Management of Technology & Innovation Books

New and Published Books – Page 4

31. Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry

    The Importance of Using Others

    Edited by Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
32. Knowledge and Innovation

    A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

    By Helen Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
33. High-Technology Entrepreneurship

    By Ray Oakey

    With the global economy in a precarious position, nurturing new entrepreneurial high-technology firms is likely to comprise a key component of any policy to encourage economic growth, both in developed and developing countries. Recent high-technology ventures – such as retailing in the music...

    Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
34. Digital Virtual Consumption

    Edited by Mike Molesworth, Janice Denegri Knott

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses...

    Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
35. Innovating for Sustainability

    Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

    By Luca Berchicci

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
36. The Innovative Bureaucracy

    Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity

    By Alexander Styhre

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
37. Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

    Edited by Isabel Salavisa, Margarida Fontes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
38. Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation

    By John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
39. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

    Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

    Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

    Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
40. Management Development

    Perspectives from Research and Practice

    Edited by Rosemary Hill, Jim Stewart

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge on management development with the latest innovations in high quality research and practice in various parts of the globe, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge