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• Manufacturing company - from producing to knowledge-creating organization
• business diversification - from spin-off to trickle-up trajectory
• R&D activities - from dominant design to inter-industry competition
• technology development - from pipeline progression to demand articulation
• innovation pattern - from breakthrough to technology
• fusion societal diffusion - from technical to institutional revolution.
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This text examines how the technology strategies ofJapan's companies have enabled the country to sustain its competitive lead. It contains research on the critical topic of technological innovation and global competition.
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• 1. Innovation Ecosystem: Definitions.
• 2. Innovation Ecosystem and Innovation Processes.
• 3. Modeling: Combination of Three Ecosystems.
• 4. The Actors of the Innovation Ecosystem.
• 5. Coherence and Interdependencies.
• 6. The Iterative Network: Collaboration and Typology.
• 7. Asset and Knowledge Transfers: The Integrated Value Chain.
• 8. Ecosystems and Strategies.
• 9. Ecosystems and Value Creation.
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Ecosystems have been present in the fields of economics and management for decades, and in recent years they have experienced rapid development. However, there is still no consensus on the definition of an innovation ecosystem. Using concrete examples, The Innovation Ecosystem as a Source of Value Creation proposes a unique model in order to refine the understanding, functions, advantages and disadvantages of innovation ecosystems. This model is based on both the iterative network and integrated value chain. The network supports the collaboration between actors and favors asset transfers articulated around the innovation process. This book highlights the transfer processes at work in the innovation ecosystem, as well as the roles of the actors in this integrated value chain. It presents how value creation is articulated around knowledge to generate value shared by all of the actors in the innovation ecosystem.
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A new, comprehensive playbook for innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan In his seminal book The Three-Box Solution, Vijay Govindarajan offered an amazingly simple and highly effective framework for leading innovation: Execute the present core business at peak efficiency (Box 1) Avoid the inhibiting traps of past success (Box 2) Build a future day by day through breakthrough innovations (Box 3) Since the book's publication, companies across the globe have used the three-box framework to great success. Now, along with Manish Tangri, a corporate dealmaker at Intel, Govindarajan goes deeper into the most crucial box of all: creating the future. Together they provide a repeatable process for companies to create new breakthroughs--from ideation through incubation to scaling. Full of worksheets, exercises, tools, and examples, The Three-Box Solution Playbook is the guide you and your team need to drive innovation and growth--and continually revitalize your company.
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"What is innovation? How important is innovation in business? How can we use it to succeed? In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely due to innovation. Our parents were born into a world where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin or frozen food. Our great grandparents began life in a world with no light bulbs, cars, telephones, or airplanes." "This Very Short Introduction looks at what innovation is and why it can affect us so profoundly. It examines how it occurs, who stimulates it, how it is pursued, and what its outcomes are, both positive and negative. The book shows that innovation is hugely challenging and failure is common, yet it is essential to our social and economic progress." "Mark Dodgson and David Gann also consider the extent to which our understanding of innovation has developed over the past century and how it might be used to interpret the global economy we all face in the future

• Nobody Goes Truffle Hunting on the Highway The Innovator Stops You from Going around in Circles What Is at Stake for Companies with Contemporary Innovation? From the Notion of Innovation to Actually Making It Happen The Entrepreneur and the Scholar Innovation Was, Is, and Will Be The Hidden Side of the Concept of the Swatch The Great Watch Crisis of the Late 1970s, or When Managers Are No Longer Entrepreneurs Innovation versus the Crisis: The Empire Strikes Back with the Swatch The Swatch Project Did Not Simply Appear Out of the Blue The Innovative Design of the Swatch Conclusion C-K: A Truly Practical Theory of Breakthrough Innovation Reconciling Concept with Knowledge A First Approach of the Notion of Design The Theoretical Roots of the Design: Design versus Decision The Basic Notions of C-K Theory The Reasoning Behind the C-K Theory C-K in Action: Some Examples of C-K Cases Conclusion: The Origins of the Concept The Molecular Metaphor of Innovation: Gas, Liquid, Crystal The Innovator Blues The Origins and the Status of the Molecular Metaphor The Molecular Metaphor of the Mental States of Innovation The Mental State of Gas The Mental State of Liquid The Mental State of Crystal From a Dialogue of the Deaf to a Dialogue of the Mental States The Metaphor of the Matriarch How to Organize Breakthrough Innovation: Creaholic, an Innovation Smith Professional Inventors Unique Organizational Principles The Internal Organization of Creaholic The Matriarch as a Metaphor of the Management of Ambidexterity Multidisciplinary and Multifertilization Epilogue: Watches to be Watched: Connected Watches, or the Innovation War Raging on Your Wrist From a Coordinated World to a Connected World The Economic War on Your Wrist The Wrist: An Innovative Spot Watchmaking Seized by a Revolution Conclusion: Innovation at Work References Index.
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The Innovation Factory takes a fresh look at the fine art of breakthrough innovation. What makes it unique is that it brings together an experienced scholar and a serial entrepreneur who share the same passion for understanding the processes and theories needed to innovate over and over again. The book marries theory with practical examples focusing on the Concept-Knowledge (C-K) Theory developed by the prestigious school Mines ParisTech. For the first time, you will discover the unknown story of the Swatch watch told by Elmar Mock, the creative engineering force behind the Swatch. In this book, he passionately tells how he helped to create this breakthrough innovation that saved the Swiss watch industry in the 1980s. Gilles Garel, a professor of management, relates this tale of epic innovation to C-K theory and both convincingly argue that organizations can channel creativity to develop breakthrough innovations that disrupt markets. Innovation is not just a case of acquiring aptitude. It is also a question of attitude: Innovators strive to remain creative and active. The book provides an overview of the characteristics and essential strengths of the successful Innovation Factory, Creaholic, based in Switzerland. The example of Creaholic helps readers grasp what breakthrough innovation is truly all about. The book's use of vibrant metaphors helps readers easily digest the ideas and concepts presented. The book concludes with thoughts about future directions for the watch industry.
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• Disrupting the aged care business model / Erez Nusem, Cara Wrigley and Judy Matthews
• Mobility horizons : design in a disruptive market / Alex Garrett, Cara Wrigley, Nick Russell and Judy Matthews
• The changing role of the designer in new business models based around 3D printing technologies / Paola Pisano, Marco Pironti and Alison Rieple
• Designing for disruption : strategic business model innovation / Julian Jenkins and Tim Fife
• Disrupting conventions in development : from 'beneficiaries' to 'co-designers' / Ledia Andrawes, Anitha Moorthy and Adela McMurray
• The customer journey as a tool for business innovation and transformation / Judith Gloppen, Berit Lindquister and Hans-Peter Daae
• Researching the design innovation process in a multinational : an empathic approach to the application of the Delphi technique / Mersha Aftab and Robert Young
• The application of design as an enabler to the disruptive delivery of innovation through both the offshore and outsourcing of new product creation to India / Les Wynn
• Breaking the routines : artistic and design interventions as a tool for developing creativity in organizations / Marja Soila-Wadman and Lisbeth Svengren Holm
• The psycho-spatial dynamics of workplace designs for creative disruption / Laura H. Malinin, Alison Williams and Katharine Leigh
• The Role of emotion, experience and meaning : the comparative case of Apple and Samsung / Karla Straker and Cara Wrigley
• Design capabilities and business innovation / Marzia Mortati and Beatrice Villari
• In design we trust : dealing with the innovation imperative / Henning Berthold, Shiona Chillas and Barbara Townley.

Design is increasingly recognized as an important source of competitive advantage and an important element in innovation and new product development. In this third volume of the International Perspectives on Business Innovation and Disruption book series, editors Robert DeFillippi, Alison Rieple and Patrik Wikstrom focus on the role of design innovation in transforming industry practice. With an international cast of scholars and practitioners, this book examines how design innovation impacts the creation of new business models, innovative forms of service delivery, multinational innovation practices, the role of aesthetics and psycho-spatial dynamics in fostering innovation, and the types of design capabilities found in the most innovative businesses worldwide. Split into five sections, many chapters focus upon design thinking and conceptualize design as a user-centered, empathic and participative practice that allows diverse stakeholders to creatively contribute to business innovation. This instructive and insightful volume will be an essential resource for practitioners and managers across all organization types, both in the public and private sector, who wish to transform the way they do business, as well as for design, management and social science students and scholars.
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• Prologue
• 1. Josiah Wedgwood: The world's greatest entrepreneur
• 2. Joseph Schumpeter's gales of creative destruction
• 3. London's wobbly bridge: learning from failure
• 4. Stephanie Kwolek's new polymer: from labs to riches
• 5. Thomas Edison's organizational genius
• 6. A smarter planet?
• Further Reading.
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What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation - the ways ideas are made valuable - makes an important contribution to economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Not so long ago, there were no information technologies, commercial airlines, or television companies. Our parents were born into a world very different to today's, where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin or frozen food. When our grandparents were born there were no internal combustion engines, aeroplanes, cinemas, or radios. In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely in part due to innovation. This Very Short Introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects us so profoundly. It examines how it occurs, who stimulates it, how it is pursued, and what its outcomes are, both positive and negative. Innovation is hugely challenging and failure is common, yet it is essential to our social and economic progress. Mark Dodgson and David Gann consider the extent to which our understanding of innovation developed over the past century and how it might be used to interpret the global economy we all face in the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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This important book addresses how long term and large scale shifts from one socio-technical system to another come about, using insights from evolutionary economics, sociology of technology and innovation studies. These major changes involve not just technological changes, but also changes in markets, regulation, culture, industrial networks and infrastructure. The book develops a multi-level perspective, arguing that transitions take place through the alignment of multiple processes at three levels: niche, regime and landscape. This perspective is illustrated by detailed historical case studies: the transition from sailing ships to steamships, the transition from horse-and-carriage to automobiles and the transition from propeller-piston engine aircraft to turbojets. This book will be of great interest to researchers in innovation studies, evolutionary economics, sociology of technology and environmental studies. It will also be useful for policy makers involved in long-term sustainability and systems transitions issues.
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• Foreword - Professor Niels Roling, Wageningen Agricultural University
• 1: Introduction: Why innovation approaches matter
• 2: The Palaeontology of Innovation: Lessons on Success and Failure from the paddy fields of Asia The flash dryer in the Philippines The flatbed dryer in Vietnam What happens when a technology is first adopted Conclusions
• 3: Seeing Inside the Black Box: Modelling early adoption (with Darwin's help) Searching for a good mental map Learning selection - analogue to natural selection Opening up the black box Conclusions
• 4: Blowing in the Wind: How 'bottom-up' beat 'top-down' for the billion dollar wind turbine industry Early history The Danish experience The American experience Conclusions
• 5: Open and Closed: Linux versus Windows Linux: Open source innovation Windows NT: Closed source innovation Conclusion
• 6: Uncreative Accounting: Local Exchange Trading Systems A brief history of money Alternative currencies Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) Conclusions
• 7: Food for Thought: Aftermath of the Green Revolution The Green Revolution: Buying time Biotechnology: Big Science's technical fix? Participatory Plant Breeding: a sustainable solution? Conclusions
• 8: How to Catalyse Innovation: A practical guide to learning selection The learning selection approach to understanding and catalysing technological change Advantages of the learning selection approach Where does the learning selection approach work? The scope of learning selection How to launch a learning selection innovation process Intellectual property rights and learning selection References Index.
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Little is known about the social and human processes involved in the rapid technological change typical of our age. Why do some technologies successfully spread while others do not? What are the consequences of top-down diffusion strategies? What is the effect of the private sector? Should the public sector not play a significant role? What are the disadvantages of instant patents and corporate-controlled intellectual property rights? This book is an engrossing account of some of the disaster, and success, stories around technological development and diffusion from both industrial and developing countries. It tells the story of widely divergent technologies - agricultural appliances, wind turbines, Green Revolution high yielding seeds, the Linux computer operating system, and Local Economic Trading Systems. It constructs a highly significant 'how to do it' guide to innovation management that runs counter to many of the top-down, 'big is good', 'private sector is best' assumptions.
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Many of history's greatest growth markets were created by a disruptive technology which enabled a larger population of less-skilled people to do things in a more convenient way -- things previously done by expensive specialists in centralized settings. But these innovations are often met with resistance from organizations whose processes and values get in the way of succeeding. Prof. Christensen, Harvard Business School, shows that in order to create new business in emerging markets, you need appropriate management of technological innovation and the ability to find new markets for new technologies.

Following the revision of the Oslo Manual (1997) and the preparation of the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2), a number of OECD and NESTI observer countries have carried out (or are preparing) new innovation surveys. According to national policy needs, these new national innovation surveys may or may not fully follow the Oslo Manual methodology and/or the proposed CIS-2 questionnaire prepared by EUROSTAT in co-operation with national experts and the OECD.The following document is intended to provide the main characteristics of national innovation surveys carried out (or intended to be carried out) in 1997-99 in OECD non-CIS-2 participants and NESTI observer countries. After a summary description of all national innovation surveys (including CIS-2 participants), more detailed information is presented by country for non-CIS-2 participants. This basic information will be helpful in evaluating the extent to which internationally comparable information could be expected from ...