List of Tables | p. xii |
List of Figures | p. xiv |
Notes on Contributors | p. xv |
Management of Innovation - Are We Looking at the Right Things? | p. 1 |
Introduction: New Tendencies in Society | p. 1 |
Bibliography | p. 5 |
The Rise and Fall of Management of Innovation | p. 6 |
The management of innovation concept | p. 6 |
Historical development of the concept | p. 7 |
Biometric analysis | p. 10 |
Recent developments | p. 11 |
Concluding discussion | p. 16 |
Bibliography | p. 18 |
From R&D Management to Management of Innovation | p. 21 |
Introduction | p. 21 |
The evolution of R&D management over the past 40 years? | p. 22 |
Does the (re-)search behaviour of the innovation research community guide management of innovation? | p. 27 |
Confrontations: generations of R&D management, big issues, and intellectual upper bounds of the innovation science community | p. 30 |
Cleavage 1 | p. 30 |
Cleavage 2 | p. 30 |
Cleavage 3 | p. 30 |
Cleavage 4 | p. 32 |
To be forewarned is to be forearmed: some inferences | p. 34 |
Bibliography | p. 37 |
The Dynamics of Innovation and the Role of Companies, Institutions and Territories | p. 39 |
Introduction: Diffusion Processes in the Firms and in the Territory | p. 39 |
Bibliography | p. 45 |
Co-publishing and Innovation | p. 47 |
Introduction | p. 47 |
Schumpeter's legacy | p. 48 |
Where are key bioregional innovation systems, and with what specialization? | p. 55 |
Concluding remarks | p. 63 |
Acknowledgements | p. 65 |
Notes | p. 66 |
Bibliography | p. 66 |
Agglomeration or Cross-border ICT Cluster? | p. 69 |
Introduction | p. 69 |
Agglomeration or cluster? | p. 70 |
What constitutes ICT agglomerations and clusters? | p. 72 |
Is there a cluster or an ICT agglomeration in the Oresund region? | p. 74 |
Investigations of ICT clusters in the Oresund region | p. 74 |
The agglomeration of ICT in the Oresund region | p. 75 |
R&D and education in the ICT sector in the Oresund region | p. 77 |
R&D and the relationship between firms and public institutions within the ICT sector | p. 77 |
ICT education and cross-border integration in the Oresund region | p. 79 |
Policies for ICT cluster development and its implications for the Oresund region | p. 81 |
Policies for cluster development | p. 81 |
Policies for cross-border development in the Oresund region | p. 82 |
Conclusion | p. 84 |
Notes | p. 85 |
Bibliography | p. 86 |
Innovation and Firm Consumption | p. 89 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
Industrial consumption | p. 90 |
Industrial consumption: a framework | p. 92 |
Industrial consumption as a distributed process | p. 98 |
Consumption and innovation: the interlinked nature of goods and services | p. 100 |
New directions | p. 103 |
Acknowledgement | p. 105 |
Notes | p. 105 |
Bibliography | p. 105 |
Innovation and Diffusion of Site-specific Crop Management | p. 110 |
Introduction | p. 110 |
Innovation and precision farming | p. 111 |
Interdependences between different technologies | p. 112 |
Methodology | p. 114 |
Farm survey | p. 114 |
Interviews | p. 114 |
Interactive workshop | p. 115 |
Results | p. 116 |
Farm survey | p. 117 |
Findings from workshop and interviews | p. 119 |
Environmental impact | p. 120 |
Economy | p. 120 |
User requirements | p. 121 |
Advisory service | p. 121 |
Retailers and consumers | p. 122 |
Conclusions | p. 122 |
Bibliography | p. 123 |
Organization of Innovation | p. 125 |
Introduction: The Organizational or 'Soft' Aspects of Innovation | p. 125 |
Bibliography | p. 130 |
Do Network Structures Follow Innovation Strategy? | p. 131 |
Introduction | p. 131 |
Toward a research model | p. 134 |
An exploratory theoretical model | p. 134 |
Research design | p. 138 |
Data source | p. 138 |
Measurement of variables | p. 139 |
Model estimation issues | p. 140 |
Results | p. 141 |
Discussion and conclusions | p. 142 |
Note | p. 144 |
Bibliography | p. 144 |
Strategic Reflexivity as a Framework for Understanding Development in Modern Firms | p. 147 |
Introduction | p. 147 |
Development as the basis for theory | p. 148 |
Strategic reflexivity | p. 149 |
The two scripts of strategic reflexivity | p. 150 |
The outside-in script | p. 153 |
Pre-strategic reflections | p. 153 |
Movement | p. 155 |
Post-strategic reflection | p. 156 |
The inside-out script | p. 156 |
The organizational representation of the strategic reflexivity development process | p. 158 |
The dual development organization | p. 158 |
The roles of strategic reflexivity | p. 159 |
Innovation | p. 162 |
Uncertainties and risks in strategic reflexivity development | p. 163 |
Conclusion | p. 163 |
Bibliography | p. 164 |
Innovation as Institutional Change | p. 167 |
Introduction | p. 167 |
Mainstream thinking | p. 168 |
Complexity thinking | p. 169 |
Complexity and innovation management | p. 172 |
Institutions | p. 173 |
Routines | p. 174 |
Values | p. 174 |
Innovation as institutional change | p. 175 |
Conclusion | p. 177 |
Notes | p. 178 |
Bibliography | p. 179 |
Towards a Better Measurement of the Soft Side of Innovation | p. 181 |
Introduction | p. 181 |
Missing out on non-technological innovation is a missed opportunity | p. 181 |
Organization of this chapter | p. 182 |
Current and needed insights on the soft side of innovation | p. 183 |
An integrative approach on innovation: the 'soft-side' of innovation | p. 183 |
Current insights on non-technological aspects (NTA) of innovation | p. 183 |
Current insights on non-technological innovations (NTI) | p. 184 |
The Netherlands CIS3 1/2 survey and its experimental questions on non-technological innovations | p. 185 |
Towards an integrative-oriented approach | p. 185 |
The questions | p. 186 |
Results | p. 188 |
What have we learned thus far and some options for future analysis? | p. 195 |
What have we learned from this experiment so far? | p. 195 |
Some options for further analysis | p. 197 |
Some wider remarks on measuring the soft side of innovation | p. 197 |
Notes | p. 199 |
Bibliography | p. 200 |
Annex 1 | p. 201 |
Economics of Innovation | p. 203 |
Introduction: Information, Knowledge and Appropriability | p. 203 |
Notes | p. 206 |
Bibliography | p. 207 |
The Governance of Technological Knowledge | p. 208 |
Introduction | p. 208 |
Supply side transaction costs | p. 209 |
A new knowledge trade-off: to use or to sell | p. 213 |
The rationale | p. 213 |
Knowledge transaction costs | p. 215 |
A simple model | p. 219 |
Implications for knowledge exploitation strategies | p. 224 |
Conclusion | p. 226 |
Notes | p. 228 |
Bibliography | p. 228 |
Prizes as Incentives | p. 230 |
Introduction | p. 230 |
Prizes as incentives to R&D | p. 231 |
The comparative incentive effects of prizes | p. 231 |
The problem of contest design | p. 234 |
Three aviation contests | p. 235 |
Motorized flight | p. 235 |
Human-powered flight | p. 237 |
Space flight | p. 238 |
How important were prizes in stimulating innovation in the aviation industry? | p. 240 |
Concluding remarks | p. 243 |
Notes | p. 244 |
Bibliography | p. 245 |
Websites | p. 246 |
Patent Policies of Small Danish Firms in Three Industries | p. 248 |
Introduction | p. 248 |
Theoretical background | p. 249 |
Empirical data | p. 252 |
Results of the empirical study | p. 253 |
Telecommunications | p. 253 |
Software | p. 255 |
Biotechnology | p. 257 |
Concluding remarks | p. 259 |
Acknowledgements | p. 260 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Bibliography | p. 261 |
Index | p. 264 |
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