Exploring Innovation
Samenvatting
The third edition of Exploring Innovation offers an engaging new perspective on innovation. The book provides business students with a clear understanding of the nature of innovation and how it can be managed and fostered. Written in an accessible style, Exploring Innovation encourages students to challenge their pre-conceived ideas about innovation and to see it as a continuous, on-going process, by exploring some of the biggest developments in innovation. Lively discussions of key concepts are provide through numerous case studies, on a range of original products and services, bringing business theories to life.
The new edition has been fully revised and updated with a more intuitive structure to now feature:
-A greater emphasis on what innovation involves. -A new chapter on Value Capture. -Expanded coverage on Services and Process Innovations. -Two new chapters covering Global and Green trends in innovation. -8 new major case studies and more than 40 new mini-cases including Twitter, Angry Birds, Netflick, Google and Toyota.
Specificaties
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1Introduction
2Types of innovation
3Theories of innovation
PART 2: What Does Innovation Involve?
4Sources of innovation
5The process of innovation
6Value capture
7Intellectual property rights
PART 3: How Do You Manage Innovation?
8Innovation strategy
9Technological entrepreneurs
10Funding innovation
11Managing innovation
PART 4: Developments in Innovation
12Innovation offshoring
13Green innovation
14National innovation systems
References
Resources
Index

