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Now in its seventh edition, Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change enables graduate and undergraduate students to develop the unique skill set and the foundational knowledge required to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development. This bestselling text has been fully updated with new data, new methods, and new concepts while still retaining its holistic approach the subject. The text provides an integrated, evidence-based methodology to innovation management that is supported by the latest academic research and the authors' extensive experience in real-world management practice.
Students are provided with an impressive range of learning tools--including numerous case studies, illustrative examples, discussions questions, and key information boxes--to help them explore the innovation process and its relation to the markets, technology, and the organization. "Research Notes" examine the latest evidence and topics in the field, while "Views from the Front Line" offer insights from practicing innovation managers and connect the covered material to actual experiences and challenges. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge and critical thinking skills to business model innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, service innovation, and many more current and emerging approaches and practices.
List of contents
About the Authors v
Preface to the Seventh Edition vi
How to Use This Book: Key Features viii
1 Innovation - What It Is and Why It Matters 1
2 Digital Is Different? 50
3 Innovation as a Core Business Process 70
4 Developing an Innovation Strategy 115
5 Building the Innovative Organization 164
6 Sources of Innovation 214
7 Search Strategies for Innovation 251
8 Innovation Networks 277
9 Dealing with Uncertainty 304
10 Creating New Products and Services 349
11 Exploiting Open Innovation and Collaboration 405
12 Promoting Entrepreneurship and New Ventures 448
13 Capturing the Business Value of Innovation 505
14 Creating Social Value 545
15 Capturing Learning from Innovation 571
Index I-1
Summary
Now in its seventh edition, Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change enables graduate and undergraduate students to develop the unique skill set and the foundational knowledge required to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development. This bestselling text has been fully updated with new data, new methods, and new concepts while still retaining its holistic approach the subject. The text provides an integrated, evidence-based methodology to innovation management that is supported by the latest academic research and the authors' extensive experience in real-world management practice.
Students are provided with an impressive range of learning tools--including numerous case studies, illustrative examples, discussions questions, and key information boxes--to help them explore the innovation process and its relation to the markets, technology, and the organization. "Research Notes" examine the latest evidence and topics in the field, while "Views from the Front Line" offer insights from practicing innovation managers and connect the covered material to actual experiences and challenges. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge and critical thinking skills to business model innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, service innovation, and many more current and emerging approaches and practices.
