The International Handbook on Innovation.
Title:
The International Handbook on Innovation.
Author:
Shavinina, Larisa V.
ISBN:
9780080524849
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1201 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- The International Handbook on Innovation -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Preface -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Understanding Innovation: Introduction to Some Important Issues -- PART II: THE NATURE OF INNOVATION -- Chapter 1. The Neurophysiological Basis of Innovation -- Chapter 2. On the Nature of Individual Innovation -- Chapter 3. Models of Innovation -- Chapter 4. Evolutionary Models of Innovation and the Meno Problem -- Chapter 5. The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness: Its Implications for Understanding the Nature of Innovation -- Chapter 6. Innovation and Strategic Reflexivity: An Evolutionary Approach Applied to Services -- Chapter 7. The Nature and Dynamics of Discontinuous and Disruptive Innovations from a Learning and Knowledge Management Perspective -- Chapter 8. Profitable Product Innovation: The Critical Success Factors -- Chapter 9. Types of Innovations -- Chapter 10. Problem Generation and Innovation -- Chapter 11. The Role of Flexibility in Innovation -- Chapter 12. The Effect of Mood On Creativity in the Innovative Process -- Chapter 13. Case Studies of Innovation: Ordinary Thinking, Extraordinary Outcomes -- Chapter 14. Innovation and Evolution: Managing Tensions Within and Between the Domains of Theory and Practice -- Chapter 15. E-Creativity and E-Innovation -- PART III: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN INNOVATIVE ABILITY -- Chapter 1. The Art of Innovation: Polymaths and Universality of the Creative Process -- PART IV: DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN -- Chapter 1. Young Inventors -- Chapter 2. Exceptional Creativity Across the Life Span: The Emergence and Manifestation of Creative Genius -- Chapter 3. Innovations by the Frail Elderly -- PART V: ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATION -- Chapter 1. The Measurement of Innovativeness -- PART VI: DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION.
Chapter 1. Developing High Potentials for Innovation in Young People Through the Schoolwide Enrichment Model -- Chapter 2. Towards a Logic of Innovation -- Chapter 3. The Development of Innovative Ideas Through Creativity Training -- Chapter 4. Intuitive Tools for Innovative Thinking -- Chapter 5. Stimulating Innovation -- Chapter 6. Developing Innovative Ideas Through High Intellectual and Creative Educational Multimedia Technologies -- PART VII: INNOVATIONS IN DIFFERENT DOMAINS -- Chapter 1. Dimensions of Scientific Innovation -- Chapter 2. Do Radical Discoveries Require Ontological Shifts? -- Chapter 3. Understanding Scientific Innovation: The Case of Nobel Laureates -- Chapter 4. Innovation in the Social Sciences: Herbert A. Simon and the Birth of a Research Tradition -- Chapter 5. Poetic Innovation -- Chapter 6. Directions for Innovation in Music Education: Integrating Conceptions of Musical Giftedness into General Educational Practice and Enhancing Innovation on the Part of Musically Gifted Students -- Chapter 7. Determinants of Technological Innovation: Current Research Trends and Future Prospects -- Chapter 8. Innovation in Financial Services Infrastructure -- Chapter 9. Innovation in Integrated Electronics and Related Technologies: Experiences with Industrial-Sponsored Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Programs and Single Investigator Programs in a Research University -- PART VIII: BASIC APPROACHES TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF INNOVATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 1. The Barriers Approach to Innovation -- Chapter 2. Knowledge Management Processes and Work Group Innovation -- Chapter 3. Creativity and Innovation = Competitiveness? When, How, and Why -- Chapter 4. Innovation Tensions: Chaos, Structure, and Managed Chaos -- Chapter 5. Involvement in Innovation: The Role of Identity.
Chapter 6. Managers' Recognition of Employees' Creative Ideas: A Social-Cognitive Model -- Chapter 7. Venture Capital's Role in Innovation: Issues, Research and Stakeholder Interests -- PART IX: INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter 1. Encouraging Innovation in Small Firms Through Externally Generated Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Linking Knowledge, Networking and Innovation Processes: A Conceptual Model -- Chapter 3. Managing Innovation in Multitechnology Firms -- Chapter 4. Innovation Processes in Transnational Corporations -- Chapter 5. An Analysis of Research and Innovative Activities of Universities in the United States -- Chapter 6. Incubating and Networking Technology Commercialization Centers among Emerging, Developing, and Mature Technopoleis Worldwide -- Chapter 7. Science Parks: A Triumph of Hype over Experience? -- PART X: INNOVATION MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 1. Challenges in Innovation Management -- Chapter 2. Managing Technological Innovation in Business Organizations -- Chapter 3. Towards a Constructivist Approach of Technological Innovation Management -- Chapter 4. Promotors and Champions in Innovations: Development of a Research Paradigm -- PART XI: INNOVATION LEADERSHIP -- Chapter 1. Innovation and Leadership -- PART XII: INNOVATION AND MARKETING -- Chapter 1. Innovation and Market Research -- Chapter 2. Marketing and the Development of Innovative New Products -- PART XIII: INNOVATION AROUND THE WORLD: EXAMPLES OF COUNTRY EFFORTS, POLICIES, PRACTICES AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1. Innovation Process in Hungary -- Chapter 2. Innovation under Constraints: The Case of Singapore -- Chapter 3. Continuous Innovation in Japan: The Power of Tacit Knowledge -- Chapter 4. Innovation in Korea -- Chapter 5. Regional Innovations and the Economic Competitiveness in India -- Chapter 6. Innovation Process in Switzerland.
Chapter 7. Systems of Innovation and Competence Building Across Diversity: Learning from the Portuguese Path in the European Context -- Chapter 8. The Taiwan Innovation System -- Chapter 9. Innovation in the Upstream Oil and Gas Sector: A Strategic Sector of Canada's Economy -- Chapter 10. The National German Innovation System: Its Development in Different Governmental and Territorial Structures -- Chapter 11. Frankenstein Futures? German and British Biotechnology Compared -- PART XIV: INNOVATIONS OF THE FUTURE -- Chapter 1. Future Innovations in Science and Technology -- Chapter 2. The Future of Innovation Research -- PART XV: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 1. Research on Innovation at the Beginning of the 21st Century: What Do We Know About It? -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The International Handbook on Innovation is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of what innovation is, how it is measured, how it is developed, how it is managed, and how it affects individuals, companies, societies, and the world as a whole. Leading specialists from around the world, responsible for much of the current research in the field, analyze the multidisciplinary and multifaceted nature of innovation, its types and levels, its criteria, its development, its management, its specificity in various domains and contexts, and societal demands on it. They consider innovation from the viewpoints of psychology, management science, business, technology, sociology, philosophy, economics, history, education, art, and public policy. With contributions from over 90 distinguished authors covering 17 nations, readers will obtain expert insight into the latest research and future developments in the field of innovation. The Handbook will present many facets of innovation including its nature, its development, its measurement, its management, and its social, cultural, and historical context. The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook. The reader will develop an accurate sense of what spurs potentially creative and innovative people and companies toward their extraordinary achievements and exceptional performances. The handbook can be used as a reference source for those who would like information about a particular topic, or from cover to cover either as a sourcebook or as a textbook in a course dealing with innovation. Anyone interested in knowing the wide range of issues regarding innovation will want to read this handbook. Contributions from over 90 distinguished authors covering 17 nations International in scope, reflecting
global perspectives Essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of psychology, management science, business, technology, sociology, philosophy, economics, history, education art, and public policy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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