companies have recently developed innovative forms of social innovation by combining...
COTED WIRED, 2011. - 109 p. ISBN: 8890609404 Italian Gli italiani sono migliori, molto migliori del dibattito politico in corso e della quotidiana rappresentazione che ne fanno i media. Sono contrari a questo nucleare non per paura della tecnologia ma perché ritengono più intelligente - adesso - produrre energia con il sole e il vento. Non si tratta di una scelta emotiva o...
Springer, 2014. — 215 p. — ISBN: 3319043064, 9783319043067 This book describes the trends in digital innovation that are of most importance for businesses and explores the key challenges. The book is in three parts, the first of which focuses on developments in digital systems. Here, the ever-growing relevance of big data, cloud computing, and mobile services for business is...
Springer, 2017. — xxii, 173 p. Technological advancements and innovation is constantly evolving and growing at such a fast rate that everyone is required to stay abreast of these advancements and innovations. The paradigm change of Blockchain is not left out from this evolution. The technological concept behind the Blockchain is interestingly closely identical to that of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-42383-0. Innovation is a systemic phenomenon in which institutions, such as firms, government entities and public policy incentives, interact in complex ways. Targeting specific sectors of an economy in order to improve the competitiveness and capabilities of domestic firms, interventionist innovation policies can...
IGI Global, 2011. - 732 p. ISBN: 161350165X Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable...
Amsterdam University Press, 2008. — 368 p. In economics, business, and government policy, innovation policy requires the creation of new approaches based on insight in what happens in innovation processes, on the micro level of people, firms and interaction between them. In innovation policy it should also be recognized that innovation entails a whole range of activities beyond...
OECD, 06 June 2011, ISBN: 9789264113121, 9789264113138, 263 p., PDF The OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Russian Federation offers a comprehensive assessement of the innovation system of the Russian Federation, focusing on the role of government. It provides concrete recommendations on how to improve policies that affect innovation performance, including R&D policies. It also...
Paris: OECD Publishing, 2015. — 456 p. — ISBN: 2015978-92-64-22935-8. Today, the generation and use of huge volumes of data are redefining our “intelligence” capacity and our social and economic landscapes, spurring new industries, processes and products, and creating significant competitive advantages. In this sense, data-driven innovation (DDI) has become a key pillar of...
Kogan Page, 2021. — 273 p. — ISBN: 978 1 78966 543 7. With the continued success of fintech (financial technology) businesses around the world, financial services are becoming increasingly decentralized, personalized, and automated. This new textbook strikes a balance between academic depth and commercial relevance in examining the advantages and challenges of these changes...
Wiley-ISTE, 2017. — 180 p. — (Responsible Research and Innovation Set: Volume 7). — ISBN: 978-1-78630-103-1. Responsible Innovation. For some, this expression is only an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation, this expression...
Springer, 2019. - 361 p. - ISBN: 978-3-319-74881-8 This volume explores the ways in which knowledge and innovation impact business and economic sustainability, offering a wide-ranging and richly illustrated study of knowledge, innovation and sustainability of organizations from a dynamic capabilities perspective. In organizational theory, dynamic capability is defined as an...
Wiley-Scrivener, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1119242376. Innovation is the life blood of practically every organization. Innovation drives growth, development, and prosperity for many organizations and geographical areas. Sometimes, innovation thrives within a certain geographical location or in certain organizations that are known for their innovative approaches. This...
PublicAffairs, 2019. — 288 p. —ISBN: 978-1610398770. This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth. Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more...
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), 2009. — 63 p. Shift Entrepreneurship-based science? Has interaction between science and industry become more intensive? Industrial research as an object of research Commercialisation of science and its discontents Lands IT Land, BioLand, NanoLand: Exploring high concentrations of academic spin-offs Interviews Iinteractions Complex...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 211 p. — ISBN: 978-3030539443. This book explores how new and small ventures with comparatively fewer financial resources have been able to compete with big banks and financial institutions. It discusses entry, competition, and growth strategies based on new business models enacted by current FinTech ventures. An analysis of strategies for Fintech...
4th Estate, 2020. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780008334840. Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is an...
Springer, 2014. — 108 p. — ISBN: 3658054603 Shared value not only offers a new concept to face the current business environmental dynamics but it also responds to macro-economic challenges. The creation of more value than mere profits can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. Thus, it offers huge economic potential and presents a new challenge to corporate optimisation...
Edward Elgar Pub, 2016. — 608 p. — ISBN: 978-1784711849. Innovation underpins competitiveness, is crucial to addressing societal challenges, and its support has become a major public policy goal. But what really works in innovation policy, and why? This Handbook, compiled by leading experts in the field, is the first comprehensive guide to understanding the logic and effects of...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85793-794-0. This groundbreaking Handbook is a collection of the most recent research in innovation and creativity as it applies to marketing management. It uniquely combines the work of innovation and creativity scholars in the same book. Incorporating global research conducted by scholars based all over the world, this...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 172 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78811-181-2. This thought-provoking book introduces a financial economics perspective to the topic of eco-innovations and, more generally, sociotechnical transitions. It develops a model that illustrates how financial constraints can prevent the development of eco-innovations within companies and hinder the transition...
World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 863 p. — ISBN 978-981-3147-02-7. This multi-volume set covers a wide range of topics on innovation, which are all of great interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students. Two unique features of the volume are the large body of global evidence on innovation...
2nd edition. — Wiley, 2012. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 1118298101; ISBN13: 978-1118298107. A compendium of tools and techniques that every innovator needs The Innovator's Toolkit is an essential companion for every innovator, innovation team leader, operations manager, and corporate change agent who needs to drive organic growth. Written and presented in an easy-to-use reference...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 162 p. — ASIN B074KVBDCK. Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers. The author examines the gaps in the innovation process and identifies eight symptoms of...
Springer, 2017. — 138 p. — ISBN: 331957213X, 9783319572130. Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products. It argues that the two pursuits cannot be achieved through a bland compromise, or...
Edward Elgar / MPG Books Group, 2012. — 485 p. — (PRIME Series on Research and Innovation Policy in Europe ). — ISBN: 1849804443, 9781849804448, 9781845428488. This book explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and...
River Publishers, 2019. — 496 p. — (River Publishers Series in Automation, Control and Robotics). — ISBN: 978-87-7022-041-5. In today's competitive global environment, manufacturers are offered unprecedented opportunities to build hyper-efficient and highly flexible plants, towards meeting variable market demand, while at the same time supporting new production models such as...
Bloomberg Press, 2005. - 358 p. Drawing on the best technology writing that has appeared in The Economist, this collection is a thought-provokiing guide to where we are and where we are headed as we continue and implement the unprecendented technological innovation and challenges of our age. To understand the future of technology, start by looking at its past. From the...
Auerbach Publications, 2017. — 268 p. — ISBN10: 1498762794, ISBN13: 978-1498762793. While emerging technologies create massive opportunity, especially for investors and companies that seek more adaptable forms of economic growth than currently available, value is held inert by traditional approaches, patents, and other closed systems. Yet, open data, content, and information...
Springer, 2014. — 196 p. — ISBN: 9783658050931 Today’s profound environmental dynamics render it increasingly difficult for firms to sustain business models with returns above the industry average. Business model innovation aims to seize a new opportunity by crafting the right new business model. It offers firms a path back to high returns and profitable growth. However, risk...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008, ISBN: 978-1-57675-495-5, c.236 Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them. Readers learn to...
Idea Bite Press, 2016. — 202 p. — ISBN10: 0990576744; ISBN13: 978-0990576747. Why do so many innovation projects fail? What are the root causes of failure? How can they be avoided? Since 1991, Tony Ulwick has pioneered an innovation process that answers these questions. In 1999, Tony introduced Clayton Christensen to the idea that "people have underlying needs or processes in...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2005. — ISBN10: 0071408673; ISBN13: 978-0071408677. A world-renowned innovation guru explains practices that result in breakthrough innovations "Ulwick's outcome-driven programs bring discipline and predictability to the often random process of innovation." -Clayton Christensen For years, companies have accepted the underlying principles that define the...
World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 536 p. — ISBN: 978-981-3230-96-5. The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with increasing number of SMEs embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. This edited volume is a timely opportunity to gather research on OI in SMEs, to investigate how OI is managed and implemented to...
Routledge, 2016. — 279 p. — ISBN: 9780415676793, 9780415676809, 9781315723952 Innovation has revolutionized the world economy, yet it remains often misunderstood. This textbook seeks to elucidate the nature and impact of innovation for both undergraduate and graduate students. Innovation and Technology examines the impact of innovation on both economic theory and the real...
Main Criteria and Tools for Managers. — Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York, 2011.IX, 108 p. 36 illus., 6 illus. in color — ISBN: 978-0-85729-242-1, e-ISBN: 978-0-85729-363-3, DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-363-3. Offers a simple methodology to networks managers to enable them to evaluate the organizational efficiency and robustness of their network. Displays different...
Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Rick Fernandez, Brett Trusko. — CRC Press, 2019. — 460 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-482-25895-0. The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to...
Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Rick Fernandez, Brett Trusko. — CRC Press, 2019. — 460 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-482-25895-0. The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to...
InTech, 2012. - 396 p. The book "New Technologies - Trends, Innovations and Research" presents contributions made by researchers from the entire world and from some modern fields of technology, serving as a valuable tool for scientists, researchers, graduate students and professionals. Some practical applications in particular areas are presented, offering the capability to...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. — 283 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78643-114-1. At a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. Exciting and promising ideas seem to die out as often as they take flight,...
Wiley, 2014. — 296 p. — ISBN: 1118757734. Engineering Innovative Products: A Practical Experience is a pioneering book that will be of key use to senior undergraduate and graduate engineering students who are being encouraged to explore innovation and commercialization as part of their courses. The book will teach the essential skills of entrepreneurship and address the...
AMACOM, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0814438032; ISBN13: 978-0814438039. In a challenging economy filled with nimble competitors, no one can afford to stagnate. Yet, innovation is notoriously difficult. Only 1 in 100 new products are successful enough to cover development costs, and even fewer impact a company's growth trajectory. So how do you pinpoint the winning ideas that...
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