1st Edition
The Innovation Odyssey Lessons from an Impossible Project
Part 1 The Odyssey of K-ZE
Chapter 1: The Long March of the Accessible Vehicle Concept for China
Chapter 2: Preliminary Project: Exploring the Unknown
Chapter 3: An Innovative Framework for a Cooperative Design
Chapter 4: An Agile Development in an Unprecedented Context
Chapter 5: A Project in a Perfect Storm
Chapter 6: The Phoenix
Conclusion of Part 1: Evaluating Innovation Projects
Part 2: Learning from Projects
Chapter 7: Societal Innovation and Administered Darwinism
Chapter 8: The Project as a Means of Strategic and Cultural Integration
Chapter 9: Global Innovation Strategies and Lineage Management
Chapter 10: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Capability in Large Companies
Conclusion of Part 2: Reenergizing a Large Firm
Conclusion
Afterword
Biography
Christophe Midler, Emeritus Research Director and Professor of the Management Research Center, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and member of the French Academy of Technologies. He is internationally recognized in the field of project and innovation management.
Marc Alochet is researcher at the Management Research Center, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. Previously, he was an engineer at Renault, where he held various functions and positions in product and process engineering.
Christophe de Charentenay is CEO of M@Air, is an expert in carbon-free mobility. He was, from 2017 to 2020 the president of eGT, the operator of the K-ZE project (dacia Spring).
