Management of Technology & Innovation Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

   Edited by Isabel Salavisa, Margarida Fontes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Digital Virtual Consumption

   Edited by Mike Molesworth, Janice Denegri Knott

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization

   Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

   By L. Lynne Kiesling

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Industrial Innovation in Japan

   Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi, Noboru Matsushima

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Innovative Bureaucracy

   Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Innovations and Institutions

   An Institutional Perspective on the Innovative Efforts of Banks and Insurance Companies

   By Patrick Vermeulen, Jorg Raab

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic and critical analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides a full and rich account of how new products are brought to market; considering both the successes and failures in equal measure. This book takes the meeting...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry

   The Importance of Using Others

   Edited by Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Knowledge and Innovation

   A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

   By Helen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

    Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

    Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

    Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge