Author:
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Keywords: innovation, works, policy, creating, investing, research
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 1998-02
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0262024462
ISBN-13: 9780262024464

"Technology infrastructure has become the foundation for the ’engine of economic growth’ for countries around the world. This study on science and technology policy should be a wake-up call for the United States, where we have taken technological superiority for granted for much too long." -- Mary Good, Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry, backed

Author: Genrich Altshuller
Publisher: Technical Innovation Ctr
Keywords: innovation, creativity, technical, triz, algorithm, systematic
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0964074044
ISBN-13: 9780964074040

A milestone in the development of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), this book is the result of over twenty years of research and analysis. Altshuller details TRIZ’s problem solving algorythm (ARIZ) that can produce innovation of the highest order. Saturated with profound thoughts, insights, and examples, this book is regarded by many as Altshuller’s magnum opus, his handbook for a creative and technological revolution.

Author: Peter Merrill
Publisher: ASQ Quality Pre
Keywords: innovation, culture, innovative, creating, generation, process
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2008-05-07
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 087389734X
ISBN-13: 9780873897341

Innovation is about creating the future...and making sure your organization is part of it. For successful innovation, an organization needs its people to be well connected, which is exactly what a highly-developed quality management system can do. This book shows that quality management and its associated efficiencies does not necessarily have to drive out the thinking time that is so critical to innovation. You can innovate and develop the products and services that the market needs tomorrow by following the two modes of operation described by noted author Peter Merrill: stay loose to create

Authors:Armelle Corre, Gerald Mischke,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: innovation, amp, management, new, game, approach
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387237941
ISBN-13: 9780387237947

Provides first time integrated approach to R and D-project, -pipeline and -department management from a micro-, meso- and macroscopic view. Derives 21 easy and ready to apply rules for a better design and a superior control of R and D without losinf sight of high scientific standards.

Author:
Publisher: Anthem Press
Keywords: innovation, anthem, canon, learning, series, interactive, systems, theory, national
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1843318660
ISBN-13: 9781843318668

�National Systems of Innovation� presents a new perspective on the dynamics of the national and the global economy. Its starting point is that the international competitiveness of nations is founded on innovation. Which role do different parts of the national system play in determining the long-term dynamics of the economy? What is happening to the coherence of national systems of innovation in an era characterised by far-reaching internationalisation and globalisation? These and other issues are addressed in this volume. Available for the first time in paperback, the book is an invaluable re

Authors:Goran Marklund, Nicholas S. Vonortas, Charles W. W
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: innovation, economy, global, national, imperative, stategies
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 184720192X
ISBN-13: 9781847201928

As a result of globalization, strategies for investments in innovation capabilities have gained considerably in importance, for businesses, research institutions and policymakers. Public policy has to provide conditions for investments in R&D and innovation that are internationally attractive and effective in stimulating innovation, economic growth and job creation. This book focuses on the changing roles and challenges of innovation and growth policy, and the strategies and measures that are critical in a globalizing world. It provides guidance for innovation policy strategy formulations and

Author: Helen Brow
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: innovation, studies, organization, technology, routledge, usa, comparative, study, knowledge, japan
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-11
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415416639
ISBN-13: 9780415416634

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 often misunderstood process of knowledge transfer. Arguing that partnership between public and private sector organizations can take many forms, some of which are very complicated Brown shows that ’partnership’ should not be prescribed as a panacea for the delivery of complex policy in ed