Business innovation Books

Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence applications play a crucial role in modern businesses across various industries. The Role of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Business examines key aspects of how digital technologies impact businesses, including AI-powered chatbots, self-service portals, and online customer support systems which can help enhance the overall customer experience. In addition, digital technologies enable businesses to collect and analyse vast amounts of data (big data analytics). This data provides valuable insights into customer behaviour, market trends, and operational performance, thereby helping businesses make informed decisions and personalise their offerings.Moreover, automation and digital tools help streamline processes, and reduces manual efforts and errors. For instance, project management software, CRM systems, and ERP solutions optimise workflows, leading to increased efficiency and productivity. Digital marketing channels such as social media, search engine optimization (SEO), and online advertising allow businesses to reach their target audience more effectively and at a lower cost compared to traditional methods. Personalised marketing campaigns based on data analysis further enhance customer engagement. Digital technologies have transformed the way businesses sell products and services. The book will help readers in understanding the role of artificial intelligence in promoting business and management success.Fulfilling a growing need for aligning business strategy and educational curriculums with the evolving skills required for business workplaces Technological Innovation and Sustainability for Business Competitive Advantage presents a thorough understanding of how business, education and technology can enable current and future leaders to contribute positively to the digital transformation currently in play across the globe.

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Book SynopsisEastern philosophy and Western management ideals offer a powerful set of wisdom on how to build and grow businesses. This can have lasting impact on employees, customers, financial performance, and society. The father of modern management – Peter F. Drucker – focused on how organizations can contribute to a functioning society. Confucius focused on how to build a functioning society, largely from a family and individual perspective. Despite these differing starting points, their collective work provides a remarkably consistent set of principles that can provide practical guidance for executives who want to both “win in the present” and create their own future. The purpose of this book is to help leaders and decision-makers successfully navigate their organizations through the stormy seas of the present, into the future. In the first section of the book, the authors demonstrate how executives can make five direction-setting ‘big choices’ for their firms. These five big choices are: defining the purpose of an organization, building a mission statement, setting an organization’s vision, crafting organizational values, and shaping the firm’s culture. In the second section, the authors tie these five choices to the foundational thinking of Drucker and Confucius. Here the concepts, principles, and real-world practice of Eastern and Western leadership are shown here to combine to compelling effect.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Developing an Organization’s Mission Chapter 2. Developing an Organization’s Vision Chapter 3. Developing an Organization’s Purpose Chapter 4. Developing an Organization’s Values Chapter 5. Developing an Organization’s Culture Chapter 6. Getting Started on the Journey: Mission, Vision, and Purpose Chapter 7. Getting Started on the Journey: Culture and Values Chapter 8. Two Sources of Wisdom for Market Shapers, Peter Drucker and Confucianism Chapter 9. Drucker Management Philosophy and Ten Principles Chapter 10. Confucianism and Ten Principles

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Book SynopsisWhile global challenges such as a future pandemics and global warming seem insurmountable, innovation and cumulative small changes can help towards managing such disruptive events. Innovation can encompass a new way of doing things, new products and services, and new solutions; in organizations where innovation can flourish, progress and resilience can be achieved. This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts – developing social responsibility and developing sustainability – both of which are interlinked and interdependent. Topics presented range from: mandatory CSR in the banking industry to the professional integration of displaced persons to knowledge for and about sustainability, and many more. The diversity of the chapters gift readers an interdisciplinary examination of innovation, social responsibility and sustainability. Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.Table of ContentsPart 1. Developing Social Responsibility Chapter 1. Towards A Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility for Banks in Challenging Institutional Contexts: A Case Study of Nigeria; Victor Ediagbonya Chapter 2. Factors Influencing Willingness-to-Repurchase Airline Services in Nigeria; Adetayo Olaniyi Adeniran, Ikpechukwu Njoku, and Mobolaji S. Stephens Chapter 3. Professional integration of displaced persons; Hajaina Ravoaja Chapter 4. Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in West Africa; Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju and Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega Chapter 5. Gender-Based Violence in North-West Nigeria; Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega and Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju Chapter 6. COVID-19 induced shift in CSR: An empirical investigation; Taral Pathak, Srushti Govilkar, and Ruchi Tewari Part 2. Developing Sustainability Chapter 7. Bioconversion of Mauritius Hemp hydrolysate into polyhydroxybutyrate biopolymer; Nausheen Jaffur, Pratima Jeetaha, and Gopalakrishnan Kumar Chapter 8. But what does sustainability mean? The groundwork for knowledge about sustainability and knowledge for sustainability; Florian Kragulj, Anna Katharina Grill, Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, and Arminda do Paço Chapter 9. How the UN SDGs have affected sustainability reporting activity of Spanish public universities?; Francisco Javier Andrades Peña, Domingo Martinez Martinez, and Manuel Larrán Jorge

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Book SynopsisThis book contains an Open Access chapter. Healthcare organizations today face widespread change as they confront varied grand challenges in uncertain environments. Leaders in healthcare require a comprehensive understanding of effective approaches to organizational change, yet the theoretical and practical landscape is evolving rapidly. Volume 22 of Advances in Health Care Management focuses on environmental uncertainty and the responsiveness of health care organizations, the mechanisms of change and how leaders within organizations frame and execute change, and investigates organizational preparedness and response in the face of acute crisis. The authors highlight the key ways in which organizations must orient toward, and build adaptive resilience to weather, an environment of persistent uncertainty and change.Table of ContentsSection 1. Persistent drivers of environmental uncertainty Chapter 1. Back to the Future: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Thrive in the Face of Persistent Environmental Uncertainty; Rachel Gifford, Arno van Raak, Mark Govers,and Daan Westra Chapter 2. Measure Twice, Change Once: Using Simulation to Support Change Management in Rural Healthcare Delivery; Clair Reynolds Kueny, Alex Price, and Casey Canfield Chapter 3. Examining Knowledge Management and the Culture Change Movement in Long-Term Care: A Study of High-Medicaid-Census Nursing Homes; Tory H. Hogan, Larry R. Hearld, Ganisher Davlyatov, Akbar Ghiasi, Jeff Szychowski, and Robert Wheech Maldonado Section 2. Mechanisms of change – how leaders within organizations frame and execute change Chapter 4. Towards a Theory of Organizational DNA: Routines, Principles, and Beliefs (RPBs) for Successful and Sustainable Organizational Change; Mark Govers, Rachel Gifford, Daan Westra, and Ingrid Mur-Veeman Chapter 5. Innovation Diffusion Across 13 Specialties and Associated Clinician Characteristics; Zhanna Novikov, Sara J. Singer, and Arnold Milstein OPEN ACCESS Chapter 6. Safe Surgery Checklist Implementation: Associations of Management Practice and Safety Culture Change; Maike Tietschert, Sophie Higgins, Alex Haynes, Raffaella Sadun, and Sara J. Singer Section 3. Organizational preparedness and response in the face of acute crisis Chapter 7. Hospital Finances During The First Two Years of The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Washington State Hospitals; Nathan W. Carroll, Shu-Fang Shih, Saleema A. Karim, and Shoou-Yih D. Lee Chapter 8. Sustaining Preparedness in Hospitals; Elveta D. Smith Section 4. Socio-political and demographic shifts require preparedness outside of acute crisis Chapter 9. The Co-production of Health Framework: Seeking Instructive Management Models and Theories; Anne M. Hewitt Chapter 10. Perceived Value of the Inclusion of Parent-to-Parent Support in Case Conferences and Care Planning for Children with Special Health Care Needs; Valerie A. Yeager, Jyotsna Gutta, Lisa Kutschera, and Sarah M Stelzner Chapter 11. Organizational and Policy Challenges and Priorities for Integrating Family Care Partners into the Health Care Team; Minakshi Raj

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Book SynopsisWith rapidly evolving emerging technologies, the business world is entering a phase of reform. Within times of change, transformative and disruptive environments as well as uncertain futures have created a difficult landscape for leaders within business.Exploring the landscape and providing valuable insight into the leadership among these challenging times, mean that business leaders can rely on Leading within Digital Worlds to provide them with a robust analysis of leadership practices and process to take them forward in the digital age.Pete Grindrod presents Leading within Digital Worlds in a way that will ensure this is an important text for business leaders in remaining at the forefront of the business world in these times of technological and digital evolution.The results of an in-depth study are presented in this title drawing on much of Pete’s expertise in leading in the digital world.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Way We Live NowChapter 2. Traits of LeadershipChapter 3. Nuts and BoltsChapter 4.Things to Think AboutChapter 5. In the End

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Book SynopsisDriven by European Union policy challenges, this cutting-edge book focuses upon the Regional Innovation Impact (RII) of universities, to analyse the socioeconomic impact that universities in Europe have on their hometowns, metropolitan areas and regions.By developing a conceptual model of RII, and by applying a mixed-method 'narrative with numbers' analytical framework, the case studies presented in this book describe the RII potential and performance of twenty research-active universities throughout Europe. The findings and lessons learned are framed within the context of RII-related policy challenges within the European Commission, and possible EC funding instruments for incentivising RII within universities. Key features include an analysis of EU policy instruments and assessment frameworks for regional leadership, human capital development and knowledge transfer.Insightful and original, the lessons provided within this book will be beneficial to European, national and regional policy makers interested in approaches to incentivise universities to contribute more to regional innovation systems. It will also be of interest to university leaders and administrators who wish to develop strategies to orient their organisations towards increasing their RII.Trade Review‘The approach proposed in this book offers the opportunity to grasp empirical elements to sustain innovation in regional economies. It provides a solid basis for the implementation of a system of evaluation (or self-evaluation) and monitoring of the university RII.’ -- Dave Mobhe Bokoko, Journal of Innovation Economics and Management‘Universities are key innovation actors, progressively acquiring new roles and engaging with their surrounding environments in ways that are increasingly complex. As it becomes more important to understand these roles, it becomes also more difficult to monitor them. This book develops a powerful method to assess the regional impact of universities and illustrates its application. It will become a necessary reference for all scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the multifaceted contributions that universities make to society.‘Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface PART I REGIONAL INNOVATION IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION 1. Universities in Europe and local engagement 2. RII analytical framework 3. The bigger picture PART II RII CASE STUDIES 4. Case studies of universities in Europe 5. Regional orientation, strategic development and knowledge infrastructure 6. Education and human resources development 7. Research, knowledge creation and technology transfer 8. Support to enterprise development and entrepreneurship education PART III TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION 9. Realities and complexities of RII analytics and assessment 10. Policy development and strategic implications 11. Final reflections PART IV APPENDICES: UNIVERSITY SELF-APPRAISAL REPORTS Index

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Book SynopsisThe Future of Creative Work provides a unique overview of the changing nature of creative work, examining how digital developments and the rise of intangible capital are causing an upheaval in the social institutions of work. It offers a profound insight into how this technological and social evolution will affect creative professions. Expert international contributors explore how robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, global digital platforms and autonomous systems will shape the design, production and consumption of culture. Taking a multidisciplinary approach incorporating creative industries studies, business, education and economics, the book analyses the technological drivers of disruption in the world of creative work. Chapters reveal how these changes will create new axes of power and inequality in the global sphere of creative work, predicting that conventional creative professions will be challenged and different species of creative work will evolve as a result. By charting the impact of digital and technological developments, The Future of Creative Work challenges traditional views of creative work, careers and education. This book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers undertaking creative industries studies. Its discussion of the application of creative careers across the economy will also be beneficial for scholars and practitioners interested in business, economics, and advertising and marketing studies.Trade Review'What do we know about the future of creative work? A lot more now, thanks to Greg Hearn's new book and the impressive list of contributors. This book, with fifteen chapters from a high quality, international authorship contributes to our knowledge through four sections: the evolution of creative work, digital disruption and creative work, changing contexts of creative work, and educating for the future. This book will be both a thought provoking and entertaining contribution for people interested in creative work and the teaching and researching in the area.' --Keith Townsend, Griffith University, Australia'This volume offers a multidisciplinary and global perspective on the many forms and functions of creative work and creative workers. Moreover, the work delves deeply into the technological innovations that are transforming creative work and the careers of creative workers. A key insight is how communication technologies are promoting spatially disaggregated collaborations amongst creative and non-creative work participants. These findings offer unique insights into how creative work practices may be applicable to a wider scope of employment disrupted by the global COVID pandemic.' --Robert DeFillippi, Suffolk University, US'The Future of Creative Work is a comprehensive exploration of issues that so many of us think about. The book looks into all the corners of creative work, old and new. In doing this, it considers changing technology, changing modes of work, and the production of social, cultural and economic value through creative work. 3D printers, robots and AI, teaching and learning in the arts like dance, the effects of casualisation and nomadism in the creative economy, and questions about whether creativity future-proofs students and workers are all important matters considered in the book. It is a perfect book for this time.' --David Rooney, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 The future of creative work: creativity and digital disruption 1 Greg Hearn PART I THE EVOLUTION OF CREATIVE WORK 2 The creative economy: the rise and risks of intangible capital and the future of creative work 14 Greg Hearn and Marion McCutcheon 3 The relationship between creative employment and local economies outside capital cities 34 Greg Hearn, Stuart Cunningham, Marion McCutcheon and Mark David Ryan 4 A taxonomic structural change perspective on the economic impact of robots and artificial intelligence on creative work 57 Ben Vermeulen, Andreas Pyka and Pier Paolo Saviotti PART II DIGITAL DISRUPTION AND CREATIVE WORK 5 New economic infrastructures for creative work 78 Ellie Rennie and Jason Potts 6 Automated journalism: expendable or supplementary for the future of journalistic work? 99 Aljosha Karim Schapals 7 Robotics and artificial intelligence in architecture: what skills will architects need in 2050? 108 Cori Stewart, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira and Jonathan Roberts 8 Museum curation in the digital age 123 Rui Oliveira Lopes PART III CHANGING CONTEXTS OF CREATIVE WORK 9 The role of casual creative environments for creative work in cities: implications for the future creative city 141 Ana Bilandzic, Onur Mengi and Greg Hearn 10 Digital nomadism: mobility, millennials and the future of work in the online gig economy 156 Beverly Yuen Thompson 11 Playing with TikTok: algorithmic culture and the future of creative work 172 Natalie Collie and Caroline Wilson-Barnao 12 Managing embedded creative work: the challenge of causal ambiguity 189 Cliff Bowman and Juani Swart PART IV EDUCATING FOR THE FUTURE OF CREATIVE WORK 13 Creativity 2.0: new approaches to creative economy work and education in the creative industries 212 Chris Bilton 14 When dancers learn to teach dance: how creatives acquire expertise in multiple domains to improve employability 229 Jose Hilario Pereira Rodrigues 15 Do creative skills future-proof your job? Creativity and the future of work in an age of exponential technological advancement 245 Ruth Bridgstock, Russell Tytler and Peta White Index 259

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Book SynopsisThis stimulating book proposes the concept of staging as a tool for planning and facilitating design and innovation activities. Drawing on a predominantly Scandinavian tradition of participatory design research and sociotechnical perspectives from actor-network theory, it discusses how staging can enable co-design, sustainable transitions and social and radical innovation.Expert researchers and practitioners present in-depth case studies on how staging can be used in practice, including co-design within the health sector, product development in industry, energy practices and urban development. Chapters also explore theoretical and conceptual developments, such as the possible spaces for staging, the role of material objects, travel and circulation of knowledge and the use of spatial and theatrical metaphors. Reflecting on how staging is practiced in a variety of settings, the book illustrates collaborative strategies that shape design and innovation processes.This book is critical reading for academics and students with an interest in public policy, knowledge management and organizational innovation. Providing actionable strategies based on participatory design, shaping technology and organizational theory, it will also be beneficial for design engineers, city planners and technology managers.Trade Review'The authors see designing - urban, systems, and engineering - as performance, an occasion for staging negotiation and exchange among all participants in the process. This metaphor nicely accommodates prototypes and material objects as intermediaries which are made, remade and deployed back and center stage. It validates the proactive work of the anthropologist/design researcher in framing, staging and directing the process, leading participants to act out different scenarios and engaging all with an interest in the design task. Unusual for a collection so varied in the objects of design it explores, the authors hold to the central theme; the result is a refreshing production that shows how designing can be made inclusive of the interests of users of all kinds and persuasions.' -- Louis Bucciarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'This book is a significant and original contribution to the field of design and innovation. Drawing on cases from across technology and product development, system transitions, the development of infrastructures and city life and bringing together influences from participatory design with literature from the fields of STS and practice theory, the book offers a coherent framework for conceptualizing actionable approaches to the staging and unfolding of innovation processes, addressing also the complexities inherent in the growing importance of sustainability and co-creation.' -- Thomas Binder, Design School Kolding, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: Preface xv PART I INTRODUCING STAGING 1 Staging collaborative design and innovation – an introduction 2 Jens Dorland and Dominique Vinck 2 Staging: from theory to action 20 Signe Pedersen, Jens Dorland and Christian Clausen PART II STAGING PARTICIPATORY CO-DESIGN WITH MULTIPLE ACTORS 3 Staging negotiation spaces as a means for co-designing an insulin service system in India 38 Signe Pedersen and Søsser Brodersen 4 Staging co-design within healthcare: lessons from practice 55 Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders 5 Circulating objects between frontstage and backstage: collectively identifying concerns and framing solution spaces 72 Signe Pedersen and Søsser Brodersen PART III STAGING CHANGES IN NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH DESIGN OF SPACES AND EVENTS 6 Staging the configuration of organizations for social innovation impacts 87 Jens Dorland 7 Staging participatory innovation as transition design 106 Christian Clausen and Wendy Gunn 8 Staging a circular economy journey 123 Rikke Dorothea Huulgaard, Eva Guldmann and Søren Kerndrup PART IV STAGING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 9 Staging strategic enactment of front-end innovation 137 Louise Brønnum and Christian Clausen 10 Staging referential alignment in industrial–academic collaboration 154 Charles Anthony Bates and Joakim Juhl 11 Staging with objects: translation from technology to product development 170 Charles Anthony Bates PART V STAGING EXPERIMENTATION AND LEARNING 12 Staging interventions in resource-intensive practices and related energy consumption levels 187 Charlotte Louise Jensen 13 Storytelling urban nature: situated intervention as environmental theatre 200 Ask Greve Johansen and Hanne Lindegaard 14 Staging urban design through experimentation 215 Birgitte Hoffmann and Peter Munthe-Kaas PART VI REFLECTIONS – HOW STAGING IS UNDERSTOOD AND USED 15 Taking the metaphor of theatre seriously: from staging a performance toward staging design and innovation 232 Dominique Vinck and Mylène Tanferri 16 Navigating with people and objects – strategic concerns 252 Yutaka Yoshinaka and Christian Clausen Index

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book specifically focuses on the leadership of innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare by providing a detailed step-by-step framework for effective leadership in the challenging and dynamic healthcare environment. Taking a fresh approach, it utilizes resources within healthcare organizations and the creative abilities of their people to provide a long-term solution to address key global issues, including the aging population, rising costs and long waiting lists, together with the challenges of staff recruitment and retention. Claudine Kearney offers in-depth insights into what is required to achieve success in the development of innovation. Chapters also demonstrate how to lead innovation, entrepreneurship and design thinking in healthcare as well as how to achieve results with a future oriented mindset. Visionary in its approach, the book examines both internal and external healthcare environment, addressing the key elements such as organizational strategy, culture and structure to overcome challenges. It also provides a thought-provoking analysis on the significant global challenges experienced within healthcare following the Covid-19 pandemic. Highlighting key learning points, this book will be an excellent resource for postgraduate students and scholars with a specific focus on medical and scientific innovations as well as those responsible for management within healthcare.Trade Review‘This book provides a thorough, scientific discussion of innovation and entrepreneurship, and then applies it in new and important ways to the healthcare industry. It will help both healthcare scholars and professionals to understand the ways in which the industry can and should be managed, to optimally deal with 21st century challenges.’ -- Killian J. McCarthy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘For anyone interested in engaging in change, leadership and creating value in health care, this book is a must read. Claudine Kearney provides a thoughtful, interesting focused innovative approach to a most relevant topic today how to implement innovative leadership and an organizational approach to better healthcare all over the world.’ -- Robert D. Hisrich, Kent State University, US‘This book distills today and tomorrow’s complex challenges into a practical decision-making framework that informs thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare. I am particularly impressed by the range of insights spanning strategy, leadership, team management, challenges facing women, and human capital. The coverage is pragmatic and comprehensive, helping the reader to recognize and avoid their own common biases, and takes them by the hand to make better decisions. I highly recommend this book for all health care professionals!’ -- Donald Bergh, University of Denver, US‘Caring for the health and wellbeing of all is fundamental to human society – from the new-born to the person dying. Responding with compassion, courage and creativity to this challenge is becoming more pressing as we face global pandemics, aging populations, patterns of multiple morbidities and huge shortages worldwide in health and social care staff. This book is crammed with wisdom and insight about how we create the conditions to unleash the creativity, innovation and compassion of all those who work in health and social care.’ -- Michael West, CBE, Lancaster University, UK‘Look no further than this book if you are interested in learning more about leading change and creating new value within the field of healthcare. Dr. Claudine Kearney provides thoughtful, expert guidance into a vital and timely topic – the criticality of innovative leadership and an entrepreneurial orientation to improve healthcare outcomes around the world.’ -- William Wales, University at Albany, SUNY, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I MEANING AND NATURE OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTHCARE 1. Understanding creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare PART II DEVELOPING INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTHCARE: A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE 2. Developing innovation in healthcare 3. Strategic perspective: integration of innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare 4. Corporate entrepreneurship, well-being, resilience and positive psychology in healthcare PART III LEADING INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DESIGN THINKING IN HEALTHCARE 5. Leadership and its impact on innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare 6. Innovation and entrepreneurship among individuals and teams in healthcare 7. Understanding and leading design thinking in healthcare PART IV MAKING IT ALL HAPPEN: A FUTURE-ORIENTED MINDSET 8. Women in leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare 9 Human capital and the future impact of innovation and entrepreneurship on key stakeholders 10. The future of innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare References Index

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Book SynopsisAutonomous systems are on the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, and they are slowly finding their business applications. Driven mostly by Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods (one of the most difficult, but also the most promising modern AI algorithms), autonomous systems help create self-learning and self-optimising systems, ranging from simple game-playing agents to robots able to efficiently act in completely new environments. Based on in-depth study of more than 100 projects, Andrzej Wodecki explores RL as a key component of modern digital technologies, its real-life applications to activities in a value chain and the ways in which it impacts different industries. Artificial Intelligence in Management will help project leaders, decision makers and investors evaluate new autonomous projects and will serve as an inspiring guide for future research.Trade Review‘This publication is a very useful guide for organization administrators who hope to optimize operation management with proper applications of AI. For readers who have already known AI and management science, and is trying to integrate AI into management for new strategies and modes, or who want to extend their knowledge of AI in management, this book must be an ideally enlightening resource and will serve as an inspiring guide for future studies.’ -- Ren Yuan, International Journal of Knowledge-Based OrganizationsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: From Intelligent Machines To Self-Driven Organizations 1. Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Landscape 2. The Impact Of Autonomous Systems On Technologies, Processes And Industry Sectors 3. Autonomous Systems In Value Generation 4. Prospects For The Future Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a coherent and multidisciplinary approach to digitalization, this Modern Guide aims to systematize how the digitalization process affects infrastructure-based industries, including telecommunications, transport, energy, water and postal services.This important book reviews the literature on how digital technologies can impact infrastructure design, construction and maintenance costs, with specific references for each industry. Contributors analyse how digitalization is disrupting traditional infrastructure managers in terms of capacity management and traffic flows as well as discussing key topics including data governance, data sharing, digital platforms and sector convergence.With special attention devoted to regulatory and governance challenges, this will be welcomed by researchers of network industries and digitalization. This will also be of special interest to academics and scholars interested in the digitalization process, data governance and infrastructure management.Trade Review‘Infrastructures are not digital born, but should become digital. The complexity and intertwinement between elements hinders easy progress. This book is a must-read fore leaders in which the challenges are framed and insight is given into how to move forward.‘ -- Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Digitalizing infrastructure: active management for smarter networks 1 Juan Montero and Matthias Finger 2 Digitalization technologies: the evolution of smart networks 43 Günter Knieps 3 Digitalizing telecommunications: innovation, complexity and diversity in the internet ecosystem 59 Volker Stocker and Günter Knieps 4 Digitalization in road projects: toward a more integrated mobility supply 92 Carlos Oliveira Cruz and Joaquim Miranda Sarmento 5 Digitalizing maritime transport: digital innovation as a catalyzer of sustainable transformation 123 Anastasia Tsvetkova, Magnus Gustafsson and Kim Wikström 6 Digitalizing railways: the platform dilemma 149 Juan Montero 7 Digitalizing aviation infrastructure: the role of technology in overcoming fragmentation 172 Iván László Arnold and Lorenzo Casullo 8 Digitalization in the postal and delivery sector: between electronic substitution of letter mail and thriving e-commerce 198 Christian Jaag 9 Digitalization of the electricity infrastructure: a key enabler for the decarbonization and decentralization of the power sector 217 Nicolò Rossetto and Valerie Reif 10 Digitalization in the drinking water sector: towards smart water supply management 266 Brenda Espinosa Apráez 11 Digitalization, efficiency and convergence 289 Matthias Finger and Juan Montero Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship focuses on theories, policies, practices, and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It examines when, where, how, and why AI triggers, catalyzes, and accelerates the development, exploration, exploitation, and invention feeding into entrepreneurial actions that result in innovation success.Individual chapters explore the factors that shape and drive innovation and entrepreneurship, including modalities (such as the Internet of Things (IoT)), challenges (such as privacy and safety concerns), and opportunities (such as augmenting the efficacy frontier of technological solutions enabled by AI).This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of AI, technology, and innovation and entrepreneurship for academics, policy makers, practitioners, and students.Trade Review‘The Handbook is an extremely valuable resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in Science, Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, and their impact on Industry, Labor, Democracy, and Education. It can also supplement graduate courses in Emerging Technologies, IS/IT Strategies, New Technologies, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, New Ventures Financing, and Entrepreneurship.’ -- Leigh Wang, International Journal of Data ScienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 Elias G. Carayannis and Evangelos Grigoroudis PART I AI FOR BUSINESS 1 Scientific mapping of artificial intelligence as an emerging field of knowledge 8 Iván Manuel De la Vega Hernández, Angel Serrano Urdaneta and Oscar Schiappa-Pietra 2 An Odyssey of ideas about A.I., innovation and entrepreneur(ship) 29 Phillip Harvard 3 The future of business: artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning 46 Christos Lemonakis and Constantin Zopounidis 4 Conversations with French innovative entrepreneurs about A.I. 55 Phillip Harvard PART II DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 5 Digital transformation and digital maturity models: a blueprint strategic decision-making framework 77 Dimitrios Mitroulis and Fotis Kitsios 6 AI and innovation design for new product and service development in digital ecosystems 88 Rossana Piccolo, Veronica Scuotto, Armando Papa, Marco Pironti and Manlio Del Giudice 7 Explainability and the fourth AI revolution 102 Loizos Michael 8 Energy management 4.0 121 Vangelis Marinakis, Haris Doukas and John Psarras PART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP 9 Digital innovation and entrepreneurship in open data ecosystems: stakeholder perspectives and challenges 136 Fotis Kitsios and Maria Kamariotou 10 Cognitive agility for improved understanding and self-governance: a human-centric AI enabler 152 Benjamin James Knox, Stefan Sütterlin and Ricardo Lugo 11 Artificial intelligence in the energy sector 173 Alina Cherepovitsyna 12 The cultural world of high-tech startups 188 Giovanni Baldassarri and Piero Formica PART IV DIGITAL BUSINESS MODELS AND INDUSTRY 4.0 13 The value creation of artificial intelligence: business models based on the Internet of Things (IoT) 206 Sakshi Aggarwal and Stavros Sindakis 14 Implications of blockchain technology in Industry 4.0 218 Georgios Spathoulas and Sokratis Katsikas 15 Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies: exploring opportunities through smart specialisation 237 Ruslan Rakhmatullin and Fatime Barbara Hegyi PART V CYBER SECURITY 16 Financial analysis and management of cyber risk 255 Efstratios Livanis, Michalis Doumpos and Constantin Zopounidis 17 The future of cyber risk management: AI and DLT for automated cyber risk modelling, decision making, and risk transfer 272 Pankaj Pandey and Sokratis Katsikas PART VI SMART CITIES 18 Transformation of smart city public services through AI and big data analytics: towards universal cross-sector solutions 292 Anastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi and Nicos Komninos 19 The notion of interoperability in smart cities: a system of systems approach 308 Pantelis Sotirelis, Theodora Valvi, Evangelos Grigoroudis and Elias G. Carayannis 20 Landing the scientific helicopter to explore in-depth some best practices in smart city innovation ecosystems 318 Luís Farinha, João M. Lopes and João J. Ferreira PART VII SOCIETY AND THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 21 Evaluating citizen sensing applications: How simulation of human mobility can contribute to the search of missing children 333 Michalitsi-Psarrou Ariadni, Kanellou Eleni, Ntanos Christos and Askounis Dimitris 22 Career options and necessary technical skills in AI 350 Krassadaki Evangelia and Matsatsinis Nikolaos 23 The impact of AI on expert labour and professions: a neo-traitist analysis of project management 367 Ian Stewart and Kun Wang PART VIII AI AND DEMOCRACY 24 From Industry 4.0 to Democracy 5.0 383 David F.J. Campbell and Elias G. Carayannis 25 Democratizing AI: from theory to practice 402 Paul D. Clough and Jahna Otterbacher 26 Digital transformation of democracy and politics: sustainable development as a crucial dimension for conceptualization and measurement of democracy and quality of democracy 420 David F.J. Campbell and Elias G. Carayannis Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems provides a comprehensive overview of current research and industrial applications as well as suggestions for future developments. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the Handbook includes rigorously researched contributions from over 80 global expert authors from a variety of areas including administration and management, economics, computer science, industrial engineering, and media and communication.Chapters analyze the core areas of digital business ecosystems: strategies, platforms, entrepreneurship, business models, governance, data and technologies as well as sustainability and societal issues. The Handbook also explores a wealth of industry applications. It is the most comprehensive compendium on digital business ecosystems and a fascinating resource.Scholars, students and practitioners from all areas of business administration and management, economics, computer science, industrial engineering, and media and communication interested in digital transformation and digital business ecosystems will find this Handbook invaluable. It is also exemplary for practitioners in manufacturing and logistics, media industries, the health sector, and other service sectors who are seeking solutions to practical issues regarding digital business ecosystems.Trade Review‘The Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems approaches the theory and practice from an interdisciplinary and system perspective. The Handbook presents a body of knowledge from international scholars and practitioners, sharing their research, experiences, and latest thinking related to Digital Business Ecosystem implementation. The authors capture the scope of the technological, business, economic, social, and political factors that influence the development of Digital Business Ecosystem and provides guidance researchers, practitioners, and those embarking on a career in advancing the diffusion of digital technologies in business systems.' -- Gerard H. Gaynor, 3M Director of Engineering (Retired), US‘The digital business ecosystem is a fundamentally new context for strategising, managing and organising, one that transcends traditional industry structures – and many established theories of management and organisation. This Handbook is an invaluable guide to this emerging landscape, not simply capturing developments but exploring their implications from a rich diversity of perspectives.’ -- Lucy Kueng, University of Oxford, UK‘Digital business ecosystems revolutionize the practice and theory of value creation in manufacturing, services and supply chains. This Handbook is a very timely and comprehensively designed source of an utmost importance. It comprises both conceptual and technological views. Being edited and written by the leading experts in the field, the Handbook is an invaluable source for both introductory and advanced reading.’ -- Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems: Strategies, Platforms, Technologies, Governance and Societal Challenges 1 Sabine Baumann PART I STRATEGIES AND PERSPECTIVES 2 Networks, platforms, and digital business ecosystems: mapping the development of a field 11 Sabine Baumann and Marcel Leerhoff 3 Strategies for bridging traditional and digital ecosystems 25 David R. King 4 Disentangling the importance of digital platforms and absorptive capacity in digital business ecosystems 40 Antonio Crupi, Nicola Del Sarto, Alberto Di Minin and Martin F. Kenney 5 Digital business ecosystems and dynamic capabilities 50 Päivi Maijanen 6 Dealing with strategic tensions in digital business ecosystems 63 Sabine Reisinger and Johannes M. Lehner 7 Organizations as ecosystems: the case of television production 80 Gillian Doyle PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP 8 Navigating digital waters: entrepreneurial ambiguities and the triad of purpose in digital business modeling 94 Stephanie Birkner and Martina Weifenbach 9 The relevance of entrepreneurship ecosystems for start-up success: a venture capital perspective 109 Nina Schumacher 10 Value creation through start-up integration 126 Christian Horneber 11 Female entrepreneurs’ innovativeness in digital business ecosystems 143 Ngozichukwuka M. Eneh Ojo, Oluwasoye P. Mafimisebi, and Felix Arndt PART III VALUE CREATION AND BUSINESS MODELS 12 Design knowledge for digital business ecosystems: towards design principles for digital engagement platforms 161 Simon Michalke, Lisa Lohrenz, Dominik Siemon, Christoph Lattemann, and Susanne Robra-Bissantz 13 Digital platforms in the industrial sphere: value creation logics and platform types 177 Philipp Mosch and Robert Obermaier 14 Customer roles in digital business ecosystems: different forms of customer contribution in value creation 194 Karolina Bähr 15 Digital platforms and trading companies: the evolution of traditional business ecosystems into integrated digital business ecosystems 212 Reinhard Schütte and Tobias Wulfert 16 The digital consulting ecosystem business model 232 Volker Nissen PART IV GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT 17 The role of location for non-focal firms in emerging digital business ecosystems: relevance of agglomeration factors in the German XR industry 250 Christian Zabel and Verena Telkmann 18 A digital business ecosystem maturity model for personal service firms 269 Ricardo Guerrero, Christoph Lattemann, Simon Michalke, and Dominik Siemon 19 Business ecosystems in digital journalism: cross-border collaborative investigations as a novel organizational form 292 Christopher Buschow and Maike Suhr 20 Improved decisions for digitalization projects in digital business ecosystems 307 Vinzenz Jeglinsky and Herwig Winkler 21 Meta-study of success-related factors of SaaS providers based on a cloud computing ecosystem perspective 327 Sebastian Floerecke and Franz Lehner PART V DATA AND TECHNOLOGIES 22 Data (r)evolution: the economics of algorithmic search and recommender services 349 Oliver Budzinski, Sophia Gaenssle, and Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke 23 Blockchain technology in the supply chain: learning from emerging ecosystems and industry consortia 367 Wafaa A.H. Ahmed and Bart L. MacCarthy 24 Blockchain-based supply chain architecture adapted to digital business ecosystems 387 Yu Cui and Prakash J. Singh 25 Blockchain ecosystems in the creative industries: big dreams for micro-payments 405 Ivana Kostovska 26 Artificial intelligence meets onto-epistemologies: distinctive sociomaterial perspectives for organizational research at the intersection of digital business ecosystems and robotics 424 W.G. Will Zhao and Yimin Yang PART VI SOCIETAL CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABILITY 27 Having a platform to stand on: examining modern challenges faced by workers in platform-facilitated multi-sided markets 439 Traci M. Bricka and Amber N. Schroeder 28 Better data, better business, better lives: towards a symbiotic reporting framework for sustainable digital business ecosystems 457 Patrick Peter and Will Ritzrau 29 Conceptualizing smart-circular product-service ecosystems for the photovoltaic power industry 475 Verena Luisa Aufderheide, Laura Montag, and Marion Steven 30 The digital business ecosystem sustainability cube: an instrument enabling systematic collaboration decisions 492 Timo Klünder and Marion Steven 31 Big data analytics for developing sustainable capabilities of digital business ecosystems 510 Raissa Pershina PART VII INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES 32 Digital business ecosystems: a comparison of different industries 530 Franziska Götz, Christoph Buck, Michael Rosemann, and Reinhard Meckl 33 Doing digital news: a comparison of three business models from an ecosystems perspective 549 Cindy Price Schultz 34 Digital business ecosystems in the media: VR technology implementation models 564 Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska and Krzysztof Sokół 35 The digital innovation ecosystem of eSports: a structural perspective 582 Katharina Hölzle, Oliver Kullik, Robert Rose, and Matthias Teichert 36 Value co-creation in eSports from a service ecosystem perspective 596 Reinhard E. Kunz and Alexander Roth 37 Entrepreneurial responses to the coronavirus pandemic: digitization of the US restaurant business 614 Geoffrey M. Graybeal and Benjamin Lawrence 38 Driving automation: an evolving digital business ecosystem tale 629 Samina Husain and Ana Trigo 39 Case study of the customer acceptance of Personal Data Trust Bank in Japan: a questionnaire survey 646 Masaharu Tsujimoto and Soichiro Tanaka 40 Potentials of digital business ecosystems in the healthcare market 661 Franziska Götz, Caroline Reelitz, Christoph Buck, Torsten Eymann, and Reinhard Meckl 41 Digital twins in real estate: driving value throughout the building life cycle 679 Adrian Toschka 42 Developing big data analytics capability in a focal firm of a digital business ecosystem: the case of the Norwegian swine breeding industry 696 Victoria Konovalenko Slettli 43 Evolving internal digital business ecosystems for order fulfillment 713 Julia Feldt and Henning Kontny 44 Digital ecosystems in manufacturing: emerging models for Industry 4.0 726 Giovanna Culot Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive classification of the analytical approaches to the social within the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship studies, this book showcases a wide variety of perspectives and a collection of theoretical analysis tackling social complexity. The editors bring together contributors who mirror the heterogeneity present in the innovation and entrepreneurship fields, aiming to spark a discussion on the pluralist and critical nature of the social dimension within research, and to examine societal transformation processes and their attending multifaceted issues. Exploring how the social is analytically understood in innovation and entrepreneurship studies, the book proposes a non-exhaustive spectrum ranging from implicit assumption to explicit conceptualization in defining methodological foundations. Discussing the social and methodological challenges involved in the integration of social dimensions, this book will be a crucial companion for innovation and entrepreneurship scholars and students. This book is also a must-read for policy-makers and practitioners involved in societal transformation processes.Trade Review‘If you want to be inspired by novel ideas, written by the next generation of innovation and entrepreneurships scholars, coming out of the Norwegian Research School in Innovation, then this is the book for you. It focuses on the SOCIAL in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studies, and the book’s 12 chapters are organised in three sections representing different approaches. It covers topics from entrepreneurial team formation and the theory of imprinting, diversity and innovation to responsible research and innovation in smart specialisation strategies. This is an engaging and timely book that offers key insights into important aspects of contemporary innovation and entrepreneurship studies. It should be a first choice for reading lists of master students in innovation and entrepreneurship studies as well as for others who want to be informed by fresh ideas of young scholars.’ -- Björn Asheim, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface x 1 Introduction to Rethinking the Social in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studies 1 Beniamino Callegari, Bisrat A. Misganaw and Stefania Sardo PART I THE CONTEXTUAL APPROACH 2 Entrepreneurial team formation, task allocation in new ventures and the theory of imprinting 26 Bisrat A. Misganaw 3 Exploring the social dimension of regional industrial restructuring 43 Jan Ole Rypestøl 4 Collective resources in entrepreneurship: a reconceptualisation of resource mobilisation 67 Karin Wigger and Thomas Lauvås 5 Innovation and adaptation strategies during the front-end phase of an industry downturn 89 Jakoba Sraml Gonzalez 6 “Is that my problem?” A study of motivation for knowledge sharing 113 Stian Bragtvedt PART II THE IDENTIFICATION APPROACH 7 Playing around with the ‘rules of the game’: social entrepreneurs navigating the public sector terrain in pursuit of collaboration 133 Mikhail Kosmynin 8 Integrating responsible research and innovation into smart specialization: a question-machine approach 152 Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen, Are Jensen and Carlos Álvarez Pereira 9 Making a thousand diverse flowers bloom: driving innovation through inclusion of diversity in organisations 174 Marte C.W. Solheim PART III THE ESSENTIALIST APPROACH 10 Schumpeter’s social ontology: before and beyond pure economics 191 Beniamino Callegari 11 The naturalized disharmony of a socio-technical system: understanding safety in the oil and gas drilling industry 210 Stefania Sardo 12 Interactions in innovation processes of medical devices: systemic and network perspectives 234 Olga Mikhailova Index

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Book SynopsisDigital transformation continues to accelerate change in all aspects of modern life. This book examines when, where, how, and why artificial intelligence and digital change can boost innovation and transform the economy, society and democracy. It provides a holistic approach to the promotion of the knowledge economy, knowledge society and knowledge democracy.The book is developed based on the Cyber-D4 nexus, which is a conceptual framework of Cyber-Defense, Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Diplomacy, and it adopts a Quadruple/Quintuple Innovation Helix (Q2IH) approach. This nexus ties new national and industrial cyber strategies, including business strategies for smart cities and the Internet of Things, with the local, national, regional, and global security and economic objectives.Academics, policy makers, practitioners, researchers and students in combined fields of science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, digital transformation, artificial intelligence and the future of industry will appreciate the lens through which the chapter authors explore both the minutiae and expansive influence of digital transformation.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in the Economy, Society and Democracy 1 Elias G. Carayannis, Evangelos Grigoroudis, Sokratis Katsikas and David F.J. Campbell PART I CYBER-SECURITY 1 Categorizing cyber effects 7 Charles T. Harry and Nancy W. Gallagher 2 The challenge of advanced cyberwar and the place of cyberpeace 33 Elias G. Carayannis and John Draper 3 International sea, air and space politics 81 Alexandra Fabrykowska PART II INNOVATION AND CYBER-DEMOCRACY 4 Innovation as a driver of political preference formation in post-industrial society: origins and consequences 112 David M. Wineroither 5 Securing democracy in cyberspace 130 Andrew N. Liaropoulos 6 Microtargeting and big data: opportunities and threats for (cyber‑)democracy 145 Matthias Keppel PART III SOCIETY 5.0 7 Digital and green twins of Industry & Society 5.0: the role of universities 166 Elias G. Carayannis and Joanna Morawska 8 Increasing the research relevance for societal actors: the contribution of participatory research techniques to knowledge democracy 203 Magdalena Fellner 9 Crossing the black and white pattern of a chessboard with the colors of art: the digital turn and live reform movement 4.0 224 Ruth Mateus-Berr PART IV ECONOMY 5.0 AND QUINTUPLE INNOVATION HELIX 10 Aligning the Quintuple Helix model of innovation with Vietnam’s context: evidence from artificial intelligence innovation dialogues 252 Anh-Nguyet Luong 11 The bright future of ecosystem economies: explainable and reliable artificial intelligence via software–hardware interoperability 274 Georg Christoph Hanschitz 12 The academic firm within a Cyber-D4 environment 297 David F.J. Campbell and Elias G. Carayannis PART V ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 13 Technology transfer and innovation in higher education governance: comparing conceptual understandings displayed by University Performance Agreements over time 308 Magdalena Fellner, Attila Pausits and Florian Reisky 14 Innovation and student equity in higher education 326 Corinna Geppert and Franziska Lessky 15 Emergency and innovation: the impact of state-of-emergency on innovative educational practices during the Covid-19 pandemic 345 Attila Pausits, Stefan Oppl, Sandra Schön, Magdalena Fellner, David F.J. Campbell and Martin Dobiasch PART VI INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE 16 Accelerating institutional research in China’s higher education institutions 373 Qin Zhuoli 17 Institutional research: past, present and future 381 Ana Parrón Cabañero 18 University governance in Austria, Finland and Scotland: possible implications from digitalization and Covid-19 394 Kajetan Stransky-Can Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book proposes a new perspective on building innovation in companies providing business services. Implementing an innovation orientation paradigm based on six pillars - strategy, organisational culture, human resources, structure and process, marketing, and technology - it sets out a framework for achieving innovation through knowledge management. Offering practical suggestions for knowledge management, the book proposes a measurement tool of innovation orientation, highlighting the key challenges faced by companies providing business services and how a new, innovation-oriented paradigm can meet these challenges. Chapters provide a comprehensive analysis of service companies, illustrating a methodology by which these companies can gain a competitive advantage. Proposing theoretical insights for managing business services, this unique and state-of-the-art book will be of interest to international researchers of innovation and knowledge management, as it indicates potential paths for future research in these areas. Business managers and other practitioners will also benefit from this book’s practical guidance in the role of innovation orientation in managing a knowledge-based service company.Trade Review'Innovation is often deemed to be the purview of manufacturing firms, but this book highlights the ways service businesses evolve an innovation orientation. It further discusses how market leadership can be achieved through an innovation orientation. Both service business owners, as well as academicians, will find this book of benefit.' -- Judy Siguaw, East Carolina University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The nature of business services 2. Orientation of business service enterprises: theoretical and terminological issues 3. Strategic dimension in innovation orientation 4. Dimension of organisational culture in innovation orientation 5. The human resources dimension in innovation orientation 6. Structural and process dimension in innovation orientation 7. Marketing dimension in innovation orientation 8. Technological dimension in the innovation orientation 9. Performance and innovation orientation measurement framework of business services research References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Within the span of a generation, innovation and entrepreneurship have emerged as two of the most vital forces in the economy and in society. This Research Agenda highlights new insights and approaches to guide future thinking, research and policy in the area. To accomplish this, the editors have brought together a group of accomplished scholars spanning economics, management, public policy and finance. Drawing on the experiences and insights of leading scholars this Research Agenda covers a broad array of rich and promising topics, including entrepreneurial ecosystems, finance and the role of universities. Focusing on the intersection and overlap between the two disciplines, the Research Agenda begins by establishing the theoretical basis between the two topics, before exploring impact, context, academic entrepreneurship, start-ups, policy and corporate governance. The book concludes with three provocative chapters: Friederike Welter highlighting the power of words and images, Sameeksha Desai discussing the role of artificial intelligence and Mark Casson presenting a case for radical change to how entrepreneurship is studied. Presenting the most salient findings and themes in current literature, A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is essential for researchers in innovation, as well as policy makers at both the local and national levels influenced by the increasing importance of entrepreneurship and innovation.Trade Review'Audretsch, Lehmann and Link have assembled a wealth of insights and frameworks to invigorate the innovation and entrepreneurship research agenda. The inclusion of contributions spanning a broad spectrum of scholars from economics, management, public policy and finance in this most inter-disciplinary of fields is especially welcome.' --Mike Wright, Imperial College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Albert N. Link 2. Schumpeterian Growth Regimes Cristiano Antonelli 3. Measuring Entrepreneurial Impact through Alumni Impact Surveys Shiri Breznitz, Brendan Hills and Qiantao Zhang 4. Academic Entrepreneurship: Between Myth and Reality Alice Civera, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara 5. Principal Investigators and Boundary Spanning Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition: A Conceptual Framework James A. Cunningham 6. The Regional Emergence of Innovative Start-ups: A Research Agenda Michael Fritsch 7. Public and Policy Entrepreneurship Research: A Synthesis of the Literature and Future Perspectives Heike M. Grimm 8. A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano 9. Corporate Governance and Innovation Hezun Li, Timurs Umans and Siri Terjesen 10. Research Opportunities Considering Student Entrepreneurship in University Ecosystems Simon Mosey and Paul Kirkham 11. Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Academic Community: A Suggested Research Agenda Rati Ram, Devrim Göktepe-Hultén, and Rajeev K. Goel 12. The Power of Words and Images – Towards Talking About and Seeing Entrepreneurship and Innovation Differently Friederike Welter 13. Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: Some Thoughts for Entrepreneurship Researchers Sameeksha Desai 14. Entrepreneurship Studies: The Case for Radical Change Mark Casson Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by exploring the role of knowledge and innovation in firm strategy and industrial change. Underlying the volume is the belief that firms have distinctive methods of operation and that these processes have a strong element of continuity. The authors examine the role played by firms in developing, linking and utilizing the knowledge produced in many different social institutions in order to advance their organizational and technological skills. They demonstrate how understanding the manner in which firms enhance their capabilities is essential for recognizing how the economy operates and changes as a whole. To help illuminate the crucial role of knowledge and innovation, the authors use international data and insightful case studies of firms from throughout the world. These include biotechnology in Portugal, oil in Scotland, telephone/internet banking in France and Sweden, and fuel cell development in the US and Europe.This broad-ranging book will be of immense worth to scholars and students in the fields of innovation, R&D management, technology management, organization studies and industrial innovation.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Knowledge and the Firm 1. Craft and Code: Intensification of Innovation and Management of Knowledge 2. The Economics of Governance: The Role of Localized Knowledge in the Interdependence Among Transaction, Coordination and Production 3. Innovation, Consumption and Knowledge: Services and Encapsulation Part II: Innovation and Firm Strategy 4. Paths to Deepwater in the International Upstream Petroleum Industry 5. Consumers and Suppliers as Co-Producers of Technology and Innovation in Electronically Mediated Banking: The Cases of Internet Banking in Nordbanken and Société Générale 6. Technological Shifts and Industry Reaction: Shifts in Fuel Preference for the Fuel Cell Vehicle in the Automotive Industry 7. Distant Networking? The Out-Cluster Strategies of New Biotechnology Firms 8. New Science and Old Industries: Adoption of Biotechnology in European Food Companies 9. Commercialization of Corporate Science and the Production of Research Articles Part III: Long-Term Technological Change and the Economy 10. Making (Kondratiev) Waves: Simulating Long-Run Technical Change for an Integrated Assessment System 11. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the development of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the associated market characteristics and organisational forms. It brings together reputed scholars from a mix of disciplines to explore the nature and evolution of a range of Knowledge Intensive Business Services. Through an examination of KIBS sectors such as computer services, management consultancy and R&D services, the contributions in this book argue that the evolution of KIBS is strongly associated with new inter-organizational forms and that different country institutions shape the characteristics of these organisational forms. The book provides a strong contribution to theory and empirical evidence on fast-growing KIBS and their implications for innovation.The book will be of interest to final year undergraduates and postgraduate students and scholars in the field of innovation studies, organisation studies and comparative business systems, across Europe.Trade Review'The book provides convincing findings against the hypothesis of KIBS as a factor of cognitive convergence or loss of diversity within our economies. On the contrary, KIBS are active agents of divergence and there is no universal pattern of the nature and the evolution of KIBS, but national varieties. It also shows that in order to well understand the inter-organizational collaboration between KIBS and their clients and more generally KIBS dynamics and their performance, transaction cost economies and agent theory should be complemented by other perspectives such as knowledge-based approaches, network theories, modularity theories, etc. This book, which is strongly oriented towards both policy and theoretical questions, is a valuable addition to a body of literature which is still too scarce. No doubt that it will stimulate further research in this field. It is undoubtedly a high level, knowledge intensive service provision about knowledge intensive business services.' -- Faiz Gallouj, University of Lille, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Knowledge Intensive Business Services: Understanding Organizational Forms and the Role of Country Institutions Damian Grimshaw PART I: KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS 2. Principles of Inter-organizational Relationships: An Integrated Survey Bart Nooteboom 3. Outsourcing for Innovation: Systems of Innovation and the Role of Knowledge Intermediaries Jeremy Howells 4. Modularity and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Business Services: IT Outsourcing in Germany and the UK Marcela Miozzo and Damian Grimshaw 5. Make and/or Buy of IT-enabled Services Innovation: The Case of the US Express Delivery Industry Volker Mahnke, Mikkel Lucas Overby and Serden Özcan PART II: KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES IN DIVERSE NATIONAL CONTEXTS 6. Institutional Effects on the Market for IT Outsourcing: Analysing Clients, Suppliers and Staff Transfer in Germany and the UK Damian Grimshaw and Marcela Miozzo 7. Two Types of Organizational Modularity: SAP, ERP Product Architecture and the German Tipping Point in the Make/Buy Decision for IT Services Mark Lehrer 8. Managing Competencies within Entrepreneurial Technologies: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Software Firms in Germany and the UK Steven Casper and Sigurt Vitols 9. The Globalization of Management Consultancy Firms: Constraints and Limitations Glenn Morgan, Andrew Sturdy and Sigrid Quack Index

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Book SynopsisStrategic Innovation in Small Firms is an investigation of the commercialization practices of small firms across a wide range of industries in nine OECD countries. The authors examine the perspective of these firms managers on their national innovation systems and on their firm s innovation management practices. The research is focused on understanding the process of innovation management both from the perspective of the small firm and from a broader strategic perspective. Drawing on a database of 567 cases, the contributors examine the commercialization practices of small to medium sized firms across a wide range of industries. They suggest that there are more similarities than differences to be found between countries and industries with size, level of R&D intensity and type of innovation project being important points of difference. The need for increased formality in the commercialization of radical innovations is shown, although they find that most small firms are not characterized by such formality within their innovation management processes. This multinational study in which a common methodology and case study survey protocol is employed, will strongly appeal to academic researchers and research students as well as policy makers engaged in the support for innovation commercialization in SMEs. Entrepreneurs and small business owners will also find plenty of invaluable information in this unique and important resource.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Strategic Innovation in Small Firms: An Introduction Tim Mazzarol and Sophie Reboud 2. National Innovation Systems Tim Mazzarol, Sophie Reboud and Jean-Guillaume Ditter 3. An Overview of the Survey Findings Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey N. Soutar 4. The Flemish Creative Sector Ysabel Nauwelaerts, Frederik Van Assche and Ilke Van Beveren 5. Innovation Processes in SMEs: The New Zealand Experience Delwyn Clark 6. Designed in Italy: An Unrecognised Italian Innovation Model? Jane Klobas and Paola Bielli 7. The Context and Logic of Innovation at Two Small Enterprises: A Qualitative Analysis Hermann Frank, Manfred Lueger and Christian Korunka 8. SME Innovations: USA Assessment and Climate Results Newell (Sandy) Gough and Philip Olson 9. The Situation in Canada: Analysis of Canadian SME Innovation Behaviour Jacques Baronet and Johanne Queenton 10. The Situation in Switzerland Thierry Volery 11. The Situation in Australian Manufacturing Tim Mazzarol and Vijaya Thyil 12. High and Low R&D Intensity Firms in France Sophie Reboud and Tim Mazzarol 13. The Business of Biotech in Australia Tim Mazzarol 14. Conclusions and Lessons Learnt Tim Mazzarol, Delwyn Clark and Sophie Reboud Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and illuminating book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions.There are numerous questions regarding entrepreneurship and innovation in functional regions that have not yet been answered - until now. Some of the issues that the expert contributors in this field question are - How do firms compete and how do they develop their competitive strategies? How important are entrepreneurial actions and innovation? How important are firm size, firm maturity and corporate structure for innovation? Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, business economics, innovation and regional science.Trade Review'The book is pleasant to read, well formatted, not overloaded with tables and figures, and, most importantly, it is well balanced with respect to contributions that are empirically as well as theoretically motivated. . . the selection of papers offers the reader a valuable and interesting avenue to the ongoing research agenda of entrepreneurship and innovations in a spatial context. The book serves as a solid platform for researchers not yet familiar with this topic.' -- Torben Klarl, Journal of Regional Science'The book begins with an excellent introductory chapter clearly explaining what a functional region is and what its roles are in the independent, yet interconnected, poles of the global economy. Here the authors provide a comprehensive overview illustrating the growing importance of functional regions and providing theoretical underpinnings. . . One of the great strengths of this edited book, however, is that it brings together different perspectives on, and evidence of, innovation and entrepreneurship across regions and industries. Each chapter is self-contained, and each is well written and comprehensive on the specific subject it explores. . . The book is an excellent collection of up-to-date empirical evidence offering inspiring insights into entrepreneurship and innovation in the global knowledge economy. . . Accordingly, I recommend Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions, as an invaluable companion not only for economic geographers but also for urban economists, and policy-makers' -- Li Tang, Science and Public PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough and Börje Johansson 2. Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation Jack A. Goldstone 3. The Swedish Paradox Revisited Olof Ejermo and Astrid Kander 4. Firm Location, Corporate Structure and Innovation Börje Johansson, Amy Rader Olsson and Hans Lööf 5. Firm Size, Firm Maturity and Product and Process R&D in Swedish Manufacturing/Firms Kristina Nyström 6. University-educated Labour, R&D and Regional Export Performance Urban Gråsjö 7. Magnitude and Destination Diversity of Exports: The Role of Product Variety Martin Andersson 8. Differences in Survivor Functions According to Different Competitive/Strategies Raquel Ortega-Argilés and Rosina Moreno 9. A Resource-based Analysis of Bankruptcy Law, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Recovery Gary A.S. Cook, Naresh R. Pandit and Keith Pond 10. Agglomeration Economies, Learning Processes, and Patterns of Firm Spatial Clustering Vito Albino, Francisco Alvarez and Ilaria Giannoccaro 11. Assiduous Firms in a ‘Learning Region’: The Case of East Württemberg, Germany Waldemar Pfoertsch and Reha Tözün 12. Cluster Dynamics: Insights from Broadcasting in Three UK City-Regions Gary A.S. Cook and Naresh R. Pandit 13. Technology, Innovation and Latecomer Strategies: The Case of the Mobile Handset Manufacturing Sector in China Lei Ding and Kingsley E. Haynes 14. Enterprise Development Policy: Modeling the Policy Context Roger R. Stough 15. Entrepreneurial Business Support Networks: A Leader Institution Perspective Tõnu Roolaht Index

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates that, although innovation has always mattered in economic development, simply increasing expenditure in creating knowledge may not be the answer: we need to look at the whole system through which such knowledge translates to value creation. The contributors explore the implications of the changing twenty-first century context of networked, global and increasingly open innovation - a world in which knowledge flows become as important as knowledge creation. In so doing, they address four key questions: what is the context within which innovation occurs in the UK? How do new firms form on the basis of knowledge and its deployment? How do established firms access and use knowledge to improve their current activities and generate new directions? What technical and organizational infrastructures enable these activities?Drawing out lessons for future research, this book will be of great interest to academics concerned with science and innovation policy and its implementation. Managers and policy makers involved in innovation and technology strategy, and with developing responses to new challenges such as 'open innovation', will also find much to interest them within this book.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction John Bessant and Tim Venables PART I: CONTEXT 2. Science and Technology in the UK Pablo D’Este and Andy Neely 3. How Open is Innovation? Linus Dahlander and David Gann 4. Innovation Policy as Cargo Cult: Myth and Reality in Knowledge-led Productivity Growth Alan Hughes 5. New Innovation Models and Australia’s Old Economy Mark Dodgson and John Steen 6. Evolution of UK Government Support for Innovation Tim Minshall PART II: FIRM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 7. Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Economy Erik Stam and Elizabeth Garnsey PART III: CONNECTING FOR INNOVATION 8. Sustaining Breakthrough Innovation in Large Established Firms: Learning Traps and Counteracting Strategies Simone Ferriani, Elizabeth Garnsey and David Probert 9. Search Strategies for Discontinuous Innovation John Bessant and Bettina von Stamm 10. Accelerating Diffusion Amongst Slow Adopters Richard Adams and John Bessant 11. Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Innovation Sue Morton and Neil Burns PART IV: WEALTH FROM KNOWLEDGE 12. How Firms Source Knowledge from Universities: Partnering versus Contracting Markus Perkmann and Kathryn Walsh 13. What are the Factors that Drive the Engagement of Academic Researchers in Knowledge Transfer Activities? Some Reflections for Future Research Pablo D’Este and Andy Neely 14. Exploring the Role of Geographic Proximity in Shaping University–Industry Interaction Kate Bishop, Toke Reichstein and Ammon Salter 15. Enhancing the Flow of Knowledge to Innovation: Challenges for University-based Knowledge Transfer Systems Hossein Sharifi, Weisheng Liu, B. McCaul and Dennis Kehoe 16. Enabling Information Infrastructures and Technologies Roula Michaelides and Dennis Kehoe 17. Conclusion John Bessant and Tim Venables Index

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Book SynopsisThis informative book provides an extensive study in the fields of industry structure, firm strategy and public policy through the use of network concepts and indicators. It also elucidates many of the complexities and challenges involved. The contributors explore the role of networks in industries, reflecting a belief that some of the most important analytical and policy questions related to networks must fully consider the industry level. This includes examining the very structure of industries, the role of relationships in different sectoral systems of production and innovation, and the delineation of real industry boundaries. Innovation Networks in Industries will be a useful enhancement to the studies of postgraduate students in the fields of innovation, industrial economics and strategy. It will also be an invaluable guidance tool for academic researchers and policy-makers.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation Networks in Industries and Sectoral Systems: An Introduction Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas PART I: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE 2. Innovation Networks in Industry Nicholas S. Vonortas 3. The Dynamics of Networks and the Evolution of Industries: A Survey of the Empirical Literature Lorenzo Zirulia PART II: VARIETY OF NETWORKS IN INDUSTRIES AND SECTORAL SYSTEMS 4. Measuring the Corporate Web of Science: Research and Partnership Networks within the European Pharmaceutical Industry Robert J.W. Tijssen 5. Knowledge Search and Strategic Alliance: Evidence from the Electronics Industry Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba 6. Partnership Networks and Knowledge Networks in Five Sectors Koichiro Okamura and Nicholas S. Vonortas 7. What do you Mean by ‘Mobile’? Multi-applicant Inventors in the European Biotechnology Industry Francesco Laforgia and Francesco Lissoni 8. Science as a Communications Network: An Illustration of Nanoscale Science Research Caroline S. Wagner and Susan A. Mohrman PART III: PUBLIC POLICIES FOR NETWORKING IN ICT 9. European Policy Favouring Networks in ICT Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas 10. Evaluating the Links between Research and Deployment Networks of Innovation in Information Society in Europe Lorenzo Cassi, Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas Index

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book provides unique insights into the organisational realities of strategic reconfigurations in uncertain markets, thus advancing the dynamic capability perspective.Dynamic capabilities continue to excite academics. It is a perspective that promises explanations of competitive advantage, but its full potential remains somewhat hidden behind abstract notions. This eloquent volume seeks to overcome the challenge by combining the theory and practice of organisational resource configurations. Joint contributions by expert academics and business executives demystify, but also confirm, elements of the theory. Thus, the book integrates dynamic capabilities with organisational realities as well as with adjacent theories of strategic innovation and entrepreneurship. Strategic Reconfigurations provides a guide to strategic management in turbulent times, for students, researchers, and professionals alike. Business executives in high-velocity markets will find the book invaluable.Trade Review‘In a world of ever increasing talent and ever more rapid creation of new knowledge, and in a world that is growing in complexity by the day, it is truly intriguing to learn of capabilities for success and failure in rapid innovation-based industries. The fusion of academic concepts and empirical insights make this book a source of inspiration for inquiring managers.’ -- Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank and CEO of Deutsche Bank Research, Germany‘This volume represents a most welcome and important contribution to the emergent and fast-growing dynamic capabilities view (DCV) of the firm and sustainable competitive advantage. It simultaneously helps to assess critically, integrate with a wide range of other perspectives, broaden the scope, and deepen the conceptual foundations of the DCV. In addition and importantly, it links DCV to, and contrasts it with, managerial practice. The authors’ dispassionate approach is a further plus. The editors have done an excellent job and should be congratulated for this work that should be a must-read.’ -- Christos Pitelis, Reader in International Business and Competitiveness, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Teece Introduction Stuart Wall, Carsten Zimmermann, Ronald Klingebiel and Dieter Lange PART I: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND ORGANISATIONAL THEORY 1. Leveraging Dynamic Capabilities: A Contingent Management Control System Approach Ian McCarthy and Brian Gordon 2. The Impact of Opposing Governance Systems on Radical innovation: Insights from the Dynamic Capabilities View Michael Horn and Carsten Zimmermann 3. Shaping the Context for Learning: Corporate Alignment Initiatives, Environmental Munificence and Firm Performance Sebastian Raisch and Florian Hotz 4. The Knowledge-based Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities Aino Kianto and Paavo Ritala PART II: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5. Strategic Management Theory and the State: Insights from the Dynamic Capabilities View Dan Breznitz and Carsten Zimmermann 6. Resource Acquisition and Venture Survival in the Telecommunications Industry Berna Polat 7. Growth Paths and Economic Success Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Fabian Günther and Johannes Voll 8. Deploying Strategic Initiatives: Further Consideration of the Flexibility–Stability Balance Ronald Klingebiel 9. A Dynamic Capability Framework: Generic Types of Dynamic Capabilities and their Relationship to Entrepreneurship Einar Lier Madsen PART III: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES IN PRACTICE 10. The Power of Fixed Mobile Convergence: The Changes in the Telecommunications Industry and the Role of Dynamic Capabilities Stefanie Düker, Silvia Boßow-Thies, Philipp Zimmermann and Dieter Lange 11. Strategic Value Chain Redefinitions: Operationalising the Dynamic Capability View Ronald Klingebiel and Dieter Lange Index

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Book SynopsisThis cohesive collection brings together David J. Teece's most important work on the nexus of innovation and competition policy. He was one of the first to flag the importance of innovation issues to competition policy 25 years ago. He has also pioneered the application of economic and organizational principles to issues in the management of innovation.Throughout these essays, Professor Teece shows how technological advances, the advent of the Internet and other recent shifts in the global business landscape have placed businesses in a radically altered situation from even just a few decades ago. He clearly elucidates the need for both businesses and policymakers to adapt to this rapidly evolving landscape by embracing and fostering next-generation competition policies. Topics discussed include antitrust policy, technology strategies, competition policy, market power and intellectual property issues.Students and professors of business and management, innovation studies, intellectual property and competition lawyers will find this volume a critical asset to their work. Policymakers and regulators will also benefit immensely from this lucid and comprehensive collection.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Next-Generation Competition: New Concepts for Understanding How Innovation Shapes Competition and Policy in the Digital Economy David J. Teece PART I INNOVATION, MARKET DEFINITION AND MONOPOLY 1. David J. Teece (2003), ‘The Strategic Management of Technology and Intellectual Property’ 2. Thomas M. Jorde, J. Gregory Sidak and David J. Teece (2000), ‘Innovation, Investment, and Unbundling’ 3. David J. Teece and Mary Coleman (1998), ‘The Meaning of Monopoly: Antitrust Analysis in High-Technology Industries’ 4. J. Gregory Sidak and David J. Teece (2009), ‘Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Law’ PART II INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ANTITRUST ISSUES 5. Deepak Somaya, David Teece and Simon Wakeman (2011), ‘Innovation in Multi-Invention Contexts: Mapping Solutions to Technological and Intellectual Property Complexity’ 6. David J. Teece and Edward F. Sherry (2003), ‘Standards Setting and Antitrust’ 7. Edward F. Sherry and David J. Teece (2000), ‘The Misuse Doctrine: An Economic Reassessment’ PART III APPLYING ANTITRUST PRINCIPLES 8. Thomas M. Jorde and David J. Teece (1993), ‘Rule of Reason Analysis of Horizontal Arrangements: Agreements Designed to Advance Innovation and Commercialize Technology’ 9. Christopher Pleatsikas and David Teece (2001), ‘Economic Fallacies Encountered in the Law of Antitrust: Illustrations from Australia and New Zealand’ 10. Christopher Pleatsikas and David Teece (2001), ‘The Analysis of Market Definition and Market Power in the Context of Rapid Innovation’ 11. J. Gregory Sidak and David J. Teece (2010), ‘Innovation Spillovers and the “Dirt Road” Fallacy: The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Banning Optional Transactions for Enhanced Delivery over the Internet’

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Book SynopsisPublished in Association with the Belgian-Dutch Association for Institutional and Political EconomyThis book takes the multidimensional nature of innovation as its point of departure, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of backgrounds to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of contemporary innovation challenges. Each chapter adopts its own disciplinary perspective, but all share a common focus on the dynamics that are present in the governance of innovation. The concept of governance is central to describing the social dynamics of innovation and the `nuts and bolts' of innovation processes. The authors demonstrate how influencing the process of invention, the kind of invention, and simultaneously benefiting from it, lies intuitively behind the meaning of innovation governance. In particular, two perspectives on innovation are expounded; the first being agency perspective, especially the innovating firm in the economic process, and the second is the wider social context in which innovation occurs. Extensive and comprehensive, this book illustrates that innovation is a complex and rich phenomenon with many dimensions and aspects. With a truly multidisciplinary perspective on the various dynamics affecting the governance of innovation, it will strongly appeal to a wide-ranging audience spanning scholars of innovation management, innovation politics, business administration, economics and political science.Contributors: M.J. Arentsen, M. Callon, G.C. Geerdink, P.-B. Joly, Y. Krozer, A. Midttun, N.-O. Orjasæter, A. Rip, D. Schiliro, P.J. Stauvermann, A.E. Steenge, W. van Rossum, J.-P. VossTable of ContentsContents: 1. Governance of Innovation Maarten J. Arentsen, Wouter van Rossum and Albert E. Steenge 2. Re-inventing Innovation Pierre-Benoit Joly, Arie Rip and Michael Callon 3. Investing in Knowledge: Knowledge, Human Capital and Institutions for the Long Run Growth Daniele Schilirò 4. Universities, Patenting and Multiple Markets Wouter van Rossum 5. The Firm as a Nexus of Product Cycles: Organizing Intrapreneurship in the Innovative Firm Atle Midttun and Nils-Otto Ørjasæter 6. Innovation, Herd Behaviour and Regional Development Gerhard C. Geerdink, Peter J. Stauvermann and Albert E. Steenge 7. Do Innovation Clusters Pay Off? Yoram Krozer 8. Innovation of Governance: The Case of Emissions Trading Jan-Peter Voß Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to present new quality practices adapted to the specifics of innovation processes in order to increase their chances of success while also facilitating support of the creators who are often put off by the constraints of traditional quality management methods. These practices are applied in businesses of all sizes who do not want to broadcast on this subject as they are at the center of the factors that make them competitive. These quality approaches, which are specific to each innovation process, rest on a common methodological platform that is at the core of this book.Table of ContentsPREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION xvii CHAPTER 1. THE INNOVATION CONCEPT 1 1.1. The characteristics of an innovation process 1 1.2. Review of basic conceptual definitions in “general systemics” 13 1.2.1. The concept of a process 14 1.2.2. The concept of a processor 14 1.2.3. The concept of functionality 14 1.2.4. The concept of a function 14 1.2.5. The concept of configuration 15 1.2.6. The managerial architecture of a processor 15 1.3. Evaluation criteria for the success of an innovation 17 1.4. Drivers of socioeconomic exchange for an innovation process 18 1.5. Clarifications on certain actions in an innovation process 23 1.5.1. Managing the configuration of an innovation process 23 1.5.2. Creative research 25 1.5.3. Studies on the impact of a new innovation 29 1.5.4. Feasibility studies in the innovation process 32 1.5.5. The decision-making stages of the innovation process 36 1.6. Classification of innovation processes 37 1.6.1. Three types of company 37 1.6.2. Types of innovations 39 1.6.3. Correlations between types of innovating companies and types of innovation 39 1.6.4. The specificities of type I innovations 40 1.6.5. Specificities of type II innovations 44 1.6.6. Specificities of type II and IV innovations 49 1.7. Conclusion 52 CHAPTER 2. COMPETITIVE QUALITY OF AN INNOVATION 53 2.1. Introduction 53 2.2. The concepts which characterize competitive quality 55 2.3. The use of competitive quality in an innovation process 67 2.4. A model of the competitive quality process in an innovation process 69 2.5. Conclusion 73 CHAPTER 3. COMPETITIVE QUALITY TACTICS 75 3.1. Introduction 75 3.2. The objective of a competitive quality tactics 76 3.3. Planning competitive quality tactics in the innovation process 81 3.4. Methods for designing competitive quality tactics 88 3.5. The performance of competitive quality tactics 91 3.6. Managing the design of competitive quality tactics 91 3.7. Conclusion 94 CHAPTER 4. THE MARKETING QUALITY OF AN INNOVATION 97 4.1. Introduction 97 4.2. Marketing quality in an innovation process 99 4.3. Planning marketing quality within the innovation process 103 4.3.1. Releases of competitive quality fuel 103 4.3.2. The emergence of stakeholders’ competitive quality perceptions 106 4.3.3. Compensatory resources and contributions to the company’s image and reputation 107 4.4. Defining marketing quality 108 4.4.1. Marketing quality in releasing competitive quality fuel 110 4.4.2. Marketing quality in the emergence of competitive quality judgments 111 4.4.3. Marketing quality in the production of compensatory resources 113 4.4.4. Marketing quality in contributing to the company’s image and reputation 114 4.5. Marketing quality performance 115 4.6. Managing the production of marketing quality 117 4.7. Conclusion 120 CHAPTER 5. THE “QUALITY” FUEL OF AN INNOVATION 123 5.1. Introduction 123 5.2. An innovation process’ competitive quality fuel 124 5.3. Planning the design of competitive quality fuel in the innovation process 127 5.4. Ways of defining competitive quality fuel 129 5.5. Performance of the design of competitive quality fuel 136 5.6. Managing the design of competitive quality fuel 138 5.7. Conclusion 141 CHAPTER 6. THE EMITTERS OF QUALITY FUEL 143 6.1. Introduction 143 6.2. Competitive quality fuel emitters 144 6.3. Defining a competitive quality fuel emitter 146 6.4. Planning the design of competitive quality fuel emitters 151 6.5. The performance of the design of competitive quality fuel emitters 154 6.6. Managing the design of quality fuel emitters 155 6.7. Conclusion 158 CHAPTER 7. QUALIFICATION OF EMITTERS 159 7.1. Introduction 159 7.2. The qualification of competitive quality fuel emitters 160 7.3. Method for qualifying competitive quality emitters 161 7.4. The performance of this qualification 164 7.5. Managing the qualification of competitive quality fuel emitters 165 7.6. Conclusion 168 CHAPTER 8. VALIDATION OF MARKETING QUALITY 169 8.1. Introduction 169 8.2. Validation of the competitive quality marketing of an innovation process 170 8.3. Methods for validating competitive marketing quality in an innovation process 171 8.4. Planning the validation of competitive marketing quality 172 8.5. Managing competitive marketing quality validation 173 8.6. Conclusion 175 CHAPTER 9. SUPERVISION OF EMITTERS 177 9.1. Introduction 177 9.2. The objective of supervision 178 9.3. Methods of supervision 179 9.4. Planning the supervision of competitive quality fuel emitters 180 9.5. The performance of the supervision of CQF emitters 182 9.6. Managing the supervision of competitive quality fuel emitters 183 9.7. Conclusion 184 CHAPTER 10. MONITORING PERCEIVED QUALITY 187 10.1. Introduction 187 10.2. The objective of this monitoring 188 10.3. Methods of monitoring perceived quality 189 10.4. Planning the monitoring of perceived quality 190 10.5. Managing the monitoring of perceived quality 192 10.6. Conclusion 194 CHAPTER 11. ENSURING BENEFITS 197 11.1. Introduction 197 11.2. The objective of ensuring benefits 198 11.3. Methods for ensuring benefits 199 11.4. Planning methods for ensuring benefits 200 11.5. The management of ensuring benefits 202 11.6. Conclusion 203 CHAPTER 12. THE ROLE OF THE QUALITY DEPARTMENT 205 12.1. Introduction 205 12.2. Positioning a quality department within an innovation process 206 12.3. The specificities of the quality specialist’s objectives 211 12.4. The objectives of the quality specialist in creative research 214 12.4.1. The quality specialist’s interventions in the emergence of the idea 216 12.4.2. The interventions of the quality specialist in the creation of experimental drafts 218 12.4.3. Interventions of the quality specialist in the creation of drafts of the innovation 221 12.4.4. The interventions of the quality specialist for the creation of drafts of future products or services 226 12.5. The missions of the quality specialist in impact studies on competitive quality fuel 232 12.5.1. The role of the quality specialist in the characterization of future products or services 235 12.5.2. The role of the quality specialist in identifying future clients 237 12.5.3. The role of the quality specialist in the characterization of future uses of the innovation 240 12.5.4. The role of the quality specialist in carrying out prospective studies 243 12.5.5. The role of the quality specialist in carrying out tests on the drafts of future products or services 247 12.6. The missions of the quality specialist in the feasibility studies 253 12.6.1. The role of the quality specialist in conducting the initial feasibility tests of the future products or services 256 12.6.2. The role of the quality specialist in identifying future stakeholders in the project 258 12.6.3. The role of the quality specialist in the feasibility studies on exchanges with the future stakeholders in the project 259 12.6.4. The role of the quality specialist in carrying out performance tests of future products or services incorporating the innovation 263 12.6.5. The role of the quality specialist identifying stakeholders in the future BU 265 12.6.6. The role of the quality specialist in studies on the ability of the company to produce future products or services 267 12.7. The role of the quality specialist in equipment design 270 12.7.1. The role of the quality specialist in the construction of the innovation processor 273 12.7.2. The role of the quality specialist in the design of prototypes of the production system for future products or services 275 12.7.3. The role of the quality specialist in the intellectual protection of the innovation 277 12.8. The role of the quality specialist in assisting decision-making 278 12.9. Conclusion 285 CHAPTER 13. QUALITY CULTURE IN PROJECT TEAMS 287 13.1. Introduction 287 13.2. The inherent visions of quality 288 13.3. The aptitudes for producing quality 290 13.3.1. Individual aptitudes 290 13.3.2. Collective aptitudes 294 13.4. Methods for acquiring aptitudes for producing quality 297 13.5. Conclusion 298 APPENDICES 299 APPENDIX 1 301 APPENDIX 2 309 APPENDIX 3 319 BIBLIOGRAPHY 335 INDEX 339

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Book SynopsisThis book is a general presentation of complex systems, examined from the point of view of management. There is no standard formula to govern such systems, nor to effectively understand and respond to them. The interdisciplinary theory of self-organization is teeming with examples of living systems that can reorganize at a higher level of complexity when confronted with an external challenge of a certain magnitude. Modern businesses, considered as complex systems, ideally know how to flexibly and resiliently adapt to their environment, and also how to prepare for change via self-organization. Understanding sources of potential crisis is essential for leaders, though not all crises are necessarily bad news, as creative firms know how to respond to challenges through innovation: new products and markets, organizational learning for collective intelligence, and more. Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Do We Talk About Complexity in Management? 1 1.1. Examples of complex and/or innovative projects 2 1.2. Complex systems, rationality and knowledge 5 1.2.1. Outlines of complexity and complex systems 5 1.2.2. Information and learning 7 1.2.3. Rationality 10 1.3. Cognition and the theory of the firm 15 1.3.1. Creativity and the evolutionary theory of the firm 17 1.3.2. Creativity and knowledge 18 1.3.3. Creativity and novelty within a system 20 1.4. The entrepreneurial dimension 22 1.4.1. The philosophy of effectuation 24 1.4.2. Evolutionary models 25 1.5. Conclusions 26 Chapter 2. The Evolution of Complex Systems 29 2.1. Adaptation, learning and flexibility 30 2.2. The nonlinear behavior of “imbalanced” systems 32 2.3. Autonomy and responsibility 35 2.3.1. A sociological approach to the question of “irresponsible” complex systems 35 2.3.2. The role of the leader 36 2.4. Different evolutionary models 39 2.4.1. The large models inspired by the natural sciences 39 2.4.2. Human evolution 41 2.4.3. The evolution of economic organizations 42 2.4.4. Proactive evolution: from adaptation to exaptation 44 2.5. Implications for management 46 2.5.1. Thinking in a nonlinear way 46 2.5.2. Anticipating breakthroughs 48 2.5.3. Managing learning and encouraging agents 50 2.6. Closing remarks 52 Chapter 3. Steering Complex Adaptive Systems: Managing Weak Signals 55 3.1. Navigating the ocean of signals 57 3.1.1. Understanding the nature of the ocean 57 3.1.2. Observing the ocean 58 3.1.3. Taking a course 64 3.1.4. Navigating in symbiosis 67 3.2. Managing interdependences and dancing with the system 69 3.2.1. The transmission of signals as a creative process: the example of composite materials 71 3.2.2. The nonlinear changes at the source of evolution 74 3.3. Surfing on the wave 82 3.3.1. Preparing the actors means first listening to them 82 3.3.2. Choosing the right methods to design a strategy 83 3.3.3. Choosing a good steerer 85 3.4. Conclusion 97 Chapter 4. Entrepreneurship, Market Creation and Imagination 99 4.1. Some current stakes of entrepreneurship 102 4.2. The entrepreneur in the history of economic thought 105 4.2.1. The entrepreneur, harbinger of decentralized creativity 106 4.2.2. The entrepreneur according to Jean-Baptiste Say: the assembler of factors 109 4.2.3. The Austrian approach: a form of serendipity within the economic process 110 4.2.4. The Schumpeterian approach: from serendipity to creativity 111 4.2.5. The entrepreneur as a decision-maker in uncertain situations 114 4.2.6. Towards a taxonomy of the entrepreneurial function 116 4.3. Motivations, responsibility and identity of the entrepreneur 117 4.3.1. The entrepreneur’s responsibility 118 4.3.2. The entrepreneur’s identity 119 4.3.3. Conclusion on the entrepreneur’s motivations 122 4.4. Entrepreneurship and complexity: the role of the imagination 123 Chapter 5. Managerial Approaches and Theories of the Firm 127 5.1. Complexity and management: the first steps 130 5.2. Manager’s role versus complex systems 132 5.3. Marketing and complex systems 134 5.3.1. Hypotheses and theories of complex systems 136 5.3.2. Four types of complex systems 137 5.3.3. Honda and the global automobile market 140 5.3.4. Implications for the marketing manager 145 5.4. Complex systems and human resource management 146 5.4.1. RBV and complex systems 147 5.4.2. Strategic human resource management 149 5.5. Conclusion: managers’ creative responses 151 Conclusion 155 References 157 Index 173

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Book SynopsisIn open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. This book offers a new conceptual structure and applicable analytical models for evaluating a firm's innovation strategies in highly competitive environments and for estimating firm value.Using analytical models, Angelo Dringoli examines the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different environmental dynamics. Quantitative models are used to determine the value of innovation strategies in highly dynamic and competitive industries. These clearly reveal the economic variables and relations upon which the strategy depends, and the conditions for creating sustainable value within the firm.This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in economics, finance and business administration, as well as managers and professionals involved in strategic management and firm evaluation.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Value of the Firm in Highly Competitive Industries 2. Main Determinants of Operating Cash Flows 3. Fundamental Environment Trends and Innovation Strategies 4. Creating Value through Process Innovation Strategies 5. Creating Value through Product Innovation Strategies 6. Creating Value through Integrated Innovation Strategies 7. Designing the R&D System of Innovation 8. The Sustainability of Value in Highly Competitive Industries References Index

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Book SynopsisThis essential research review brings together contributions by leading scholars in strategic management, which analyse contemporary thought in complex, knowledge-intensive and dynamic environments. This set of scholarly articles examines the unique challenges posed in these settings and explores the logic that may be used to evaluate innovative investment proposals. It also considers how to capture value from assets in product or knowledge markets, and how to design organizations to assemble resources in innovative settings.Trade Review‘The topics of technology strategy and innovation management are highly complex, often misunderstood, and frequently over-simplified. However, that is not because they are understudied. Precisely because these topics are so important, given their central role in competition, productivity, and economic growth, they have received a great deal of attention from management scholars, economists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Unfortunately, much of this research remains in academic journals, without context and meaning as an aggregate body of work. Professors Leiblein and Ziedonis have carefully articulated the key findings from this literature, organizing them around three general themes: creating, capturing, and delivering value, in a way that makes this important line of inquiry much more meaningful and accessible to practitioners and scholars alike. This is a timely and important book.’Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Michael J. Leiblein and Arvids A. Ziedonis PART I TYPES OF INNOVATION 1. Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson (1986), ‘Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments’ 2. Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark (1990), ‘Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms’ 3. Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower (1996), ‘Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms’ PART II CAPTURING VALUE FROM INNOVATION 4. David J. Teece (1986), ‘Profiting from Technological Innovation: Implications for Integration, Collaboration, Licensing, and Public Policy’ 5. Richard C. Levin, Alvin K. Klevorick, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1987), ‘Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development’ 6. Sidney G. Winter (2000), ‘Appropriating the Gains from Innovation’ 7. Joshua S. Gans and Scott Stern (2003), ‘The Product Market and the Market for “Ideas”: Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs’ 8. Ashish Arora and Marco Ceccagnoli (2006), ‘Patent Protection, Complementary Assets, and Firms’ Incentives for Technology Licensing’ 9. Mary Tripsas (1997), ‘Unraveling the Process of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets and Incumbent Survival in the Typesetter Industry’ PART III DELIVERING INNOVATIVE VALUE THROUGH RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ORGANIZATION ACTIVITY 10. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1990), ‘Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation’ 11. Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson (2004), ‘Science as a Map in Technological Search’ 12. Jack A. Nickerson and Todd R. Zenger (2004), ‘A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm – The Problem-Solving Perspective’ 13. Iain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson and Scott Stern (2000), ‘Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage’ PART IV DELIVERING INNOVATIVE VALUE THROUGH INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL DRIVERS 14. Gary P. Pisano (1990), ‘The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis’ 15. Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput and Laurel Smith-Doerr (1996), ‘Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology’ 16. David C. Mowery, Joanne E. Oxley and Brian S. Silverman (1996), ‘Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer’ 17. Michael J. Leiblein, Jeffrey J. Reuer and Frédéric Dalsace (2002), ‘Do Make or Buy Decisions Matter? The Influence of Organizational Governance on Technological Performance’ 18. Joanne E. Oxley and Rachelle C. Sampson (2004), ‘The Scope and Governance of International R&D Alliances’ 19. Gautam Ahuja and Riitta Katilla (2001), ‘Technological Acquisitions and the Innovation Performance of Acquiring Firms: A Longitudinal Study’ PART V REAL OPTIONS 20. Rita Gunther McGrath (1997), ‘A Real Options Logic for Initiating Technology Positioning Investments’ 21. Bruce Kogut and Nalin Kulatilaka (2001), ‘Capabilities as Real Options’ 22. Timothy B. Folta and Jonathan P. O’Brien (2004), ‘Entry in the Presence of Dueling Options’ 23. Michael J. Leiblein and Arvids A. Ziedonis (2007), ‘Deferral and Growth Options Under Sequential Innovation’ 24. Arvids A. Ziedonis (2007), ‘Real Options in Technology Licensing’ 25. Ron Adner and Daniel A. Levinthal (2004), ‘What Is Not A Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy’

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book addresses the ongoing implications for traditional pharmaceutical companies and biopharmaceutical start-ups of the realignment of the industry knowledge-base. The theoretical approach draws on the modern theory of the firm and related ideas in order to better define the concept of the business model, which is employed to guide the case studies and empirical analysis in the book. The author shows that while traditional pharmaceutical companies have successfully adjusted their business models to meet the challenges of biotechnology, biopharmaceutical start-ups have experienced more problems. Despite the poor financial performance of the vast majority of these firms, the biopharmaceutical sector as a whole has created significant value. However, this has been captured disproportionately by a handful of large, fully-integrated biopharmaceutical firms and, to a lesser extent, by the largest dozen pharmaceutical companies.This highly focused book will be a captivating read for innovation and biopharmaceutical industry analysts, as well as advisers formulating policies to support the development of the biopharmaceutical sector. Academics working on innovation and biotechnology, as well as scientists engaged in research in the life sciences, will also find this book of particular interest.Trade Review‘The processes of discovery, testing and distribution of new medicines have undergone radical change in recent decades, from a focus on small molecule drugs to biomedicine and related technologies. Bruce Rasmussen very effectively draws upon modern theories of the firm, data analysis, and case studies to provide important insights into the consequences of this change. He offers convincing evidence that contradicts the widely-held view that the biopharmaceutical sector has not generated considerable economic value.’ -- Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University, US‘Bio- and pharmaceutical industry discovery is a distressed asset today. Why? Bruce Rasmussen’s book is a timely and very informative work, building on rich data sources and extensive economic research, on a subject of concern to us all. Is medicine discovery in permanent decline? Are the biotechnology and traditional pharma groups on a collision course, will the traditional group absorb the new, will integration take place, will a new discovery model emerge? I commend Bruce’s book to all who wish to understand what is happening.’ -- David W. Anstice, Merck & Co., Inc.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Overview Part I: Firms, Networks and Business Models 2. Lessons from the Modern Theory of the Firm 3. Open Innovation and the Networked Firm 4. The Business Model Part II: The Rise of Biotechnology: New Foundations for Biopharmaceuticals 5. Drug Discovery and Development Technologies 6. Economics of Drug Development: Process, Uncertainties and Cost Part III: Responding to the New Knowledge Base: Diverse Business Models 7. Response of Pharmaceutical Companies to Biotechnology: Structure and Business Models 8. Biopharmaceutical Company Business Models 9. An Overview of Trends in Biomedical Alliances 10. Trends in Biopharmaceutical Alliances for Key Business Models Part VI: Four Case Studies 11. Case Studies in Biopharmaceutical Business Models 12. Biopharmaceutical Value Chains 13. Bioinformatics: A Case Study in the Development of a Platform Technology Part VI: Value Creation and Capture: Implications 14. Single Firm Case Study: Starpharma 15. Creating and Capturing Value in the Biopharmaceutical Sector 16. Implications for Industry Structure References Index

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Book SynopsisThis informative book provides an extensive study in the fields of industry structure, firm strategy and public policy through the use of network concepts and indicators. It also elucidates many of the complexities and challenges involved. The contributors explore the role of networks in industries, reflecting a belief that some of the most important analytical and policy questions related to networks must fully consider the industry level. This includes examining the very structure of industries, the role of relationships in different sectoral systems of production and innovation, and the delineation of real industry boundaries. Innovation Networks in Industries will be a useful enhancement to the studies of postgraduate students in the fields of innovation, industrial economics and strategy. It will also be an invaluable guidance tool for academic researchers and policy-makers.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation Networks in Industries and Sectoral Systems: An Introduction Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas PART I: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE 2. Innovation Networks in Industry Nicholas S. Vonortas 3. The Dynamics of Networks and the Evolution of Industries: A Survey of the Empirical Literature Lorenzo Zirulia PART II: VARIETY OF NETWORKS IN INDUSTRIES AND SECTORAL SYSTEMS 4. Measuring the Corporate Web of Science: Research and Partnership Networks within the European Pharmaceutical Industry Robert J.W. Tijssen 5. Knowledge Search and Strategic Alliance: Evidence from the Electronics Industry Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba 6. Partnership Networks and Knowledge Networks in Five Sectors Koichiro Okamura and Nicholas S. Vonortas 7. What do you Mean by ‘Mobile’? Multi-applicant Inventors in the European Biotechnology Industry Francesco Laforgia and Francesco Lissoni 8. Science as a Communications Network: An Illustration of Nanoscale Science Research Caroline S. Wagner and Susan A. Mohrman PART III: PUBLIC POLICIES FOR NETWORKING IN ICT 9. European Policy Favouring Networks in ICT Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas 10. Evaluating the Links between Research and Deployment Networks of Innovation in Information Society in Europe Lorenzo Cassi, Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume extends our understanding of the many different ways in which distance impacts the knowledge conversion process. While addressing different facets of knowledge, innovation and space, the authors provide an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the global, national, regional and local dynamics of knowledge and innovation.Knowledge itself is a raw input into the innovation process, which can then transform it into an economically useful output such as a prototype, patent, licence or new firm. New knowledge is often tacit and thus tends to be highly localized, as indeed is the conversion process. Consequently, as the book demonstrates, space or distance matter significantly in the transformation of raw knowledge into beneficial knowledge.This innovative book will appeal to academics, students and researchers in the fields of regional science, economics, sociology and innovation. It will also be of interest to policymakers and consultants in international organizations, in particular those dealing with entrepreneurship, development, R&D policies and regional policies on different spatial scales.Contributors include: M. Andersson, T. Arvemo, M. Backman, L. Bjerke, A.P. Cornett, O. Ejermo, U. Gråsjö, T. Hatori, H. Jeong, B. Johansson, S. Johansson, C. Karlsson, K. Kobayashi, H. Lawton-Smith, S. Ochi, M. Okumura, O. Raspe, R.R. Stough, M. Tsukai, T. Ueda, F Van Oort, R. Waters, M. YokomatsuTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Knowledge, Innovation and Space: Introduction Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Roger R. Stough PART I THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSES 2. Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Innovative Urban Environments Otto Raspe and Frank Van Orte 3. Accessibility to R&D: A Reexamination of the Consequences for Invention and Innovation Olof Ejermo and Urban Gråsjö 4. Imports and Regional Development Martin Andersson, Lina Bjerke and Charlie Karlsson 5. The Influence of Knowledge on Firms’ Export Decisions Sara Johansson 6. Knowledge and Skill for Infrastructure Technology and Economic Growth Seiki Ochi, Takayuki Ueda and Muneta Yokomatsu 7. Business Service Location with Spatially Stochastic Demands: Agglomeration Economies Generated by the Intersection of Costs and Localized Uncertain Demand - An Optimal Stock Location Model Approach Makoto Okumura and Makoto Tsukai 8. Regional Learning and Trust Formation Tsuyoshi Hatori, Hayeong Jeong and Kiyoshi Kobayashi 9. Cluster Development Policy as a Tool in Regional Development and Competitiveness Policy – Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Evidence Andreas P. Cornett PART II UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION CASE ANALYSES 10. Returns to Higher Education: A Regional Perspective Mikaela Backman and Lina Bjerke 11. Universities, Science and Engineering Labour Markets in High Technology Local Economies: The Cases of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire Rupert Waters and Helen Lawton-Smith 12. University Colleges’ Effect on Economic Growth in Swedish Middle-Sized Municipalities Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö Index

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Book SynopsisThis poignant study presents a collection of research on entrepreneurship and community engagement. The context of this book is Syracuse University s award winning model of Scholarship in Action with its emphasis on sustainable campus community entrepreneurial partnerships and its resultant 'Syracuse Miracle', the transformation that has occurred in the Central New York community thanks to the university s partnership with the community to drive social, environmental, and economic development. Broken into three engaging sections, this book introduces appraisals of technology entrepreneurship and community engagement; community engagement and entrepreneurship; and entrepreneurship, engagement, and new models of education. The first section includes chapters that focus on successful corporate university partnerships, programs to champion student technology companies, and new models for supporting technology transfer. Section two concentrates on topics including transforming a community law clinic to aid community entrepreneurs, supporting successful entrepreneurs in distressed communities, and engineering a community newspaper in partnership with local residents. The final section includes analyses of services for entrepreneurs with disabilities and an innovative program that connects university students to provide assistance, factors that contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship among adults, and a new entrepreneurial program that provides teacher education.Academic Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement is well suited for both students and scholars, as well as for all those invested in pursuing innovative, progressive avenues of community engagement.Contributors: N. Ali, S. Branagan, M.R. Costa, S. Davis, M.A. D'Eredita, B. Dotger, T. Hagelin, J.M. Haynie, R. Heckman, J. Hurst-Wahl, D.S. Kenn, B. Kingma, S.L. Rothwell, J. Saltz, G. Shaheen, R.V. SmallTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 1. The Five Keys to Success in Academic Entrepreneurship Bruce Kingma 2. Transforming a Professional Curriculum through Engagement with Practice: The Global Enterprise Technology Program at Syracuse University Robert Heckman and Jeffrey Saltz 3. Tapping Our Fountain of Youth: The Guiding Philosophy and First Report on the Syracuse Student Startup Accelerator Michael Anthony D’Eredita and Sean Branagan, with Nasir Ali 4. Syracuse University Technology Commercialization Clinics Theodore Hagelin PART II: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5. Community Development Law and Legal Education Deborah S. Kenn 6. The Syracuse Miracle: Inspiring Entrepreneurs through Conversations Jill Hurst-Wahl 7. South Side Newspaper Project Steve Davis PART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ENGAGEMENT AND NEW MODELS OF EDUCATION 8. Bridging a Traumatic Past to an Envisioned Future: A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship J. Michael Haynie and Gary Shaheen 9. Inclusive Entrepreneurship Gary Shaheen 10. The Role of Information and Motivation in the Process of Innovation Ruth V. Small, Mark R. Costa and Susan L. Rothwell 11. ‘Do it Again!’: Students Serving as Catalysts Within a Teacher Education Innovation Benjamin Dotger Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation places humans, their acts, practices, processes and fantasies at the core of innovation. Bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers, academics and professionals, both established and emerging, this multidisciplinary book provides a comprehensive picture of the vibrant and engaging field of organizational and managerial innovation.The contributors present organizational and managerial innovation as a complex concept underpinned by varied ontological and epistemological traditions and disciplines. They reveal that it is something that exists and occurs at multiple levels of analysis, and from multiple zones of experience - the experience of managers, workers, psychologists, philosophers and economists.This innovative and engaging book will be an essential resource for researchers, practitioners and students alike with an interest in the role of innovation in organizations.Contributors include: R. Agarwal, J. Bessant, J. Birkinshaw, K. Bjørkeng, C. Boedker, A. Carlsen, H.H. Chiu, S. Clegg, M.P. e Cunha, F. Damanpour, E. Dehlin, R. Green, R. Hall, K. Hydle, E. Josserand, M. Kerrin, R. Lamming, C. Magelssen, M. Mol, R. Northcote, F. Patterson, N. Rapport, A. Rego, J.M. Runnalls, L. Sandelands, G.M.P. Swann, S. Teerikangas, P. Thomas, I.G. Vaccaro, L. Välikangas, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, F. Villesèche, H.W. Volberda, L. ZibarrasTrade Review‘The editors of this volume remind us that innovation is an essential part of organizational life and is not restricted to technology. Innovation is a function of human relations and context. To my knowledge, the Handbook is unique in the breadth and depth of offering a diversity of ideas and -- inspiration for studying organizational and managerial innovation (OMI). . . This volume is an excellent reference for researchers, practitioners and students.’– James McRitchie, Navigation‘The volume is rich in diversity of methodological, epistemological and ontological orientations and variety of approaches in organizational and managerial innovation and brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals who contribute a comprehensive picture of the field. . . The Handbook remains an essential resource for all researchers, practitioners and students alike as well as a comprehensive, ambitious, welcome compilation of the patterns of organizational and managerial innovation (and development) across the globe.’ -- 0 Lucian Blaga, Management of Sustainable DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: An Entrée to Organizational and Managerial Innovation Tyrone S. Pitsis, Ace Simpson and Erlend Dehlin PART I: INNOVATION AS MANAGERIAL TECHNIQUE(S) 1. Relating Management Innovation to Product and Process Innovation: Private Rents versus Public Gains Michael Mol and Julian Birkinshaw 2. Network Innovation John Bessant and Richard Lamming 3. Engaged Employees! An Actor Perspective on Innovation SatuTeerikangas and Liisa Välikangas 4. Making Innovation Happen Using Accounting Controls Christina Boedker and Jonathon Mark Runnalls 5. Innovation and the Division of Labour G.M. Peter Swann 6. Managing Innovation in Action: The Case of Self-Managing Teams Ignacio G. Vaccaro, Henk W. Volberda and Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch 7. Employee Innovation Fiona Patterson, Máire Kerrin and Lara Zibarras 8. Management Education for Organizational and Managerial Innovation Renu Agarwal, Roy Green and Richard Hall PART II: INNOVATION AS (PRACTICAL) EMERGENCE 9. Living Ideas at Work Arne Carlsen and Lloyd Sandelands 10. Fleshing Out Everyday Innovation: Phronesis and Improvisation in Knowledge Work Erlend Dehlin 11. Communities of Practice: From Innovation in Practice to the Practice of Innovation Emmanuel Josserand and Florence Villesèche 12. Initiation, Implementation and Complexity of Managerial Innovation Fariborz Damanpour, Holly H. Chiu and Catherine Magelssen 13. Surprising Organization Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg and Arménio Rego PART III: INNOVATION AS NARRATIVE 14. Managing the Łódź Ghetto: Innovation and the Culture of Persecution Nigel Rapport 15. Innovating Professionalism in a Communication Consultancy Kjersti Bjørkeng and Katja Hydle 16. Storytelling in Transforming Practices and Process: The Bayer Case Patrick Thomas and Richard Northcote Index

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Book SynopsisMax Rolfstam examines the increasing emphasis on public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation and the theoretical implications of this policy development. While 'regular' public procurement may be regarded as the outcome of anonymous market processes, public procurement of innovation must be understood as a special case of innovation, where social processes - and consequently the institutions governing these social processes - need to be considered. This book contributes to our understanding with a detailed institutional analysis of the public procurement of innovation.The author draws on an institutional framework that underscores the importance of conducting a multilevel institutional analysis. Unlike earlier studies that reduced public procurement challenges to a legal issue, this book offers insights of a more holistic nature.Academics, students and researchers with an interest in innovation policy will find this book to be an informative and fascinating read. It will also provide an invaluable reference tool on how public procurement can be used as an innovation policy tool for policy makers at both national and EU levels.Contents 1. Introduction 2. Public Procurement of Innovation Theory 3. Legal Institutions for Public Procurement of Innovation 4. Public Procurement of Innovation Diffusion 5. Public Procurement of Innovation as Collaboration 6. Public Procurement of Innovation as Endogenous-Exogenous Knowledge Conversion 7. Success Factors Public Procurement of Innovation 8. Concluding Remarks References IndexTrade Review‘Public Procurement and Innovation contributes an understanding of how multiple institutions impact procurement, and supplies evidence for the ongoing debate over policies' role in guiding innovation. This book is timely and relevant . . .Anyone interested in public procurement, innovation, EU policy, or technology policy will find the book worthwhile.’ -- Paige A. Clayton, Science and Public PolicyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Public Procurement of Innovation Theory 3. Legal Institutions for Public Procurement of Innovation 4. Public Procurement of Innovation Diffusion 5. Public Procurement of Innovation as Collaboration 6. Public Procurement of Innovation as Endogenous–Exogenous Knowledge Conversion 7. Success Factors Public Procurement of Innovation 8. Concluding Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisAn experienced entrepreneur and educator, Colin Jones has written this book to help entrepreneurship educators pause and reflect upon their students’ learning, and therefore their own responsibilities as educators. He advocates a student-centric way to teach entrepreneurship and to building the curriculum. He shakes up the reader’s thinking and invites discussion on an experiential learning approach, to engage students in learning about entrepreneurship.This book is deliberatively provocative, and awakens another level of thinking on how to teach entrepreneurship. It will be required reading for entrepreneurship educators and those building a university entrepreneurship programme for years to come.Trade Review‘Colin Jones hits some nails firmly on the head in this enlightening text. Driven by learning and accepting of the fact that contexts change, often at great pace, his writing is firmly placed in the heads of the people who need these experiences, learners who not only need to recognise future opportunities but to reap the benefits of realizing them in meaningful ways. He has been there, wears the T Shirt of failure with pride and develops thoughtful ‘spaces’ in which we can reflect and move on. More importantly, Jones’ position as meddler in the middle now extends beyond his classrooms and conference presentations, providing us with a text that I thoroughly recommend to you.’ -- Andy Penaluna, CEO Enterprise Educators UK‘Reading this book will greatly help educators in the field of entrepreneurship. As stated by Colin Jones the title could be How to Allow Students to Learn About Entrepreneurship. It means that the author has adopted a student-centric approach emphasizing learning processes in entrepreneurship. The book and its main ideas have emerged from a personal journey combining entrepreneurial and educational experiences. Above all, this book is a fascinating and reflexive approach on how entrepreneurship education should be thought and delivered.’ -- Alain Fayolle, EM Lyon Business School, France‘It is with delight that I endorse Dr Jones’ application of entrepreneurship education in the context of undergraduates. A theory to practice philosophy is maintained, as well as enhancement of the entrepreneurship-directed approach to learning based on the idea of experiential learning, in which new activity produces a new experience and new thinking through reflection.’ -- Alex Maritz, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia‘Teaching Entrepreneurship to Undergraduates is a mandatory read for all academics who love teaching, and will stimulate discussions and further enquiry on teaching in higher education for many years. This groundbreaking and practical book provides a unique and superior conceptualization of entrepreneurship education, creating a more student-centric approach to learning, not a lecturer-centric approach to teaching. This book focuses on how entrepreneurial educators, and any university faculty, could become much more effective at teaching by a adopting this new perspective on education, its objectives and its outcomes.’ -- Morgan Miles, Georgia Southern University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Allan Gibb Introduction Part I: Scoping the Issues 1. Your Teaching Philosophy 2. Entrepreneurship Education 3. The Ontological Dilemma Part II: The Nature of Our Students’ Learning 4. The Reasonable Adventurer 5. Student Diversity 6. The Learning Environment 7. The Resource Profile Part III: Being Entrepreneurial 8. The Art of Selling 9. Evaluating Ideas 10. Business Plans Part IV: Towards an Ecology of Learning 11. Accounting for Interaction Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates that, although innovation has always mattered in economic development, simply increasing expenditure in creating knowledge may not be the answer: we need to look at the whole system through which such knowledge translates to value creation. The contributors explore the implications of the changing twenty-first century context of networked, global and increasingly open innovation - a world in which knowledge flows become as important as knowledge creation. In so doing, they address four key questions: what is the context within which innovation occurs in the UK? How do new firms form on the basis of knowledge and its deployment? How do established firms access and use knowledge to improve their current activities and generate new directions? What technical and organizational infrastructures enable these activities?Drawing out lessons for future research, this book will be of great interest to academics concerned with science and innovation policy and its implementation. Managers and policy makers involved in innovation and technology strategy, and with developing responses to new challenges such as 'open innovation', will also find much to interest them within this book.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction John Bessant and Tim Venables PART I: CONTEXT 2. Science and Technology in the UK Pablo D’Este and Andy Neely 3. How Open is Innovation? Linus Dahlander and David Gann 4. Innovation Policy as Cargo Cult: Myth and Reality in Knowledge-led Productivity Growth Alan Hughes 5. New Innovation Models and Australia’s Old Economy Mark Dodgson and John Steen 6. Evolution of UK Government Support for Innovation Tim Minshall PART II: FIRM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 7. Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Economy Erik Stam and Elizabeth Garnsey PART III: CONNECTING FOR INNOVATION 8. Sustaining Breakthrough Innovation in Large Established Firms: Learning Traps and Counteracting Strategies Simone Ferriani, Elizabeth Garnsey and David Probert 9. Search Strategies for Discontinuous Innovation John Bessant and Bettina von Stamm 10. Accelerating Diffusion Amongst Slow Adopters Richard Adams and John Bessant 11. Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Innovation Sue Morton and Neil Burns PART IV: WEALTH FROM KNOWLEDGE 12. How Firms Source Knowledge from Universities: Partnering versus Contracting Markus Perkmann and Kathryn Walsh 13. What are the Factors that Drive the Engagement of Academic Researchers in Knowledge Transfer Activities? Some Reflections for Future Research Pablo D’Este and Andy Neely 14. Exploring the Role of Geographic Proximity in Shaping University–Industry Interaction Kate Bishop, Toke Reichstein and Ammon Salter 15. Enhancing the Flow of Knowledge to Innovation: Challenges for University-based Knowledge Transfer Systems Hossein Sharifi, Weisheng Liu, B. McCaul and Dennis Kehoe 16. Enabling Information Infrastructures and Technologies Roula Michaelides and Dennis Kehoe 17. Conclusion John Bessant and Tim Venables Index

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Book SynopsisThis essential collection of papers by David J. Teece explores ideas of both theoretical and practical significance in the field of strategic management, particularly the importance of dynamic capabilities for organizations in industries undergoing change.In an era of global specialization, mainstream theories of the firm that obsess on contracts and production functions, knowledge accumulations, and knowledge dispersion are poor abstractions of reality. The author's understanding of contemporary realities is well reflected and clearly articulated in this critical volume. Topics addressed include the development and elaboration of the dynamic capabilities framework (with an emphasis on the orchestration of resources both inside and outside the firm to capture value), as well as the theoretical and conceptual understanding of the essence of the firm.Students, professors and researchers working in economics, business and management, organization studies and innovation studies will find this book an invaluable resource.Trade Review'Religion, Rights and Secular Society by Peter Cumper and Tom Lewis is a both timely and important publication. In a series of highly interesting and well-written essays - some of which are case studies covering many different European nations whereas others are more theoretical - the book looks at a key paradox in contemporary Europe: the relatively high levels of secularity in most European countries on the one hand, and the marked resurgence of religion in public debates on the other. While never pretending that there are ready answers to the problems of reconciling secular and religious values in Europe, the contributors make it quite clear that Europeans need to return to questions about religion that they had previously regarded as being settled. This is food for thought at a very high level!' --- Helle Porsdam, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction David J. Teece PART I FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGY 1. David J. Teece (2010), ‘Alfred Chandler and “Capabilities” Theories of Strategy and Management’ 2. David J. Teece (2010), ‘Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation’ 3. Mie Augier and David J. Teece (2008), ‘Strategy as Evolution with Design: The Foundations of Dynamic Capabilities and the Role of Managers in the Economic System’ 4. David Teece (2003), ‘Knowledge and Competence as Strategic Assets’ PART II INNOVATION 5. David J. Teece (2003), ‘Industrial Research’ 6. David J. Teece (2005), ‘Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments’ 7. David J. Teece (2006), ‘Reflections on “Profiting from Innovation”’ 8. Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece (2007), ‘How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture’ 9. David J. Teece (2010), ‘Technological Innovation and the Theory of the Firm’ 10. David J. Teece (2008), ‘Dosi’s Technological Paradigms and Trajectories: Insights for Economics and Management’ 11. Mie Augier and David J. Teece (2005), ‘An Economics Perspective on Intellectual Capital’ 12. David J. Teece and Sidney G. Winter (1984), ‘The Limits of Neoclassical Theory in Management Education’ PART III INNOVATION AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM A Boundaries 13. Henry Ogden Armour and David J. Teece (1980), ‘Vertical Integration and Technological Innovation’ 14. David J. Teece (2005), ‘Technological Know-How, Property Rights, and Enterprise Boundaries: The Contribution of Arora and Merges’ B Cooperation, Contracts and Licensing 15. David J. Teece (1989), ‘Inter-Organizational Requirements of the Innovation Process’ 16. Kyle J. Mayer and David J. Teece (2008), ‘Unpacking Strategic Alliances: The Structure and Purpose of Alliance Versus Supplier Relationships’ 17. Chris Pleatsikas and David Teece (2001), ‘The Competitive Assessment of Vertical Long-Term Contracts’ 18. Edward F. Sherry and David J. Teece (2004), ‘Contractual Hazards and Long-Term Contracting: A TCE View from the Petroleum Industry’ C Internationalization 19. David J. Teece (2006), ‘Reflections on the Hymer Thesis and the Multinational Enterprise’ 20. Mie Augier and David J. Teece (2007), ‘Dynamic Capabilities and Multinational Enterprise: Penrosean Insights and Omissions’ 21. Christos N. Pitelis and David J. Teece (2010), ‘Cross-Border Market Co-Creation, Dynamic Capabilities and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Multinational Enterprise’ D Capabilities 22. Mie Augier and David J. Teece (2006), ‘Understanding Complex Organization: The Role of Know-How, Internal Structure, and Human Behavior in the Evolution of Capabilities’ 23. Valery S. Katkalo, Christos N. Pitelis and David J. Teece (2010), ‘Introduction: On the Nature and Scope of Dynamic Capabilities’ 24. David J. Teece (2007), ‘Explicating Dynamic Capabilities: The Nature and Microfoundations of (Sustainable) Enterprise Performance’ 25. David J. Teece (2007), ‘Managers, Markets, and Dynamic Capabilities’ 26. David J. Teece (2010), ‘Technological Innovation and the Theory of the Firm: Towards a Theory of the Innovating Firm’

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Book SynopsisKeeping up with fast evolving technology is a challenge that every business leader faces. As organisations start to wake up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s becoming more important than ever to be able to utilise and exploit new digital platforms. With the simple aim of demystifying blockchain for business leaders, The Executive Guide to Blockchain offers a jargon-free explanation and framework to better understand blockchain technologies and their impact on organizations. Enabling any business leader with or without specific computing knowledge to reap the benefits of blockchain whilst understanding the limitations, this book will empower you to: Identify opportunities for blockchain in your own business sectors Understand smart contracts and their relationship with the law Create a blockchain strategy and business case Implement blockchain technologies and maximise their potential. Written by experts in non-technical language, this practical resource can be applied to any industry, and arm you with the knowledge needed to capture the possibilities of digital business.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Distinguish the Hype from the Reality 3. Cryptography for Busy People 4. Blockchain Fundamentals 5. Cryptocurrency Ecosystem 6. Blockchain Use Cases 7. Creating a Blockchain Strategy 8. Smart Contracts 9. Regulation 10. The Future of Blockchain

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Book SynopsisDigital technologies are currently dramatically changing healthcare. This book introduces the reader to the latest digital innovations in healthcare in fields such as artificial intelligence, points out new ways in patient care and describes the limits of its application. It also offers essential guidance in the form of structured and authoritative contributions by domain experts spanning from artificial intelligence to hospital management to radiology to dentistry to preventive medicine. Furthermore, it shares ideas and experiences of industry veterans, in particular on how IT-driven solutions could solve long-standing issues in the fields of healthcare and hospitalization. It also gives advice on what new digital technologies to consider for becoming a healthcare market leader in the future. Taken together, these contributions provide a “road map” to guide decision makers, physicians, academics, industry representatives and other interested readers to understand the large impact of digital technology on healthcare today and its enormous potential for future development.Table of ContentsArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Foundations, Opportunities and Challenges.- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Foundations, Opportunities and Challenges.- Opening the Door for Digital Transformation in Hospitals – IT Expert’s Point of View.- Digitalization from the Patients’ Perspective.- Digitalization in Rehabilitation.- Digitalization in Dentistry.- Changes in Medical Processes Due to Digitalization: Examples from Telemedicine.- COVID-19 as a Driver for Digital Transformation in Healthcare.- The Radiology of the Future.- Digitalization of Pneumological Care in the Outpatient Sector - An Inventory.- Computer Vision Applications in Medical Diagnostics.- Home 4.0 – With Sensor Data from Everyday Life to Health and Care Prognosis.- Digital Healthcare Applications: Marketing, Sales and Communication.- Ethical Implications of Digitalization in Healthcare.- Efficiently Delivering Healthcare by Repurposing Solution Principles from Industrial Condition Monitoring: A Meta-Analysis.- Microservices as Architectural Style.- Value Added Process Design for Digital Transformation in Hospitals and Medical Networks.- Digital Pharmacy.- Smart Contracts in Healthcare.- Evaluating the Ethical Aspects of Online Counseling.- Machine Learning as Key Technology of AI: Automated Workforce Planning.- Six Areas of Healthcare Where AI is Effectively Saving Lives Today.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides insights into the possibilities, realities and challenges of the rapidly evolving world of 3D printing or additive manufacturing. Contributors cover the applications for 3D printing, available materials, research, and the business of additive manufacturing from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work highlights the contribution of women leaders in additive manufacturing, inspiring women and men, girls and boys to enter and apply themselves to world of 3D printing and be a part of bringing the true potential of 3D printing to fruition. The book features contributions of prominent female engineers, scientists, business and technology leaders in additive manufacturing from academia, industry and government labs. Provides insight into women’s contributions to the field of additive manufacturing; Presents information from academia, research, government labs and industry into advances and applications in the rapidly evolving and growing field of 3D printing; Includes applications in industries such as medicine, aerospace, and automotive. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Accelerating the Use of Additive.- Additive in Aerospace.- Advances & Challenges of Metal 3D Printing.- Suppling the Industry for 3D Printed Parts.- Additive in Automotive.- Additive and Art.- Pulling Together the Women of Additive.- Pushing the Boundaries of Binder Jet with Metal.- Additive as an Entrepreneur, Maker, and NASA Advocate.- Industry Start Up and Innovator.- Medical Device Uses in Additive Printing Cells; It’s Not Just Science Fiction.- Design for Additive with Production Uses.- The Illusion of Hollywood.- Go Big or Go Home.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), held online on June 13-18, 2021. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals. The proceedings include papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains and productive sectors. This volume includes papers addressing the following topics: Working with Computer Systems, Human Modelling and Simulation, Neuroergonomics, Biomechanics, Affective Design, Anthropometry, Advanced Imaging.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book provides a critical analysis of the co-design processes activated in 10 co-creation labs addressing societal challenges across Europe. Each lab as a case study of real-life experimentation is described through its journey, starting from the purpose on the ground of the experimentation and the challenge addressed. Specific attention is then drawn on the role of policies and policy maker engagement. Finally, the experimentation is enquired in terms of its output, transformations triggered within the organization and the overall ecosystem, and its outcomes, opening the reasoning towards the lessons learnt and reflections that the entire co-creation journey brought.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts. The first part focuses on localization economics, cluster theory, the role of innovation, and innovation partnerships in cluster formations. The second part of the volume presents original research carried out from 2018 to 2020 in the field of both natural clusters and organized clusters. In addition to examining the impact of cluster membership, the contributions also focus on additional factors that may affect the financial performance of companies. In the third part, an additional survey and case studies are presented, to examine the specifics of family businesses in selected industrial districts of the textile, glass, and jewelry industries. A broader overview of the development of dominant industries in the selected districts is provided, for an easier understanding of the relationships of competition among companies and locations in the business clusters. The book evaluates implications for microeconomic and macroeconomic policies and provides proposals for corporate inter-organizational behavior.This volume addresses scholars and researchers of economics, business, and management, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of innovation and performance drivers of business clusters.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Evolving Insight of Localization Theories into Cluster Existence.- Chapter 3. Theory of Clusters.- Chapter 4. Innovation and Innovation Partnership.- Chapter 5. Dynamic Development of Companies in an Industry Cluster.- Chapter 6. Conceptual and Methodical Research Procedures.- Chapter 7. Specifics of Natural Industry Clusters.- Chapter 8. Specifics of Institutionalised Cluster Organisations.- Chapter 9. Economic Impact of Clusters.- Chapter 10. Approach to Innovation in Selected Industries.- Chapter 11. Tradition, Innovation and Family Business as Factors of Sustainable Development of Industry Clusters.- Chapter 12. Summary and Discussion of Research into Natural and Institutionalised Cluster Organisations. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisBy 2020, the global economy, led by the US – China duopoly, was experiencing the longest economic expansion on record. An economic slowdown was natural, but few experts expected a triple socioeconomic crisis: a crisis in the medical sector along with a crisis in the social realm and an economic crisis. This volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the current global crises, and its socioeconomic ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments, systems and developing countries. Featuring selected papers from the 2020 Annual Griffiths School of Management and IT Conference (GSMAC), held in Oradea, Romania, this volume focuses on business, technological and ethical considerations in the process of navigating through crisis. The chapters explore diverse aspects of the sanitary crisis and its ramifications for countries and organizations. Finally, it provides diagnosis and recommendations for managerial practice in various industries impacted.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Significance of Wellness and Its Presence in the Life of the Romanian Young Generation.- Chapter 2: Systemic risk causality among economic sectors.- Chapter 3: Destination management as determinant of tourist attractiveness.- Chapter 4: Mapping the performance of smart cities in the European Union.- Chapter 5: Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities in energy transition to smart electricity grids.- Chapter 6: Study of Knowledge Management Impact on Sustainable Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 7: Public Pension Systems Financial Sustainability in Central and Eastern European Countries.- Chapter 8: A bioeconomic perspective on agriculture development in the European Union.- Chapter 9: Risk and solutions for economic entities identified through integrated reporting.- Chapter 10: Highlighting the Driving Forces of the Shadow Economy among EU countries.- Chapter 11: New business models for civil society organisations in times of crisis.- Chapter 12: Towards a Romanian Entrepreneurial and Ecological University.

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Book SynopsisThe concepts for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will fundamentally change supply chains, production processes and industries. Intelligent technologies such as IoT, edge and cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and digital assistance systems are drivers of this change. This book provides a comprehensive overview of IoT use cases with illustrative practical examples of how digitization or innovation projects can be successfully implemented. It takes into consideration that processes are getting more flexible and efficient, and new digital technologies allow seamless, location-independent communication in near real time between things, processes and people through the digitization of physical objects and processes. Considering these changes, the book provides a guideline on how companies should position themselves for the future with industrial IoT in order to still play a decisive role in the industry in a few years' time. The book is aimed at both decision-makers and practitioners who, on the one hand, recognize the opportunities and possibilities for their company and, on the other hand, want to learn how to use the appropriate technologies. With this in mind it will be valuable for entrepreneurs, managers, architects and also developers in the field of Industry 4.0.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Connected Things: People, Machines and Plants in the Internet of Things (IoT).- Chapter 2. Blueprint for IoT Systems.- Chapter 3. IoT Platforms.- Chapter 4. IoT and Enterprise Software.- Chapter 5. Interaction of IoT with Other Technologies.- Chapter 6. Prepare IoT Projects Successfully.- Chapter 7. Use Cases for the Internet of Things.- Chapter 8. From Project to IoT Strategy.

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