Technological Innovation: An Intellectual Capital Based View - Hardcover

Martín De Castro, Gregorio; Delgado Verde, Miriam; López Sáez, Pedro; Navas López, José Emilio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230230210 ISBN 13: 9780230230217

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Considering the uncertain, competitive and dynamic current environment, the capability to create and apply new knowledge represents one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage (Teece, 1998; Nonaka, 1991; Almeida, Song & Grant, 2002). Intellectual capital stocks, as well as their different manifestations play a critical role for effective development of the firm technological innovation (Teece, 1998; Subramaniam and Youndt, 2005).
 
We develop an improved and extended theoretical and empirical propositions about it can labeled An Intellectual Capital Based-View of Technological Innovation . The book is about the role of knowledge stocks or intellectual capital blocks (human, structural, and relational capital) on two technological innovation processes typologies (process/product). This method obtains evidence-driven models that depict the nature of innovation management, since it is shown the significant and positive influence of each intellectual capital components on product and process innovation.

About this title

Book Description:

Examines the influence of each one of intellectual capital components on product and process innovation

About the Author:

GREGORIO MARTÍN DE CASTRO is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He holds an expert Diploma in Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management from IUEE and Insead, France. He was a Fellow in at Harvard University and University of Manchester. He is author and co-author of several papers on the Resource-Based View, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.
 
MIRIAM DELGADO-VERDE is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She was a Fellow at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (Manchester Business School-University of Manchester, UK) from 2008 to 2009. She is author and co-author of several papers, books, and book chapters on the Resource-Based View, Intellectual Capital, Technological Innovation.
 
PEDRO LÓPEZ SÁEZ is Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He was a Fellow at Real Complutense de Madrid-Harvard University from 2004 to 2005. Also, he is author and co-author of several papers on the Resource-Based View, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.
 
JOSÉ EMILIO NAVAS LÓPEZ is Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is author and co-author of several books and papers on Technology Management, Strategy and Knowledge Management, like Processes of Knowledge Creation in Knowledge-Intensive Firms: Empirical Evidence from Boston s Route 128 and Spain , which was published in Technovation journal in 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230230210
• ISBN 13: 9780230230217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200