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Business Innovation A Case Study Approach

This book provides an understanding of innovation models and why they are important in the business context and considers sources of innovation and how to apply business frameworks using real-world examples of innovation-led businesses. After providing a solid background to the key concepts related to innovation models the book looks at why innovation takes place and where the sources of innovation lie from corporate research to crowd-sourced and government-funded initiatives. Innovation models across manufacturing services and government are explored as well as measuring innovation and the impact of design thinking and lean enterprise principles on innovation and sustainability-driven imperatives. Offering a truly comprehensive and global approach Business Innovation should be core or recommended reading for advanced undergraduate postgraduate MBA and Executive Education students studying Innovation Management Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. | Business Innovation A Case Study Approach

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New Models of Inclusive Innovation for Development

Inequality and innovation are both rising issues on the international development agenda. Their intersection is inclusive innovation; defined as the inclusion within some aspect of innovation of groups who are currently marginalised. This is a topic of increasing interest and activity. Large firms have been working to deliver innovative goods and services for base-of-the-pyramid consumers: the c. 3 billion who live on less than US$2 per day. Within poor communities an influx of new technology finance and capabilities has spurred more localised innovation. A variety of different models have been identified by which this activity is organised and implemented such as inclusive innovation clusters grassroots innovation frugal innovation innovation platforms and inclusive user-producer interactions. This book explores the operation conceptualisation and impact of these models and analyses the nature of inclusive innovation practice and research. It will be of interest to researchers policy-makers strategists and other practitioners associated with these new forms of innovation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development. | New Models of Inclusive Innovation for Development

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Capability Building and Global Innovation Networks

This book explores the dynamics of global innovation networks and their implications for development. Knowledge is often seen as the main determinant of economic growth competitiveness and employment. There is a strong causal interaction between capability building and the growth in demand for and supply of technical and organizational innovation. This complex of skills knowledge and innovation holds great potential benefit for development particularly in the context of developing countries. However despite evidence of the increasing importance of knowledge and innovation there has been relatively little research to understand the distribution and coordination of innovation and knowledge-intensive economic activities on a global scale – and what this might mean for economic development. Each chapter – though sharing an underlying conception of innovation systems innovation networks and their relation to capability-building and development – takes a different theoretical stance. The authors explore the emerging relationship between competence building and the structure of global innovation networks thus providing a valuable new perspective from which to critically assess their development potential. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development. | Capability Building and Global Innovation Networks

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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers project managers academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects the book addresses some key themes challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking organisational and individual identity storytelling and narration. The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as ‘innovation’ and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today. | Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

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Innovation and Planning

This practical book introduces readers to the essential business aspects of innovation and new product planning. The product planning process is discussed across two broad themes: product development and product management. Importantly the book emphasizes the 21st-century strategic and creative mindset necessary to drive business innovation activities in a concise yet comprehensive manner. The book delves into the front end of innovation and formal product development activities examining the topics of opportunity identification concept generation and evaluation technical development product design testing launch strategies product management life cycle management brand management and vital elements for international success. There are stand-alone notes that serve to apprise readers on related topics such as the use of agile product development methodologies the formation of business entities and recommended best practices for new product development. The book excels at providing relevant examples and applied tools that augment the concepts to offer valuable connections to real-world product planning efforts. This book is particularly useful as a guide to learning the fundamental concepts and strategies associated with innovation and new product planning. Among student audiences upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students are likely to benefit as the book embraces its position to serve as a primer on product development and management. | Innovation and Planning

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Bringing Forth Prosperity Capacity Innovation in Africa

Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance a policy framework is advanced proposing a strategic alliance between African countries -represented by NEPAD- and the multinational corporation with input from the NGO and couched upon an NEPAD-MNC-NGO cross-fertilizing integrative structure. Capacity innovation is the key to Africa's transformation: with the appropriate catalysts innovation and transformation are but a matter of time in gestation. The first of two major catalysts necessary to prompting this change so long sought by Africans came at the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa's Development. It is one of the most profound collaborations of African Heads of State. The second catalyst is proposed in this work in the form of the multinational corporation as change agent for the innovation process working in alliance with NEPAD as Africa's spokesperson for innovation. The policy framework for African capacity innovation is the material product along with discourse for redress of corruption and security policy narrative for protecting the assets of multinational corporations. Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa questions capital theory as a development construct and an appropriate platform upon which sustained capacity innovation in Africa may emerge; explores Africa's road to modernity in the context of selected development constructs and assesses capacity innovation from a top down-bottom up perspective purposely to serve as backdrop to the Africa-MNC strategic alliance framework; constructs country capacity ID to identify internal resources available to African countries to support capacity innovation; conceptualizes the Africa-MNC strategic alliance to convey a capacity innovation philosophy; articulates an African capacity innovation policy framework to guide the Alliance through a series of actions designed to prompt innovation activity and set the continent on a course to sustained transformation; and articulates a scheme to protect assets -human and physical- derived through the Africa-MNC strategic alliance. | Bringing Forth Prosperity Capacity Innovation in Africa

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Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level team-level and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities personality and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently firm-level influences such as planning learning strategy and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars researchers or graduate students interested in creativity innovation and organizational behavior.

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Innovation in Music Future Opportunities

Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production technology performance and business. Including contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners this volume provides crucial coverage on a range of topics from cybersecurity to accessible music technology performance techniques and the role of talent shows within music business. Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the music industry. | Innovation in Music Future Opportunities

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The Cultural Side of Innovation Adding Values

In most discussions about the knowledge-based economy innovation is associated or even equated with technology while culture’s influence is ignored. Innovation is however embedded in cultural and social contexts and neglecting these crucial contexts may impede an innovation’s diffusion—and eventual success. This book places culture at the center of discussions on innovation beginning with a comprehensive introduction to innovation’s various forms including the history sociology and economics of innovation. Insights from marketing and psychology are integrated into a complexity theory framework which are then utilized to evaluate case studies of organizations experiencing repeated innovation successes. The sometimes fraught relationship of firms to creativity is discussed and a new model for to calculating the creativity of an economy is presented. | The Cultural Side of Innovation Adding Values

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Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

Rooted in strategic management research Business Model Innovation explores the concepts tools and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation globalization and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy. Updated with all-new cases this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals of business model innovation explores the novel ways in which an organization can generate deliver and monetize benefits to customers. | Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

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Innovation Networks and Learning Regions?

Innovation Networks and Learning Regions? address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies. Developing the idea that innovation is the primary driving force behind economic change and growth the international range of contributors stress the importance of knowledge and information as the 'raw materials' of innovation. They examine the ways in which these elements may be acquired and linked through networks and demonstrate that there are empirical examples of innovative areas which do not have highly developed networks yet appear to be relatively successful in terms of local economic growth. In so doing they raise crucial questions about the ways in which regions or localities might be described as truly 'learning' areas and about the sustainability of future economic and quality of life success based on innovation and high-technology.

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Creativity for Innovation Management

Creativity for Innovation Management is a rigorous yet applied guide which illustrates what creativity is why it matters and how it can be developed at both individual and group levels. Unlike many technique-oriented books this book will combine theory and practice drawing on the latest research in psychology organizational behaviour innovation and entrepreneurship. This exciting new text outlines the necessary skills and competences for innovative and creative processes. It provides opportunities to explore these and also to develop them via a wide variety of activities linked to relevant tools and techniques as well as a range of case studies. By working through key competence areas at personal and then team levels students then have an opportunity to practice and enhance these skills. This will be complemented by online resources which will provide students with access to key tools and techniques plus activities to help develop their creativity. This textbook is ideal for students of innovation management and entrepreneurship as well as professionals in those industries that want to excel by developing and applying their own creativity at work.

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Medical Innovation Concepts Delivery and the Future of Healthcare

An essential text for innovators this accessible book explains how medical and healthcare professionals and students who are new to innovation in healthcare can best progress their innovation projects and how those interested in healthcare innovation can develop an improved understanding of novel treatments and developments. The book provides a clear framework for the innovation pathway describing step-by-step how projects are taken from concept to marketing and also includes a current assessment of emerging technologies that will influence medical innovation in the future. Key Features: Wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of the field from digital health and AI technologies through stem-cell applications and robotic surgery to specialty-specific innovations including those in cardiology public health and ophthalmology Illustrated with real-life examples of success and failure and what can be learned from these projects Reflects a greater emphasis on clinical innovation within health systems and its inclusion in undergraduate and postgraduate medical curriculae and medically related courses Supports national and international initiatives to encourage innovation in healthcare and maximize the novel ideas generated by university staff and students as well as practicing clinicians Ideal for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and medical practitioners and allied medical health professionals it will also be of interest to clinical innovators and healthcare businesses seeking to increase uptake of their products both in the UK and internationally. | Medical Innovation Concepts Delivery and the Future of Healthcare

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Innovation and Research in Education

Originally published in 1965 this title looks at programmed learning language laboratories curricular reform educational television team teaching – these are just some of the fashions that were going to change education in the following decade quite as much as the introduction of comprehensive schools. Would anyone ever know what their effects are? Not unless there was a great expansion of research. The author of this book states the need for a marriage of innovation and research. The social sciences could gain as much as education. Today it can be read in its historical context. | Innovation and Research in Education

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