Management of Technology: Growth Through Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 008044136X ISBN 13: 9780080441368

Publisher: Pergamon Press, 2002

Synopsis

This is a selection of papers representing the best thinking of leading researchers and practitioners in the field of management of technology. Based on a conference on growth through business innovation and entrepreneurship, it addresses a wide range of starting points for technology and innovation managers on how to develop and commercialize new technologies. The book is structured along three themes: entrepreneurship and venture creation; knowledge management; and multi-actor innovation. The first theme essentially deals with entrepreneurial energy, the conditions for its appearance and its success. It focuses mostly on entrepreneurs in innovation, start-ups and venturing activities. The second theme is composed of articles addressing various issues of knowledge and know-how management - the role that information and technologies play to facilitate and create new business opportunities. The third theme discusses the trend towards a multi-actor innovation process, according to which developments are carried out by several organizations, firms or otherwise, each contributing a piece of the innovation puzzle. The concentration is on three areas: the actual implementation of collaborative developments, involving various types of partners; supply and demand chains; and the interplay between technology and its societal context.

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"...this volume contains a large and diverse amount of empirical data, models and examples from different disciplines addressing the complex challenges and opportunities that the Internet as a technology, offers to society...To sum up, therefore, this is on the whole a good and interesting book, containing some solid papers, aimed at a diverse audience including, managers, policy planners, executives and academics, and one that I am likely to return to to complement other work on the challenges and opportunities of the ICT era"
--TECHNOVATION, Volume 26, Issue 7, July 2006

Synopsis

This is a selection of papers representing the best thinking of leading researchers and practitioners in the field of management of technology. Based on a conference on growth through business innovation and entrepreneurship, it addresses a wide range of starting points for technology and innovation managers on how to develop and commercialize new technologies. The book is structured along three themes: entrepreneurship and venture creation; knowledge management; and multi-actor innovation. The first theme essentially deals with entrepreneurial energy, the conditions for its appearance and its success. It focuses mostly on entrepreneurs in innovation, start-ups and venturing activities. The second theme is composed of articles addressing various issues of knowledge and know-how management - the role that information and technologies play to facilitate and create new business opportunities. The third theme discusses the trend towards a multi-actor innovation process, according to which developments are carried out by several organizations, firms or otherwise, each contributing a piece of the innovation puzzle.

The concentration is on three areas: the actual implementation of collaborative developments, involving various types of partners; supply and demand chains; and the interplay between technology and its societal context.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 008044136X
• ISBN 13: 9780080441368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 558
• Editor: Khalil Tarek, Von Zedtwitz Maximilian, Haour Georges, Lefebvre Louis A.