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Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage innovation at the operational and strategic levels. Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations. The management of innovation is... Moreinherently interdisciplinary and multifunctional and Tidd, Bessant & Pavitt provide an integrative approach to the subject. Table of contents : Preface About the authors Part I Managing For Innovation · Key Issues in Innovation Management · Innovation as a Management Process Part II Taking A Strategic Approach · Developing the Framework for an Innovation Strategy · Positions: The National and Competitive Environment · Paths: Exploiting Technological Trajectories · Processes: Integration for Strategic Learning Part III Establishing Effective External Linkages · Learning from Markets · Learning Through Alliances Part IV Building Effective Implementation Mechanisms · Managing the Internal Processes · Learning Through Corporate Ventures Part V Creating The Innovative Organization · Building the Innovative Organization · Creating Innovative New Firms Part VI Assessing And Improving Innovation Management Performance · An Integrative Approach to Innovation Management References Index About Author : Joe Tidd is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at Imperial College Management School, University of London. He is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He has worked as policy adviser for the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and on projects for consultants Arthur D. Little, CP Gemini and McKinsey and firms such as BT, National Power and Nortel Networks. Joe Tidd has written three books and more than 60 papers on the management of technology and innovation and managing editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management. John Bessant is Professor Innovation Management at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University and was formerly Professor of Technology Management at the University of Brighton. He was originally a chemical engineer and has been active in research and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over twenty five years. He was responsible for the establishment of the Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM) in 1987 at the University of Brighton and was its Director until 2000. Professor Bessant has been a fellow of SPRU at the University of Sussex since 1983 and holds visiting appointments at a number of overseas universities. He has extensive consulting experience with both private enterprises and international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD (the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). He is the author of `12 books and many articles on the topic and has lectured widely around the world. The late Keith Pavitt was R.M. Phillips Professor of Science and Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex until his death in 2002. He studied engineering, industrial management, and economics at Cambridge and Harvard and then worked at the OECD in Paris. During more than 30 years at SPRU Keith Pavitt published widely on the management of technology, and science and technology policy and he also advised numerous bodies on policies for technical change. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reading, Strasbourg (Louis Pasteur), Padua, Nice, Aalborg, Lyon-Lumiere, Paris 13 and Paris-Dauphine, and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He was also a main editor of Research Policy
ISBN : 9788126509713
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