Research and development management Books
Taylor & Francis Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion Clothing and Textiles
Book SynopsisThe issue of sustainability is characterised as a âwicked problemâ in the fashion, clothing and textiles sector and is now coming into increased focus due to growing consumer, business and policy pressures. This in-depth volume presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges and emerging opportunities faced by the sector, and provides strategic solutions as to how the sector can substantially accelerate sustainability.This book collates research and industry best practice to provide a âone-stop shopâ exploring the complex and interconnected issues surrounding sustainability in fashion, clothing and textiles. The practical and digestible chapters include innovative examples and perspectives from different regions of the globe, addressing topics from policies to supply chain issues and materials innovation. Five unique case studies of sustainable businesses provide detailed examples of pioneering practice. Edited by three professionals with long-standing knowledge and experTable of Contents1. Introduction PART I Fashion system landscape 2. Overview 3. The Wicked Problem PART II Policy and standards 4. Global policy covering sustainability in fashion and clothing: a review and implications 5. Traceability, transparency and greenwashing: highlighting growing drivers for traceability and transparency in the sector, and emerging challenges surrounding greenwashing of garments 6. Using textile testing information to ensure garment quality, longevity and transparency PART III Business and innovation 7. Finance and funding for upscaling sustainable fashion 8. Managing sustainable innovation 9. Fostering sustainable practices: the case of micro and small designer fashion enterprises PART IV Case studies: values-based entrepreneurs 10. Desserto®: cactus fibre as leather substitute 11. DePloy: customisation for 360° sustainability 12. TOBEFRANK: transparency in practice 13. MUD Jeans: denim with circularity 14. SXD: working with cliate refugees PART V Consumers, culture and ecosystems 15. Clothing 2050: garment scenarios to drive circular material systems 16. Shifting the needle: can we build the next generation of consumer activism and advocacy for sustainable fashion? 17. Crafting connections with clothing: values, influence and relationships 18. Unheard voices: reclaiming fashion sustainability 19. Regions, communities, and localism PART VI Circular economy 20. Circular economy in the textile and apparel sector: an overview of global trends, challenges and opportunities 21. New forms of governance to accelerate circular textiles in the Netherlands 22. Accelerating circularity in textiles: lessons learned from a regional perspective 23. Biomimicry, biomaterials and textiles 24. Reincarnation: waste, reuse, repair and upcycling PART VII Education 25. Curriculum: challenges, opportunities, and approaches to increasing sustainability content in fashion and textiles education 26. Methodologies and tools: incorporating sustainability content in fashion, apparel and textiles educational curriculum through facilitating materials 27. The use of digital pedagogies for accessible and equitable teaching and learning of fashion design for sustainability: a case study PART VIII Future and technology 28. A pathway towards future sustainable fashion in 2030 29. Risky business: sustainable fashion through new technologies 30. Wearable tech, virtual fashion, and immersive technologies 31. Fashion ex machina: human–machine collaboration to support sustainability through customized design and production 32. Conclusion: progress, challenges and prospects
£114.75
Pearson Education Making the Team Global Edition
Table of Contents PART I. THE BASICS OF TEAMWORK 1. Teams in Organizations: Facts and Myths 2. Performance and Productivity: Team Performance Criteria and Threats to Productivity 3. Rewarding Teamwork: Compensation and Performance Appraisals PART II. INTERNAL DYNAMICS 4. Designing the Team: Tasks, People, and Processes 5. Team Identity, Emotion, and Development 6. Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence 7. Team Decision Making: Pitfalls and Solutions 8. Conflict in Teams: Leveraging Differences to Create Opportunity 9. Creativity: Mastering Strategies for High Performance PART III. EXTERNAL DYNAMICS 10. Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating across Teams 11. Leadership: Managing the Paradox 12. Interteam Relations: Competition and Cooperation 13. Teaming Across Distance and Culture APPENDIX 1. Managing Meetings: A Toolkit APPENDIX 2. Tips for Facilitators APPENDIX 3. A Guide for Creating Effective Study Groups APPENDIX 4. Example Items from Peer Evaluations and 360-Degree Performance Evaluations
£65.69
Simon & Schuster Sprint
Book SynopsisFrom inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more.Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution? Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign. In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book. A practi
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Lioncrest Publishing The Acorn Method: How Companies Get Growing Again
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The Story Plant Dare to Become
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Lucid Books How to Write an Exceptional Business Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Winning Investors, Lenders, and Success
Book SynopsisEvery great business starts with a great idea. For an entrepreneur, coming up with a brilliant business concept is the easy part. The tough part comes when you need to create a concrete business plan from the visions in your mind. How to Write an Exceptional Business Plan will help pull those visions out of your head and onto paper, empowering you to:• Clarify your business strategy• Maximize your odds for bank and lender funding • Create a strong impression when pitching to investors This book is for entrepreneurs of all backgrounds who need help creating an exceptional business plan in a way that uses common sense and a straightforward approach. With the accompanying template kit that comes with this book, you will create a business plan that looks professionally developed. You will learn how to research your market and forecast your profits with minimal headache and maximum impact. If you are ready to take action, use this book to conquer the planning phase and move on to the best part: creating and growing your business.
£999.99
Cranberry Press Buying Customers 2.0: Acquire More Customers with
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£17.49
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BenBella Books Story Dash: Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most
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£18.99
De Gruyter Erfolgreiche Transformation Von Geschäftsmodellen
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£31.46
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sprint - El método para resolver problemas y
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£13.91
BIS Publishers B.V. Intelligent Innovation: Three Moves to Design a
Book SynopsisCAPITALIZE ON YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS WITH LEGAL DESIGN THINKING Organizations today innovate to survive in a competitive, complex, and interconnected business world. They co-create with others outside their own organization to succeed. But capturing the value of these bright ideas separately is often very complicated. The Innovation Matrix simplifies and structures innovation management. Start looking at innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) from a pragmatic perspective. This book will take you through three key steps (THINK-STRATEGIZE-ACT) to build an innovation and IP strategy. You will learn to use IP—which is at the core of every innovation—as a tool to define your strategy and manage the innovation process. It includes many examples, templates, and checklists to help put theory into practice. Test yourself with case studies, and use our hands-on Tools (legal design thinking) for your own projects and cases.Trade Review"This book is a necessity for anyone engaged in innovation! Not only does it unravel why intellectual property strategies are critical in today's dynamic and uncertain business world, it also offers a comprehensive hands-on approach empowering professionals to immediately revise and enhance their innovation and IP strategies." - Brian Tjemkes, associate professor in Strategy & Organization, VU Amsterdam
£23.80
The University of Chicago Press Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the
Book SynopsisMeasuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution. National accounts and many other economic statistics were designed before the emergence of the digital economy and the growth in importance of intangible capital. They do not yet fully capture the wide range of innovative activity that is observed in modern economies. This volume examines how to measure innovation, track its effects on economic activity and on prices, and understand how it has changed the structure of production processes, labor markets, and organizational form and operation in business. The contributors explore new approaches to and data sources for measurement, such as collecting data for a particular innovation as opposed to a firm and using trademarks for tracking innovation. They also consider the connections between university-based R&D and business start-ups and the potential impacts of innoTrade Review"For those of us interested in the need to measure better—which means understanding better—the increasingly intangible economy, this is a really interesting book. It covers the waterfront from conceptual frameworks down to nitty gritty measurement questions." * Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist *"Despite their wide range, the essays in this book add up to a fascinating glimpse of an emerging new understanding of the twenty-first century economy, like a distant building taking shape as you approach it on a foggy day. They also underline the importance of research on statistics describing the economy. . . . A valuable contribution to the task of understanding the world innovation is creating." * Business Economics *Table of ContentsPrefatory NoteIntroduction Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel I. Expanding Current Measurement Frameworks1. Expanded GDP for Welfare Measurement in the Twenty-First Century Charles Hulten and Leonard I. Nakamura2. Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Administrative Data Javier Miranda and Nikolas Zolas3. Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf II. New Approaches and Data4. How Innovative Are Innovations? A Multidimensional, Survey-Based Approach Wesley M. Cohen, You-Na Lee, and John P. Walsh5. An Anatomy of US Firms Seeking Trademark Registration Emin M. Dinlersoz, Nathan Goldschlag, Amanda Myers, and Nikolas Zolas6. Research Experience as Human Capital in New Business Outcomes Nathan Goldschlag, Ron Jarmin, Julia Lane, and Nikolas Zolas III. Changing Structure of the Economy7. Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, and James R. Spletzer8. Information and Communications Technology, R&D, and Organizational Innovation: Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production Pierre Mohnen, Michael Polder, and George van Leeuwen9. Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income Dominique Guellec IV. Improving Current Measurement Frameworks10. Factor Incomes in Global Value Chains: The Role of Intangibles Wen Chen, Bart Los, and Marcel P. Timmer11. Measuring Moore’s Law: Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes Kenneth Flamm12. Accounting for Innovations in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters David Byrne and Carol Corrado13. The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your Ps, Qs, and Ks David Byrne, Carol Corrado, and Daniel Sichel14. BEA Deflators for Information and Communications Technology Goods and Services: Historical Analysis and Future Plans Erich H. Strassner and David B. Wasshausen Contributors Author Index Subject Index
£106.40
Columbia University Press The Uncertainty Mindset
Book SynopsisDrawing on years of unprecedented access to the best and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, Vaughn Tan reveals how they exemplify what he calls the uncertainty mindset. A revelatory look at the R&D kitchen, The Uncertainty Mindset upends conventional wisdom about how to organize for innovation and offers practical insights.Trade ReviewWhether you’re new to the culinary world or have dined in some of the world’s top restaurants, you’d be hard pressed not to find The Uncertainty Mindset fascinating. Vaughn Tan has written an intriguing, well-researched account of how some of the world’s top chefs and their teams approach culinary innovation—this book is full of valuable insights for forward-thinking, innovation-minded organizations and teams in any sector. -- Nathan Myhrvold, coauthor of Modernist Bread, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking and Modernist Cuisine at Home, author of The Photography of Modernist CuisineVaughn Tan spent long periods observing some of the world’s most famous chefs at work in their prize-winning restaurants and tells his readers what they do and how they do it. A real contribution to our understanding of how experts combine artistic creation and business success. -- Howard S. Becker, author of Art WorldsThe Uncertainty Mindset takes a close look at the secret inner workings of some of the most innovative food R&D teams worldwide. It shows organizations in other industries how to redesign themselves to become more resilient, innovative, and adaptable—by simply changing how they think about the future. -- Amy C. Edmondson, author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and GrowthThis is one of the best books to appear in the last several decades about how to design organizations for continual innovation in high-pressure environments. It offers explanations for why some companies work and others don’t, and made me embrace a new, more subtle way of thinking about hiring, managing, and trusting innovators in leading-edge technology companies. -- Jerry Neumann, founder of Neu Venture CapitalChefs are responsible for some of today’s most novel innovations. Vaughn Tan goes behind the scenes to show how R&D is organized inside the world’s most famous kitchens, uncovering surprising lessons that have wide application. This is a provocative contribution to studies of culture and R&D. -- Woody Powell, Stanford UniversityIf you’re an R&D executive or practitioner, The Uncertainty Mindset is a worthy if occasionally repetitive (in the time-honored academic style) read that should spark ideas for improvement. And if, in this pandemic year, you are missing high-end cuisine, you will surely find it an appetizing read as well. * Strategy + Business *In this closely researched book, the emphasis is on culinary innovation. * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating account of how top chefs and their teams approach innovation. * Welcome to the Jungle *Vaughn’s book is the most insightful treatment I’ve read of industrial R&D organizational practices—and now I’m hungry for more. -- Andy MatuschakInsightful. * LSE Review of Books *The empirical evidence offered by this book not only adds to the research in food studies but will stimulate current discussions on the nature of uncertainty in the market economy among economic sociologists and political economists. * Food Culture and Society *An engrossing account of the challenges faced by some of the world’s leading food organizations that highlight the remarkable mindset of those tasked with overcoming them, celebrating the future’s inevitable uncertainty as an engine for growth. * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. A Partial History of New Ideas in Food1. From the Margins to the Center2. The Undercurrents of the NewPart II. What Is Innovation in Food?3. Well-Known, Barely Understood4. Four Types of New Ideas in FoodPart III. Innovation Is Uncertainty5. A Nondelusional Worldview6. The Uncertainty MindsetPart IV. Building the Ever-Changing Team7. Innovation Implies Change8. Building Innovation Dream TeamsPart V. Creating the New Familiar9. The Power of Familiar Novelty10. Learning House StylePart VI. Staying in the Discomfort Zone11. The Motivation Paradox12. Desperation by DesignPart VII. Insights from the Frontiers of Food13. All Change14. A Mindset for an Uncertain WorldNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Rethinking the Purpose of Business
Book SynopsisRethinking the Purpose of Business challenges reigning shareholder and stakeholder management theories using philosophical and theological dimensions of the Catholic social tradition. In this useful book, the contributors, including management theorists, moral theologians, economists, ethicists, and attorneys, debate complicated issues such as the ethics of profit seeking, equity and efficiency in the firm, the shareholder value principle, social ethics of corporate management, the principle of subsidiarity, and modern contract theory.While the contributors to this thought-provoking volume share a respect for the power of markets, they also assign value to community, common goods, and personal virtue. Essays combine organizational and management theory with philosophical and theological accounts of human purpose. A central argument of this collection is that the tradition of Catholic social thought provides principles that enable fruitful conversations across disciplTrade Review"An earnest collection of essays on what Catholic social teaching has to say about business and corporations and our role in them." —Commonweal“This is a worthwhile book and its contents ought to cause a more intense discussion of Catholic social doctrine among Catholics and others.” —New Oxford Review“...a selection of impressive and insightful essays by erudite authors concerning business management theories that remain in harmony with social traditions of Catholicism...Rethinking the Purpose of Business is thoughtful and thought-provoking reading which is especially commended to anyone seeking to balance the requirements of faith with the demands of commerce.” —The Midwest Book Review“The main benefit of this book is that it shows how widespread the interest is among scholars and businesspeople to use the categories of Catholic social thought to understand business activity.” —Markets & Morality“At this time in America’s history, when business scandals of unimaginable proportions make regular headlines, a volume like this can serve as a starting point for changing the way business is taught in our colleges and universities.” —Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology
£87.55
John Wiley & Sons Inc Discrimination Testing in Sensory Evaluation
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Creating Technology Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book provides concepts and pragmatic illustrations from the industry to help the reader understand complex and difficult issues that are crucial in biomedical research and development. It is intended to bridge the gap between R&D scientists and corporate executives in the biomedical industry and to ensure a strong link between corporate and R&D strategies.Table of ContentsAbout This Book. About Strategy. About Environment. About Technology. Determining Competitive Position. Consistency and Competitiveness. Changing Competitive Position. Assessing the Fit of External Knowledge Sources. Competitive Technology Strategy: Some Implications for Teams. Index.
£125.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc Profiting from Intellectual Capital
Book SynopsisTools and techniques from today's leading intellectual capital innovators: Xerox, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Eastman Chemical, Rockwell, and Skandia "Patrick Sullivan... has brought together some of the best thinkers and best thinking on the subject of intellectual capital.Table of ContentsDEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND CONTEXT. Introduction to Intellectual Capital Management (P. Sullivan). Basic Definitions and Concepts (P. Sullivan). Advanced Definitions and Concepts (P. Sullivan). Culture and Values Management: Context for the Development and Measurement of Intellectual Capital (B. Hall). In Search of a Paradigm (P. Westberg & P. Sullivan). The Confusion of the Capitals: Surveying the Cluttered Landscape of Intellectual "Capitals" and Terminology (M. Hall). Irreconcilable Differences? Managing the Knowledge Creation Interfaces (P. Grindley). Extracting Value from Intellectual Property (P. Sullivan). The IP Portfolio as a Competitive Tool (S. Harrison & K. Rivette). Creating the Portfolio Database (K. Hale). Intellectual Property Management: From Theory to Practice (S. Fox). Intellectual Capital Development at a Spin-Off Company (W. Manfroy & H. Gwinnell). INTELLECTUAL ASSET MANAGEMENT. Extracting Value from Intellectual Assets (P. Sullivan). The Intellectual Asset Manager (J. Daniele). Intellectual Asset Management at Dow Chemical (G. Petrash). Intellectual Asset Management at Avery Dennison (L. Morrison & P. Germeraad). Intellectual Asset Management at Neste (K. Laento). Making it Happen (P. Sullivan). INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT. Measuring and Monitoring Intellectual Capital (S. Harrison &T. Walker). Managing Intellectual Capital at Skandia (L. Edvinsson). The Role of Intellectual Capital in Valuing Knowledge Companies (J. O'Shaughnessy &P. Sullivan). Reporting on Intellectual Capital (P. Sullivan). Understanding and Managing Knowledge Asset for Competitive Advantage in Innovation and Product Development (J. Daniele). Maintaining the Stock of Intellectual Capital (P. Jajko & E. Prime). The Future of Intellectual Capital (P. Sullivan). Appendix.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The PDMA Toolbook for New Product Development 1
Book SynopsisThis book covers all aspects of product development, from the creation of the concept through development and design to the final production, marketing and service. The contributors are members of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and come from such firms as 3M, KPMG Peat Marwick, AT&T, Ingersoll-Rand, and Oscar Mayer.Trade Review"...authoritative book edited by respected authors...a worthwhile addition to the NPD field..." (R & D Management, Vol 33(4), 2003)Table of ContentsContricutors. Introduction. PART 1: PROJECT LEADER TOOLS TO START THE PROJECT. Fuzzy Front End: Effective Methods, Tools and Techniques (P. Koen, et al.). Hunting for Hunting Grounds: Forecasting the Fuzzy Front End (C. Miller). Telephoning Your Way to Compelling Value Propositions (G. Castellion). Focusing NPD Research on Customer-Perceived Value (C. Miller and D. Swaddling). PART 2: PROJECT LEADER TOOLS TO USE ANYTIME. Product Champions: Crossing the Valley of Death (S. Markham). Managing Product Development Teams Effectively (R. Leenders, et al.). Decision Making: The Overlooked Competency in Product Development (M. Deck). How to Assess and Manage Risk in NPD Programs: A Team Based Approach (G. Githens). PART 3: PROCESS OWNER TOOLS. Capturing Employee Ideas for New Products (C. Gorski and E. Heinekamp). Lead User Research and Trend Mapping (L. Meadows). Technology Stage Gate(TM): A Structured Process for Managing High Risk New Technology Projects (G. Ajamian and P. Koen). Universal Design: Principles for Driving Growth into New Markets (J. Mueller and M. Story). PART 4: PORTFOLIO TOOLS. Portfolio Management: Fundamental to New Product Success (R. Cooper, et al.). Assessing the Health of New Product Portfolio Management: A Metric for Assessment (R. Meltzer). Risk Management: The Program Manager's Perspective (D. Dunham). Process Modeling in New Product Development (P. Bunch and G. Blau). The PDMA Glossary for New Product Development. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Successful Product Development
Book SynopsisGo from concept to cash in record time. When you''re working hard on a new product development project, you don''t have time for abstract theoretical concepts. You need concise, practical advice that will help you make things happen-now! You need quick access to clear, proven procedures aimed at producing revenue and profit growth fast. You need Successful Product Development: Speeding from Opportunity to Profit. This unique hands-on guide leads you step-by-step through the product development process, from the creation of ideas, through concurrent design and engineering, to just-in-time delivery of a superior product to the customer ahead of the competition. Every step of this process is driven by one guiding principle: the faster you can move from initial concept to product launch, the sooner you will generate income for your business and achieve your firm''s profit objective. Filled with invaluable time-saving guidance, Successful Product Development: Table of ContentsOverview. THE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. The Fuzzy Front End Interval. The Stages and Gates Interval. After Launch: The Preprofit and Continued Sales Intervals. IMPROVING YOUR PROCESS. Implementation. Continuous Improvement. Appendices. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Applied Business Research Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Book SynopsisThis book introduces students with little or no background in applied research to a deeper understanding of the philosophies that underlie the methods researchers use to acquire, verify and validate information in applied research. It focuses on applied research as a service to a client with a problem that research can solve. It seeks to help students understand how they can apply research to their own businesses, or employ consultants to do the same in the knowledge that they can make informed decisions, emphasising the efficient use of research resources while trying to maximise the likelihood of providing a useful product. Applied Business Research is aimed at improving students? understanding of the practical application of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. It provides a detailed examination of the different methodologies available, such as interviews, focus groups and questionnaires and how to select and apply these different techniques. It ex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Patent Strategy The Managers Guide to Profiting
Book SynopsisFROM PATENT TO PROFIT Patents and patent strategies are increasingly pertinent to the success of information age businesses, from affecting valuations to gaining tax advantages to increasing the starting price per share when taking a company public.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Foreword. Patents in Context--Incorporating Patents into Your Business. An Overview of Patents. Strategies for Managing Patent Liability. Strategies for Leveraging Value From R&D: Implementing a Patent Program. Licensing, Selling, and Buying Patents. Partnering, Strategic Alliances, and Deals. Budgetary Issues. Patent Litigation. A Look Inside Patent Prosecution (Obtaining a Patent). More Prosecution Strategies. Getting a Second Look by the Patent Office: Reexamination and Reissue. Battle for the Same Rights: Interference Proceedings. Patents Abroad. The Risks of Patent Licensing and Enforcement. Choosing a Patent Attorney. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Provides the Following Summary Description of the Provisions of the New Law. Appendix A: Sample Patents. Appendix B: Data on Patent Activity: Issuances, Technology, and Litigations. Appendix C: Preserving Trade Secret Rights and Avoiding Liability for Violating Those of Others. Appendix D: Select Sections of the Patent Laws. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Profiting from Intellectual Capital
Book SynopsisTools and techniques from today''s leading intellectual capital innovators: Xerox, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Eastman Chemical, Rockwell, and Skandia Patrick Sullivan . . . has brought together some of the best thinkers and best thinking on the subject of intellectual capital. Anyone who hopes to profit from intellectual capital will profit from Profiting from Intellectual Capital.-Thomas A. Stewart Author of Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations. A comprehensive collection of the key ideas for effectively managing intellectual assets in the twenty-first century.-Hubert St. Onge Senior Vice President, Strategic Capability, Mutual Life of Canada. The first thorough exposition of how companies manage and extract value from their intellectual capital. The discussion of ''best practices,'' as well as the high level conceptual examination of various intellectual capital issues, is an important contribution to this fast-growing field.-Baruch LeTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I: DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND CONTEXT. Introduction to Intellectual Capital Management (P. Sullivan). Basic Definitions and Concepts (P. Sullivan). Advanced Definitions and Concepts (P. Sullivan). Culture and Values Management: Context for the Development and Measurement of Intellectual Capital (B. Hall). In Search of a Paradigm (P. Westberg & P. Sullivan). The Confusion of the Capitals: Surveying the Cluttered Landscape of Intellectual "Capitals" and Terminology (M. Hall). Irreconcilable Differences? Managing the Knowledge Creation Interfaces (P. Grindley). PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. Extracting Value from Intellectual Property (P. Sullivan). The IP Portfolio as a Competitive Tool (S. Harrison & K. Rivette). Creating the Portfolio Database (K. Hale). Intellectual Property Management: From Theory to Practice (S. Fox). Intellectual Capital Development at a Spin-Off Company (W. Manfroy & H. Gwinnell). PART III: INTELLECTUAL ASSET MANAGEMENT. Extracting Value from Intellectual Assets (P. Sullivan). The Intellectual Asset Manager (J. Daniele). Intellectual Asset Management at Dow Chemical (G. Petrash). Intellectual Asset Management at Avery Dennison (L. Morrison & P. Germeraad). Intellectual Asset Management at Neste (K. Laento). Making It Happen (P. Sullivan). PART IV: INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT. Measuring and Monitoring Intellectual Capital (S. Harrison & T. Walker). Managing Intellectual Capital at Skandia (L. Edvinsson). The Role of Intellectual Capital in Valuing Knowledge Companies (J. O'Shaughnessy & P. Sullivan). Reporting on Intellectual Capital (P. Sullivan). Understanding and Managing Knowledge Asset for Competitive Advantage in Innovation and Product Development (J. Daniele). Maintaining the Stock of Intellectual Capital (P. Jajko & E. Prime). The Future of Intellectual Capital (P. Sullivan). Appendix: Valuing Intellectual Properties (S. Khoury).
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University of California Press The SixLegged Dog
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Princeton University Press Experimental Capitalism
Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries--automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin--and tracks the highs and lows of American highTrade Review"A masterful tapestry that weaves multiple levels of analysis, analytical techniques, and decades of scholarly work to create rich insights about the role of individual enterprise and innovation for the evolution of firms, industries, and regions."—Rajshree Agarwal, University of Maryland"This is an impressive book about the dynamics of firms and industries. Klepper masterfully sheds light on the evolutionary forces that drive entrepreneurship, industrial clustering, and firm dominance in high-tech industries."—Franco Malerba, Bocconi University"Steven Klepper takes readers on a fascinating journey through the life cycle of industries, from birth to maturity. His book is filled with lessons for everyone, including scholars, managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Experimental Capitalism presents a nano approach from a giant in the field."—Alfonso Gambardella, author of Science and Innovation"Experimental Capitalism synthesizes and makes accessible the pathbreaking arguments that Steven Klepper crafted over the course of his career—provocative, illuminating arguments about the nature and sources of the evolution of industries, technological progress, and the development of industry clusters. His book builds on the most detailed data collection imaginable and spells out key policy implications that policymakers in the United States and around the globe should pay close attention to."—Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University"Experimental Capitalism is an important work by an important scholar. Shedding light on the question of where great industries come from, the book provides a unique perspective on the American economy and challenges much of the traditional thinking about what matters for delivering strong economic performance."—David Audretsch, Indiana University"The work of an original economist, Experimental Capitalism uses six major industries as exemplars of a theory of shakeouts. This book succeeds admirably."—Stephen Martin, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsEditors' Preface ix Chapter 1 Innovation and the Market 1 Chapter 2 Once Upon a Time 15 Chapter 3 The Best and the Brightest 62 Chapter 4 The Valley That Shockley Built and the Schoolmaster of Motordom 109 Chapter 5 The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number 149 Chapter 6 The Harder They Come, the Harder They Fall 179 Chapter 7 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 207 Notes 241 Afterword 247 References 249 Index 259
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Princeton University Press Capitalism without Capital
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Economist.com “Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and Business""One of Blackwell’s Best of Non-Fiction 2017""One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics""Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017, chosen by Arnold Kling""The portion of the world's economy that doesn't fit the old model just keeps getting larger. That has major implications for everything from tax law to economic policy to which cities thrive and which cities fall behind, but in general, the rules that govern the economy haven’t kept up. This is one of the biggest trends in the global economy that isn’t getting enough attention. If you want to understand why this matters, the brilliant new book Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake is about a good an explanation as I’ve seen."---Bill Gates"The historical view of ‘capital as something tangible persists and limits our thinking,' the authors argue. To be sure, exactly which intangible assets qualify as capital can be debated endlessly. In Capitalism Without Capital, [they] choose a broad definition and explore its implications. In so doing, they provide insights into some puzzling questions . . . [and] make a good case that we don't know as much as we think because some of our tools for measuring economic performance are out of date."---George Molloan, Wall Street Journal"Economist Jonathan Haskel and UK government adviser Stian Westlake describe in an entertaining and engaging way why governments need to count innovation as an engine of profit."---Ehsan Masood, Nature"One of this year's most important and stimulating economic reads. . . . Read this book."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"Recommended reading for venture capitalists and investment counselors." * Kirkus Reviews *"For an introduction, though, it would be hard to do better than Capitalism without Capital, which is clear and lively and raises--without having all the answers--the relevant questions."---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist"Haskel and Westlake’s book focuses on the rise of the intangible economy. They are not trying to make any statement on the EU, but in one chapter of their book they plot tangible and intangible investment against an OECD measure of employment strictness. The results are fascinating. In their own words: 'countries with more restrictive hiring and firing invest more in tangibles and less in intangibles'."---Graeme Leach, CityAM"And before anyone starts talking about 'the pettiness of arguing over symbols', let me point you to an amazing new book by an ex-colleague of mine, Stian Westlake, called Capitalism Without Capital: the Rise of the Intangible Economy."---Pat Kane, The National"An intriguing book. . . . Perhaps the most surprising facts in a book full of surprises is how large investments in intangible assets--in research and development, software, databases, artistic creations, designs, branding and business processes--now are. . . . Messrs Haskel and Westlake have mapped the economics of a challenging new economy."---Martin Wolf, Financial Times"[Capitalism without Capital] needs to be read by anyone seeking to understand the nature of modern capitalism and its politics."---Daniel Finkelstein, The Times"A first-rate book."---Arnold Kling, Askblog"The book makes its case in a lighthearted, conversational way that will appeal to economists and non-economists alike." * The Economist *"A great new book Capitalism without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake suggests the rise of intangible assets makes corporate banking riskier."---Manish Sabharwal, The Indian Express"In Capitalism without Capital, Haskel and Westlake examine the key characteristics of intangible investments, including scalability, sunk costs, spillover effects, and synergies. . . . Capitalism without Capital is an essential introduction to an important and often overlooked driver of the modern economy." * HuffPost *"The best books on economics take a theme that is instantly recognisable and intuitively correct, and run with it. Capitalism Without Capital, which has been causing a stir recently by charting the rise of so-called intangible investment, is thus a good and thought-provoking book. . . . And, unlike a lot of economics, it is firmly rooted in the world we are in."---David Smith, Sunday Times"[Capitalism without Capital is] superb and important."---Yuval Levin, National Review"[Capitalism without Capital] is a very relevant and timely book."---Peter A. Coclanis, Raleigh News & Observer"The growing importance of the intangible economy is explored in [this] fascinating book."---John Looby, The Sunday Times"Haskel and Westlake tell this story in a compelling way that is chock-full of examples that make the argument concrete and make the book highly readable."---Daniel E. Sichel, Business Economics"Capitalism Without Capital offers a non-technical, wide-ranging scrutiny of the increasing growth of ephemeral goods and services in the economy. The authors provide a consistent economic explanation for the growth of gigantic firms and conglomerates supplying intangible goods and use this analysis, which is especially appropriate for cultural economics, to analyse the finance of this fast-growing sector."---Ruth Towse, Journal of Cultural Economics
£29.75
Stanford University Press Growing an Entrepreneurial Business
Book SynopsisGrowing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases is a new textbook, designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises.Trade Review"Based on decades of research, consulting and teaching experience, Professor Ed Hess presents an extraordinary textbook on entrepreneurial growth. Rejecting the traditional notions of growth for growth's sake, Professor Hess presents a more nuanced view by placing value creation at the center of the growth imperative. Based on painstaking research, this book is an inspiring and practical blueprint for leading and managing growth." -- Sankaran Venkataraman, MasterCard Professor of Business Administration, Darden Graduate School of Business * University of Virginia *"Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases offers a treasury of solid empirical research, described in a most captivating way. This resource also offers insights that will help any practitioner move ahead and reach the full potential and satisfaction from growing an entrepreneurial venture. A must-read!" -- George Hess, Management Professor * Loyola Marymount University *"There are several books that try to cover entrepreneurship from soup to nuts—everything you could possibly want to know about starting a company. This book is fairly unique in its focus on growing an extant entrepreneurial business." -- Philip Anderson, Professor of Entrepreneurship * INSEAD *"Ed Hess has emerged in recent years as a remarkably prolific author on the topic of organic growth. Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is another example of Ed's depth of understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by entrepreneurial ventures as they grow and develop. His findings will no doubt prove valuable to students whose future careers lie in an entrepreneurial space, as well as to entrepreneurs as they guide their organizations to success." -- Robert K. Kazanjian, Professor of Organization & Management, Goizueta Business School"This book is a must read for managers of small and medium sized companies interested in growing their firms. Using examples from case studies as well as his own wisdom and analysis, Hess tackles the tricky question of how to scale an organization in a thoughtful, insightful, and systematic manner." -- William Forster, Assistant Professor
£66.60
University of Pennsylvania Press Slums
Book SynopsisLarge numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and impleTrade Review"Likely to be a frequently used and often cited book, Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work provides an extraordinary array of information on a complex and highly idiosyncratic subject that existing studies treat only in a limited way." * Robert Buckley, The New School *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India —Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries —Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment —Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky PART II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio's Favelas —Janice E. Perlman Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil —Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi's Informal Real Estate Market —Shahana Chattaraj Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region —Sai Balakrishnan PART III. PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formulizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment —Vinit Mukhija Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America —José Brakarz Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City —David Gouverneur Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy —Bish Sanyal Notes References List of Contributors Index
£48.60
Rutgers University Press Americas Healthcare Transformation Strategies and
Book SynopsisA revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in a battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. Robert A. Phillips brings together key thought leaders and trail-blazing practitioners, who provide an exploration of the strategies, innovations, and paradigm shifts that are driving this transformation.Trade Review"America's Healthcare Transformation claims that we are in the midst of a fundamental transformation of the practice of medicine and the $3 trillion annual health care industry. Indeed, this claim is persuasively and seamlessly documented by the contents of the book describing 5 domains: patient safety and quality; health care delivery redesign; emerging paradigms in the practice of medicine; health care delivery reform; and the patient experience." * Journal of Public Health Management and Practice *"Based on his own experience in leading effective change in one of America’s premier academic hospitals, Dr. Phillips has brought together leaders from many disciplines to provide guidance on steering medical institutions through the current turbulent changes in U.S. healthcare. By focusing on the key elements in the evolving transformation of healthcare – safety and quality; the redesign of healthcare delivery; new models of medical practice; methods of reimbursement; and the patient experience – the book provides a comprehensive overview of where we are, how we got here, and where we still need to go to assure that our healthcare system meets the needs of all patients with the highest quality and in the most compassionate, effective, and efficient manner. As such, it has much to offer a wide range of individuals, from the lay public and those interested in healthcare policy, to those charged with leading operational change in their own institutions on a daily basis.” -- Barry S. Coller, M.D. * Physician in Chief and Vice President for Medical Affairs, The Rockefeller University *Table of ContentsPart I: Patient Safety and Quality 1.Organizing Performance Management to Support High Reliability Healthcare Erin S. DuPree, MD, FACOG Chief Medical Officer and Vice President; Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH President and Chief Executive Officer; The Joint Commission 2.Elimination of Unintended Variation in Patient Care Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, FACPE Chairman and CEO; Virginia Mason Health System 3.Fundamental Approaches to Measuring and Improving Patient Safety Sarah P. Slight, MPharm, PhD, PGDip School of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Health; Wolfson Research Institute David W. Bates MD, MSc Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety; Chief Quality Officer; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization 4.The Organizational Culture that Supports Patient Safety Alberta T. Pedroja, PhD, CPHQ, HACP ATP Healthcare Services, LLC 5.The Role of Health Information Technology in Patient Safety Sarah P. Slight, MPharm, PhD, PGDip School of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Health; Wolfson Research Institute David W. Bates MD, MSc Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety; Chief Quality Officer; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization 6.Training Physician Leaders in Patient Safety and Quality - Progress and Challenge Susan A. Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, FACP 7.Use of Registries and Public Reporting to Improve Healthcare Kasaiah Makam, MD Center for Heart and Vascular Health; Christiana Care Health System Sandra Weiss, MD Center for Heart and Vascular Health; Christiana Care Health System William S. Weintraub, MD, MACC John H. Ammon Chair of Cardiology; Center for Heart and Vascular Health; Christiana Care Health System Part II: Healthcare Delivery Redesign 8.Achieving Higher Quality and Lower Costs Via Innovation in Health Care Delivery Design Elizabeth Malcolm, MD, MSHS Director of Implementation and Evaluation, Clinical Excellence Research Center; Instructor in Medicine; Stanford University School of Medicine Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine; Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center; Stanford University School of Medicine 9.Population Health Management: The Lynchpin of Emerging Healthcare Delivery Models Julia D. Andrieni, M.D. Vice President, Population Health and Primary Care, Houston Methodist; President, Houston Methodist Physicians Alliance for Quality 10.Healthcare Delivery Redesign:Team-Based Care Nana E. Coleman, MD, EdM Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Baylor College of Medicine; Section of Critical Care Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital Alicia D.H. Monroe, MD Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs; Professor, Family and Community Medicine; Baylor College of Medicine 11.Medicine Unplugged: Can mHealth Transform Healthcare? Ju Young Kim MD, PhD Scripps Translational Science Institute; Clinical Associate Professor, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Steven Steinhubl, MD Director of Digital Medicine; Scripps Translational Science Institute 12.Telemedicine: Virtually Redefining the Delivery of Care Jason Gorevic, Chief Executive Officer, Teladoc 13.Grand-Aides: Leveraging the Workforce for More Effective and Less Expensive Care Arthur Garson, Jr., MD, MPH Chairman, Grand-Aides USA and International; Director, Health Policy Institute; Texas Medical Center 14.Convenience Care and the Rise of Retail Clinics Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, FCPP, FAAN Chief Executive Officer, National Nursing Centers Consortium; Executive Director, Convenient Care Association Kenneth Patric, MD, DABFM Chief Medical Officer; The Little Clinic Janet J. Teske, DNP Director, Aurora QuickCare Clinics Part III: Emerging Paradigms in the Practice of Medicine 15.Using Guideline-Based Medicine to Improve Patient Care Kunal N. Karmali, MD, MS Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine; Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern University Philip Greenland, MD Harry W. Dingman Professor; Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine; Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern University 16.Precision Medicine: Expanded and Translational Hanh H. Hoang, PhD Research Operations Manager; Office of Strategic Research Initiatives; Houston Methodist Research Institute Mauro Ferrari, PhD Ernest Cockrell Jr. Presidential Distinguished Chair; President and Chief Executive Officer, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College 17.Evidence-Based Medicine and Shared Decision-Making Kasey R. Boehmer, MPH Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit; Mayo Clinic Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit; Mayo Clinic Henry H. Ting, MD, MBA Senior Vice President; Chief Medical Officer for Quality and Patient Safety; New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Healthcare System Part IV: Healthcare Reform and New Payment Methods 18.The Rise of Consumerism and How Insurance Reform Will Drive Healthcare Delivery Reform James L. Field, MBA, DBA President of Research and Insights Division; The Advisory Board Company 19.Creating the Healthcare Transformation from Volume to Value Nikhil G. Thaker, MD Division of Radiation Oncology; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Thomas W. Feeley, MD Helen Shafer Fly Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology; Head, Institute for Cancer Care Innovation; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Harvard Business School Part V: Patient Experience, Engagement, and Services 20.Innovations in Patient Experience Deirdre Mylod, PhD Executive Director, Institute for Innovation; Senior Vice President, Decision Analytics & Research; Press Ganey Associates Thomas H. Lee, MD Chief Medical Officer; Press Ganey Associates Sharyl Wojciechowski, MA Patient Experience Knowledge Manager; Press Ganey Associates 21.Behavioral Economics and Stanford Health Care’s C-I-CARE Patient Experience Amir Dan Rubin Executive Vice President, Optum / UnitedHealth Group; Former President and CEO, Stanford Health Care 22. Impact of an Engaged Workforce on Patient Care: Our Culture of I CARE Marc L. Boom, M.D., M.B.A. President and CEO; Houston Methodist
£105.40
CABI Publishing Managing Agricultural Biotechnology
Book SynopsisBased on ISNAR seminars, this book provides information and case studies distilling information on policies for development and implementation of new agricultural biotechnologies. It covers key managerial and policy issues that research directors, program managers and policymakers face when building capacity and competency in biotechnology.Table of ContentsSECTION I: Addressing Management and Policy Issues I: Identifying Needs and Priorities: A Decision-Making Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology 2: The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms: Relevance for the South 3: Agricultural Biotechnology Research Indicators and Managerial Considerations in Four Developing Countries SECTION II: Setting and Implementing Priorities 4: Methods for Priority Setting in Agricultural Biotechnology Research 5: Setting Research Priorities for the Chilean Biotechnology Program 6: Managing Biotechnology in AARD, Indonesia: Priorities, Funding, and Implementation SECTION III: Maximizing Benefits from Resources 7: Issues in Human Resource Management and Development 8: Managing Bioprospecting and Biotechnology for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity 9: Managing Genetic Resources and Biotechnology at IRRI's Rice Genebank 10: International Collaboration in Agricultural Biotechnology 11: Public- and Private-Sector Biotechnology Research and the Role of International Collaboration 12: Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology: Lessons Learned and Future Strategies SECTION IV: Ensuring Environmental Responsibility 13: Biosafety Management: Key to the Environmentally Responsible Use of Biotechnology 14: Formulating Guidelines for Field-Testing in the Philippines 15: Addressing Public Acceptance Issues for Biotechnology: Experiences from Japan 16: Balancing Needs for Productivity and Sustainability: Genetic Engineering of Rice at IRRI 17: Managing Target Pest Adaptation: The Case of Bt Transgenic Plant Deployment SECTION V: Managing IPR, Proprietary Science, and Technology Transfer 18: Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Biotechnology 19: Agricultural Research and the Management of Intellectual Property 20: Managing Intellectual Property in Embrapa: A Question of Policy and a Change of Heart 21: Managing Proprietary Science and Institutional Inventories for Agricultural Biotechnology 22: International Collaboration: Intellectual Property Management and Partner-Country Perspectives 23: Industrial Research and Business Development: Experiences from the Singapore Institute of Molecular Agrobiology 24: Introducing Transgenic Crops in India: A Joint Venture Approach
£111.20
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘There is a growing interest in improving academic policy engagement in the UK and internationally. However, we still have a lot to learn about how to do this work better. This book provides a novel contribution, with authors drawn from UK government, parliament, research funders and academia. It focuses on three key areas: how academics articulate the value and relevance of research to policy, the different ways in which academic-policy engagement occur and how research impacts upon policy. The contributors bring a vast amount of experience to bear on these topics and as such help to move forward our thinking on how academic-policy engagement might help to promote the use of research to support policy making.’ -- Annette Boaz and Kathryn Oliver, Transforming Evidence and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK‘All too often it seems that researchers “are from Mars and policy makers from Venus.” In other words, policy researchers hope for their research to be useful to policy makers, and policy makers value the insights from policy researchers, but all too often they talk past another. How to Engage Policy Makers is a long overdue book that provides a valuable handbook for researchers on how to bridge that gap and increase the odds that the results of their research will be of value to policy makers.’ -- Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, US‘While the book is titled How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research, it is the subtitle The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy that speaks to its value. The key words being art and impact. This book assembles the experience of 41 such experts, academics, funders and policy authors, to illustrate how the nexus of research and policy is an art that can maximize the potential of your next research-policy engagement.’ -- David J. Phipps, York University, Canada‘The need for the academic community to contribute to policy dialogue, and for policymakers to seek expert advice, has never been more obvious. This book is a highly relevant collection of insights and advice for all those who would like to see better policies, better evidenced, in all walks of life.’ -- Phil Clare, University of Oxford, UK‘Knowledge Exchange practitioners should gain a greater sense of purpose and pride from reading this book, which recognises the particular skills set needed to build sustainable and diverse policy-research relationships. Far from a dry theory of knowledge exchange, this is insightful sharing of practice from people working on the frontlines of academic-policy engagement and who understand the challenges and opportunities such activity offers.’ -- Tamsin Mann, PraxisAuril, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I UNDERSTANDING THE NEED AND ARTICULATING THE OFFER 1 Introduction to How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research 2 Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Tim Vorley and Phil Wallace 2 What do policymakers want from researchers? Developing better understanding of a complex landscape 10 Graeme Reid and Sarah Chaytor 3 The value of research evidence for policy 28 David Christian Rose and Chris Tyler 4 Speaking a shared language 38 Sarah Foxen and Rowena Bermingham 5 From broadcast to engagement: moving beyond traditional mechanisms 50 Anand Menon and Jill Rutter 6 Between disciplines and perspectives: ACT as a PERIpatetic researcher 61 Matjaz Vidmar 7 Co-producing policy relevant research 73 Clementine Hill O’Connor, Lucy Gavens, Dan Chedgzoy and Mary Gogarty 8 Developing and delivering university consortia 83 Annette Bramley 9 When worlds collide: the role of the funder in connecting research and policy 94 Melanie Knetsch and Lauren Tuckerman PART II MODES OF ENGAGEMENT 10 Critical friends – real time insights for shaping strategy 104 Debbie Johnson, Geeta Nathan and Syahirah Abdul Rahman 11 Designing and delivering targeted policy engagement events 113 Sarah Weakley 12 Collaborative doctoral research 124 Tim Vorley and Cristian Gherhes 13 Doing and making the most of PhD internships 136 Lauren Tuckerman 14 Enabling collaboration and building capacity through research networks 146 Phil Wallace, Heidi Hinder, Adam Luqmani and Lisa Hanselmann 15 Mission research: experiences from participation in OECD entrepreneurship policy research projects 154 Helen Lawton Smith 16 Intersectional Anti-Racist Academic Activism for Policy-making (INTARAAP) through community engagement 164 Ima Jackson and Judy Wasige 17 Commissioned research 175 Dan Hodges and Syahirah Abdul Rahman PART III EXAMPLES OF INFORMING, INFLUENCING AND IMPACTING POLICY 18 Engaging with policy makers in emerging markets 185 Ekkehard Ernst 19 The City-Region Economic Development Institute – establishing a successful place-based research institute to support regions in turbulent times and beyond 196 Rebecca Riley, Simon Collinson, Anne Green and Raquel Ortega-Argilés 20 Impacting small business policy: the Enterprise Research Centre 207 Vicki Belt 21 Impacting policy thinking through partnership: insights from Northern Ireland 217 Jen Nelles, Tim Vorley and Eoin McFadden 22 Critical engagement in diversity and entrepreneurship: lessons from the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship 229 Monder Ram 23 Supporting policy towards sustainability 241 Alice Owen 24 How to win friends and influence policy: a guide for new researchers 249 Katy Jones Index 259
£31.30
John Wiley & Sons Inc The 100X Leader
Book SynopsisBecome the leader others want to follow Forget everything you know about motivating others and building a harmonious workplace. If you want to get the best out of people, you must be willing to fight. But, that doesn't mean you become a dominator, nor does coddling others work. The best leader you've ever had in your life was a liberatorsomeone willing to fight for your highest good, even at a personal cost. Inside, global leadership experts Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram explain what made that leader so unique, how to become that person yourself, and how to share the same gift with others. Be one of the few that people actually want to followLearn the lost art of leadershipthe intentional calibration of support and challenge for everyone you lead, your team and your familyBecome a multiplication master as you learn to bring the best out of people for their highest good and that of the whole teamOverhaul entire cultures by focusing on the transformation and empowerment of sub-Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Section I Developing You Chapter 1 Choosing to Climb 03 Chapter 2 The Making of a Sherpa 19 Chapter 3 Your Ultimate Test 35 Chapter 4 Know Yourself to Lead Yourself 57 Chapter 5 Five Circles of Influence 71 Section II Getting Others to a Higher Level Chapter 6 The Higher Levels 95 Chapter 7 Developing Others and Managing Expectations 113 Chapter 8 Becoming a Multiplication Master 135 Section III Creating 100X Cultures Chapter 9 Creating the Atmosphere for Growth 155 Chapter 10 Someone Worth Following 175 Chapter 11 The Sherpa Challenge 191 Our Gift to You 205 Acknowledgments 207 About the Authors 211 About GiANT Worldwide 213 Speaking Inquiries for Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram 215 Index 217
£17.85
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Blueprint
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Stephen M. R. Covey ix Authors’ Note xv Introduction: The Raw Materials of Change Are Already within You xvii Part I Blueprint: Get Unstuck Your Foundation is Everything 3 Your Life Story is Your Leadership Story 15 Step 1 Envision: The Power of Intention and Purpose 29 Step 2 Reflect: Dig Deep 49 Step 3 Study: Lay Your Groundwork 73 Step 4 Plan: Design Your Leadership Model 91 Step 5 Practice: Build Your Leadership Profile 107 Step 6 Improve: Reinforce Your Foundation 121 Putting It All Together: Your Five-Day Action Plan 135 Part II Manifesto: Maximize Your Impact Leadership That Works: It’s All about the People 149 High Performance 167 Abundance 181 Inspire Trust 193 Purpose 207 Courage 221 Integrity 233 The “Grow or Die” Mindset 255 Humility 271 How Can I Help? 287 Have Fun 297 Stay True to Yourself 307 Afterword by Mette Norgaard 313 Acknowledgments 317 About the Authors 319 Appendix: Understanding the ConantLeadership Flywheel 323 Index 331
£19.55
John Wiley & Sons Inc Product Innovation Toolbox
Book SynopsisPRODUCT INNOVATION TOOLBOX Discover how to implement consumer-centric innovation to help create new product development in this latest edition In recent years, behavioral approaches, social media listening, and other new techniques and technologiesdigital techniques, augmented intelligence, machine learning, and advanced biometrics, among othershave been foregrounded in innovation research. A focus on the evolving fields of data science and neuroscience is a driving force for both researchers and the people they study. These digital and mobile technologies have enabled researchers to augment listening, observing and categorizing methods, and to adapt new techniques in attempting to better understand consumers. On the other hand, digitized mobile societies, spurred by faster and cheaper internet access, emphasize an interconnectedness that drastically alters human behaviors and creates borderless influences. Even so, the tenets and approaches to insightful deep learnTable of ContentsContributors xiv Acknowledgements xvi Introduction: The View from Pixel to Picture xviiKannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley Part I Prepare For Your Journey 1 1 Setting the Direction: First, Know Where You Are 4Howard Moskowitz and Jacqueline H. Beckley 1.1 Roles in the corporation – the dance of the knowledge worker 4 1.2 Insights leader – learning on the job vs. learning in school 6 1.3 Being the authentic you 8 1.4 What should you read? 9 1.5 What else do you need to do to prepare to be an insight leader? 9 1.6 Dealing with management and your clients/customers 10 1.7 Guidelines to success 11 1.8 Reporting results 12 1.9 Do not “winstonize” 13 1.10 Making it public – helpful hints to grow from student to professional 15 1.11 The two types of professionals in the world of evaluating products (and studying consumers/people) 16 1.12 Knowing your limits and inviting others in 17 1.13 The bottom line – what’s it all about? 18 Discussion questions 19 References 19 2 The Consumer Explorer: Key to Delivering the Innovation Strategy 22Dulce Paredes and Kannapon Lopetcharat 2.1 The rise of the Consumer Explorer 22 2.2 The roles of the Consumer Explorer 23 2.3 Taking the lead 27 2.4 Practical advice from seasoned explorers 32 Discussion questions 33 References 33 3 Invention and Innovation 36Daniel M. Ennis 3.1 Dual aptitudes needed for innovation 36 3.2 Benefits 38 3.3 The invention–innovation paradigm in science 39 3.4 The time scale of innovations 41 3.5 Final remarks 41 Discussion questions 42 References 42 Note 42 4 Designing the Research Model 44Kannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 4.1 Factors influencing product innovation 44 4.2 Setting up a successful product innovation program 46 4.3 Current approach to NPD 47 4.4 Experimentation in practice 48 4.5 Iterative Experimentation Qualitative–Quantitative Research model 54 Discussion questions 57 References 57 5 What You Must Look For – Signs of High Potential Insights 60Kannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 5.1 What is insight? 60 5.2 Good insights have the following characteristics: 61 5.3 What is an “ownable” insight? 62 5.4 How to develop high potential insights 63 5.5 Making insights ownable 65 5.6 Summary 72 Discussion questions 73 References 73 Part II Gear Up For Your Journey 75 6 Tools for Upfront Research on Consumer Triggers and Barriers: Qualitative Tools 78 6.1 Understanding Consumer Language 78Kannapon Lopetcharat and Jacqueline H. Beckley 6.1.1 Consumers do not understand technical product language, so what should we say about our new products? 78 6.1.2 How to select a method? 79 6.1.3 Free Elicitation and Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique (ZMET) 81 6.1.4 Laddering interview 83 6.1.5 Kelly’s Repertory Grid and Flash Profiling 92 6.1.6 Summary and future 100 Discussion questions 101 Note 101 References 101 6.2 Qualitative Multivariate Analysis 103Kannapon Lopetcharat and Jacqueline H. Beckley 6.2.1 Consumers do not know what they want, really. Really? 103 6.2.2 Introduction 104 6.2.3 Qualitative multivariate analysis in practice 105 6.2.4 Qualitative Multivariate Analysis in practice: deeper understanding of cottage cheese consumption 118 6.2.5 Consumer perceived values 121 6.2.6 Summary and future of Qualitative Multivariate Analysis 123 Discussion questions 123 References 123 6.3 The Gameboard “Model Building” 125Jennifer Vahalik, Melissa Jeltema, Jacqueline H. Beckley, and Jeff Garza 6.3.1 The problem – how to talk to consumers about new products that do not exist? 125 6.3.2 A new method: Gameboard strategy “Model Building” 126 6.3.3 Construction: creative process model 126 6.3.4 Interview guide for model construction methodology 130 6.3.5 Ensuring reliability of the outcomes 132 6.3.6 Analysis of the outcomes from Gameboard “Model Building” 132 6.3.7 Analysis overview 133 6.3.8 Consumer-centered products and Gameboard “Model Building” 134 6.3.9 Limitations 135 6.3.10 Quantitative Gameboard 136 6.3.11 Theoretical background of model construction methodology 137 6.3.12 Summary and future 138 Discussion questions 139 References 139 7 Tools for Upfront Research on Consumer Triggers and Barriers: Qualitative-Quantitative Tools 142 7.1 Creative Blogging 142Kannapon Lopetcharat and Dulce Paredes 7.1.1 Introduction 143 7.1.2 The rise of blogging platforms enables new mode of data collection 145 7.1.3 Creative Blogging 148 7.1.4 Creative Blogging in practice: a case example in Thailand 157 7.1.5 Choosing the platform: Close-or Open-platform 158 7.1.6 Read between the lines: dialogue with consumers 158 7.1.7 Future of Creative Blogging 162 Discussion questions 162 7.2 CATA as a Decision-Making Tool 163Kannapon Lopetcharat and Dulce Paredes 7.2.1 Introduction 163 7.2.2 Check All That Apply (CATA) task in practice 165 7.2.3 Selecting benefit propositions for a new product: a case study of a cleansing product using CATA 169 7.2.4 Summary and future of CATA in product research 176 Discussion questions 176 Notes 176 References 176 8 Tools for Up-Front Research on Understanding Consumer Values 180 8.1 KANO Consumer Product Satisfaction Model 180Alina Stelick, Kannapon Lopetcharat, and Dulce Paredes 8.1.1 What consumer satisfaction can do to your business 180 8.1.2 Philosophy behind KANO’s consumer satisfaction model 182 8.1.3 KANO survey step by step 184 8.1.4 Case Study: Lipstick KANO survey 191 8.1.5 Comparison with degree of importance surveys 192 8.1.6 Future of KANO satisfaction survey 195 Discussion Questions 196 References 196 8.2 Systematics of Communication: Conjoint Measurement, Emotions, Cognitive Economics, and Consumer Mind-sets 198Howard Moskowitz and David Moskowitz 8.2.1 The issue 198 8.2.2 Consumer research: experimentation vs. testing 199 8.2.3 Conjoint analysis (aka conjoint measurement) 200 8.2.4 Doing the basic conjoint analysis experiment 201 8.2.5 The raw material of CA 207 8.2.6 Experimental design 209 8.2.7 Building models 209 8.2.8 Presenting the result – numbers, text, data, talk, move to steps 211 8.2.9 Using the results – what do the numbers tell us? 214 8.2.10 Beyond individual groups to segments – finding mind-sets using conjoint analysis 215 8.2.11 Scenario analysis – discovering synergisms and suppressions (interactions) among elements in a conjoint analysis study 217 8.2.12 Dealing with prices 219 8.2.13 Linking elements to emotions 227 8.2.14 Measuring response time 227 8.2.15 Discovering the “new” through conjoint analysis – creating an innovation machine 228 8.2.16 Mind Genomics™: a new “science of the mind” based upon conjoint analysis 229 8.2.17 The personal viewpoint identifier (PVI) 237 8.2.18 Four considerations dictating the future use of conjoint analysis 241 8.2.19 Conclusion 243 Discussion Questions 243 References 243 9 New Tools Beyond Conventional Qualitative and Quantitative Meanings 246 9.1 Emotions, Moods, and Emotives 246Kannapon Lopetcharat and Dulce Paredes 9.1.1 Introduction 246 9.1.2 Understanding differences between affect, attitude, mood, emotion and emotive 248 9.1.3 Review of emotion theories 248 9.1.4 Popular methodologies for the measurement of emotions 259 9.1.5 Impact of social media on emotion research 261 9.1.6 Conclusion and recommendations 266 Discussion Questions 267 References 267 9.2 Applied Consumer Neuroscience and Behavioral Approaches for Innovation, Product Development, and Communications 271Michelle Niedziela and Kathryn Ambroze 9.2.1 A behavioral approach: behavioral and consumer neuroscience science 272 9.2.2 Applying novel methods to innovation: choosing the right tool 285 9.2.3 Case studies using behavioral science and applied consumer neuroscience 286 9.2.4 Conclusions: conceptual framework for behavior-led Innovation 299 9.2.5 Future of neuroscience 301 Discussion Questions 301 References 302 9.3 Review of Applications of VR Tools, New Opportunities, and Limitations 305Alina Stelick 9.3.1. Importance of context in consumer product research 305 9.3.2. Means of creating context 307 9.3.3. How to create a study using VR/AR tools 313 9.3.4. Looking ahead: what are the current technology limitations and what might be coming up next 317 9.3.5. Summary 320 Discussion Questions 321 References 321 Post Scriptum 326 10 Tools to Refine and Screen Product Ideas in New Product Development 328 10.1 Contemporary Product Research Tools 328Michele Foley 10.1.1 Introduction 328 10.1.2 What is a concept? 329 10.1.3 Elements of a concept 329 10.1.4 What is a concept test? 330 10.1.5 Common measures 333 10.1.6 Sampling: who do you test with? 333 10.1.7 Biometrics applications 334 10.1.8 New developments in concept testing 334 10.1.9 Conclusion: from winning idea to successful product 334 Discussion questions 335 References 335 10.2 Insight Teams: An Adaptive, Self-directed Group to Discovery 336Kannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 10.2.1 Insight Teams for discovery 336 10.2.2 Definition of an Insight Team 337 10.2.3 When to apply the skills of an Insight Team 338 10.2.4 Implementing Insight Teams for development 339 10.2.5 How to use the Insight Team 350 10.2.6 Case study of using the Insight Team 350 10.2.7 The future of Insight Teams 351 Discussion questions 351 References 352 10.3 Rapid Approaches in Defining the Product Space and Product Optimization 353Jennifer Vahalik, Ratapol Teratanavat, Jennifer Lewis, Mary Sonnen, Melissa Jeltema, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 10.3.1 Doing more with less 353 10.3.2 Listening to understand 354 10.3.3 Defining rapid product navigation (RPN) and rapid product optimization (RPO) 355 10.3.4 Recommended tools and “how to” implement RPO 355 10.3.5 Three Case Studies that illustrate the uses of RPN/RPO 363 10.3.6 Theoretical background of the tools 378 10.3.7 Summary and future of the tools 379 Discussion questions 379 Note 380 References 380 10.4 Free-Choice in Context Preference Ranking: A New Approach for Portfolio Assessment 381Ratapol Teratanavat, James Mwai, Melissa Jeltema, and Jennifer Vahalik 10.4.1 Want to offer more. . .but how many is too many? 381 10.4.2 Current approaches on product line extension 382 10.4.3 Free-choice in context preference ranking 385 10.4.4 Practical considerations 391 10.4.5 Theoretical backgrounds of free-choice in context preference ranking 394 10.4.6 Summary and future 394 Discussion questions 395 10.4.A Appendix 395 References 396 10.5 Extended Use Product Research for Predicting Market Success 397Ratapol Teratanavat, Melissa Jeltema, Stephanie Plunkett, and Jennifer Vahalik 10.5.1 Challenges in validating and predicting the success of new product launch 397 10.5.2 Limitations of traditional approaches 399 10.5.3 An alternative: extended use product research 400 10.5.4 Steps in conducting extended use product research (EUPR) 401 10.5.5 Understanding consumer segments 402 10.5.6 Assessment of sensory performance 402 10.5.7 Understanding how consumers make choice decisions 404 10.5.8 Using behavioral measures to help assess product viability 405 10.5.9 Among users, there were also segments of situational users and regular users 406 10.5.10 Additional insights on consumer choice selection – learning from extended use product research 408 10.5.11 Philosophy behind extended use product research 410 10.5.12 Summary and future 411 Discussion questions 411 References 411 Part III Word of the Wise: Wisdom From Experienced Explorers 413 11 Putting It All Together: Driving Consumer-Centric Innovation in an Organization 416Stacey Cox and Anthony Jackel 11.1 For successful innovation, the consumer story must be front and center 416 11.2 What does the path to successful innovation look like? 420 Harnessing the power of the past and using tools to set up for success 422 11.3 Learning from the past before jumping to collect new information 422 11.4 Creating the critical internal contract of the research plan 423 11.5 Gathering the data to help influence the direction of innovation and conversation 424 Synthesize and simplify: designing and utilizing analytical structures and constructs 426 11.6 Connecting the dots of multiple pieces of data and research 426 11.7 Creative listening frameworks to help navigate the consumer conversation 428 11.8 Operationalizing your learnings with visual product models 430 11.9 Crafting the influential strategic conversation to make sense of it all for action 433 Evolving from a research runner to an insights influencer 436 11.10 Moving from a transactional relationship to an integral strategic partner 436 11.11 What does the future hold for the world of insights? 438 Discussion questions 439 Note 440 References 440 12 Above Averages: Use of Statistics and Design of Experiments in Product Innovation Applications 442Kannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 12.1 Experimentation vs. testing 443 12.2 Statistical experimental design 444 12.3 Brief history of experimental design 448 12.4 The age of big data and data science 449 12.5 Managing experimentation 451 12.6 Summary and future 453 Discussion questions 454 References 454 13 How to Work with Industry Experts and Influencers for Innovation 456Veronica Symon 13.1 Introduction 456 13.2 Meet the influencers 457 13.3 Could we go a step further, leverage social media influencers for innovation? 460 13.4 Practical tips 462 13.5 Conclusion 463 Note 463 References 463 14 Words of the Wise – Virtual Staff 466Carter Green, Ratapol Teratanavat, and Dulce Paredes 14.1 Why a virtual staff? 466 14.2 What is virtual staff and what is required to be one? 467 14.3 How do you go about building and utilizing a virtual staff? 468 14.4 How would you rate the performance of a virtual staff? 470 14.5 How does virtual staff work based on success case studies? 472 14.6 Conclusion 473 Discussion questions 474 Note 475 References 475 15 Found in Translation: The Adventure of Conducting Multicultural Consumer Research 478Vanessa Zuccoli and Paulina Morquecho-Campos 15.1 Setting the scene: plan ahead 478 15.2 Infrastructure, logistics and company: everything you take for granted, DON’T! 481 15.3 Multicultural background in just one site 484 15.4 Conclusions: found in translation 485 Discussion questions 486 References 486 16 Sturdy Bridges to Future Trends 490Katherine C. S. Rhodes, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 16.1 Introduction 490 16.2 Redefining data 491 16.3 Legacy tools 500 16.4 Emerging topic: democratization of data 501 16.5 Comparison to 2010–2019 consumer and sensory dive analysis 504 16.6 Conclusion 506 Discussion questions 507 Note 507 References 507 17 Future Trends and Direction 509Kannapon Lopetcharat, Dulce Paredes, and Jacqueline H. Beckley 17.1 Pandemic influenced acceleration of technology 510 17.2 The hybrid model of consumer understanding evolves 511 17.3 The rise of the individual, the human. Moving from consumption as an end goal to understanding the whole person 514 17.4 Nature influenced adoption 516 17.5 Social forces for change 517 17.6 Conclusion 517 References 518 Index 521
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John Wiley & Sons Inc User Experience Research
Book SynopsisThe Fuzzy Front End Gets Demystified in This Next-Generation User Research Guide The first phase of the design thinkingprocessis arguably the most crucial, as this is when human insights areleveraged to define value for customers. Yet this so-called empathize phase is often deemed optional or isexecuted poorly. This degrades the entire innovation process that follows by permitting preexisting biases andguesswork that make value creation a precarious bet. InUser Experience Research: Discover What Customers Really Want,a human factors psychologist and an industrialdesigner have devised a foolproof first phase that addresses the shortcomings of the design thinking process. Basedon their forty years ofgenerative research experience in multiple industries, this is the definitive guide to userexperience research. This repeatable approach is grounded in six key principles that connects users' desiredemotional states to an actionable articulation of an experience. It also provides guidance on creating idealexperienceframeworks that communicate clearly with all stakeholders, from business leaders to design practitioners. User Experience Research: Discover What Customers Really Want is an indispensable, fully illustrated, step-by-stepmanual for anyone seeking a more predictable pathway to the design of new or improved experiences that userstruly desire and would find valuable.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Design Thinking Process 10 The Six Key Principles for 12 Successful User Research 14 How to Use This Book Making Experiences Actionable 1 A User-Driven Perspective on Design Thinking 18 Defining Value: What People Really Want 20 Ideal Experience Research 22 Choosing a Research Approach 2 Define Your Research Objectives 40 Select a Research Approach 44 Consider the End Deliverable 52 Finding Your Target User 3 Identify Participation Criteria 62 Create a Screener 64 Find Your Participants 68 Having Effective Conversations Conducting Research 4 Formulate Your Questions 76 Create a Discussion Guide 80 Conduct Interviews 84 Capturing Clear Data 5 Structure Your Data 98 Use a Spreadsheet Tool 104 Take Good Notes 106 Describing Experiences With Stimuli 6 Understand the Applications of Collaging 114 Prepare Collage Exercises 118 Conduct Collage Exercises 142 Understanding the Situations of Use 7 Approaches to Contextual Inquiry 160 Know Your Documentation Options 164 Conduct an Efficient & Effective Inquiry 170 Conducting Research 8 Prepare for the Study 182 Finalize Your Setup 184 Solidify the Approach 188 Finding the Big Ideas 9 Code the Data 196 Identify Themes 206 Synthesize Themes 216 Telling the Story of the Future 10 Model Experiences 228 Design Sourcebooks 236 Create Storyboards 244 Appendix 252 Index 260
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Boundless
Book SynopsisTransform your organization by making silos a thing of the past In Boundless, two leaders in transformation and customer success deliver an inspiring and exciting new approach to succeeding in an increasingly decentralized and digital-first world. In the book, you'll learn how to demolish organizational silos once and for all, allowing resources to flow across networks, ecosystems, and communities. The authors explain the seven principles underlying their unique and effective Boundless paradigm: connection, integration, decentralization, mobility, continuity, autonomy, and shared success. Walking you through the blueprint for transformative, resilient business success, Boundless also offers: Strategies for mapping the Boundless principles to key technological advances, including digital platforms, blockchain, AI, robotics, cloud computing, and more Ways to achieve the operational, organizational, and technological shifts necessary Table of ContentsPreface xi Our Journey to Boundless xii Our Continued Journey Together xvi Introduction Boundless: A New Mindset for Unlimited Business Success 1 Change in n-Dimensions 7 The Boundless Model 10 Chapter 1 Silos Kill! The Limitations of “Acquire and Retain” 19 Silo Principles 23 Impact and Reach of Silos 27 Problems with the Silo Mindset 28 Silos at the Extreme 31 Chapter 2 The Anti-Silo: The Boundless Alternative 33 The Boundless Principles 35 The Boundless Model in Action: Case Studies 47 Chapter 3 Connection: Relationships | Ecosystems | Sensing 55 Types of Connections 57 Relationships 61 Business Ecosystems 68 The Power of Sense 76 Chapter 4 Distribution: Decentralizing Technologies | Remote = Local | Edges > Centers 81 COVID-19 and the Definition of Normal 83 Decentralizing Technologies 88 Remote = Local 90 Edges > Centers 94 Chapter 5 Integration: Aligned Purpose + Value/s | Orchestration + Choreography | Circularity 99 Alignment 101 Orchestration and Choreography 107 Circularity 115 Integration, Connection, and Alignment at Salesforce 120 Chapter 6 Autonomy: AI | Learning | Identity 125 Meanings of Autonomy 127 AI and Autonomy 133 Identity and Autonomy 136 Tomorrow’s Symbiotic Autonomy 142 Chapter 7 Mobility: Flow | Mobile Technologies | Environments 143 Flow in Action 145 Mobile Technology 150 Flow at Work 152 Chapter 8 Continuity: Process Flow | Circulation | Mindset and Language 157 Process Flow 159 Living Systems and Circulation 171 The Language of Continuity 175 Chapter 9 Shared Success: Experiences | Technologies | Business Models 177 Boundless Experiences 182 Boundless Technologies 183 Boundless Business Models 184 Chapter 10 Becoming Boundless: Mindset | Operating Model | Relationships 191 Leadership Mindset 194 Metaphors and Language 197 The Boundless Operating Model 199 Relationship Strategy 206 Becoming Boundless 209 In Conclusion 215 Acknowledgments 217 About the Authors 219 References 221 Index 231
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Master Your Mind
Book SynopsisYou''ll get there faster if you just slow down Master Your Mind offers a bit of perspective and a lot of insight for anyone seeking long-term success. Success in business is spelled M-O-R-E: better results, faster growth, more revenue, greater efficiency. Do more. Make more. Achieve more. And do it now. Eventually, ambition turns to stress, then to frenzy, then to emptiness as once-ambitious workers endlessly trudge the hamster wheel chasing the next promotion. While top-level performance is the holy grail of business at all levels, there is another, much better way to achieve it: slow down. Yes, you read that rightS-L-O-W. This is your permission to jump off of the hamster wheel. Slowing down is not a luxury, it is a necessity. A frenetic brain simply doesn't perform at optimal levels. By maintaining a snail''s pace, you actually achieve better resultsat rocket speedbecause you''re firing on all cylinders. You''ll think of new things, approach old probleTable of ContentsIntroduction ix Part I Slow Down Your Brain: Let an Elephant Do Your Work for You 1 Chapter 1- Slowing Down, Speeding Up, and Your “Runaway Brain” What Are We Talking About? 5 Chapter 2- Understanding and Harnessing Your Subconscious Brain 15 Chapter 3- Understanding and Harnessing Your Brain Wave Patterns 39 Chapter 4- Your Brain’s Unhelpful Default Settings 51 Chapter 5- The 2-Millimeter Principle and the Recipe for a Breakthrough 59 Part II Slow Down the Game: Counterintuitive Strategies and Tactics That Really Work 73 Chapter 6- Master Your Mind by Mastering Your Input: Programming Your Mind for Automatic Results 77 Chapter 7- Master Your Mind by Mastering the Voices in Your Head 97 Chapter 8- Master Your Mind with the Ridiculous Power of Clarity 109 Chapter 9- Master Your Mind by Mastering Your Week: The Two-Hour Solution 119 Chapter 10- Master Your Mind by Mastering the Art of No 137 Chapter 11- Master Your Mind by Mastering Your Environment: Declutter 151 Chapter 12- Master Your Mind by Mastering Your Body: Take Care of Yourself 161 Chapter 13- Master Your Mind by Mastering Silence and Presence: Shut Up and Listen 169 Chapter 14- Master Your Mind by Getting Micro: Start Small and Improve Incrementally 177 Chapter 15- Mastering Passion and Excellence 189 Conclusion: Next Steps: What to Do from Here? 197 Resource Guide 205 About the Authors 209 Index 211
£14.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Guide to Management Research Methods
Book SynopsisThis text shows business students how to conduct reliable research and how to argue the soundness of their research approach. * A practical introduction to research methods for business students.Trade Review"This is a thoroughly user-friendly introduction to business research methods, taking students through the research process in a logical and applied way. I see it being recommended on many courses, both final-year undergraduate and MBA." John Hassard, UMIST "The Guide to Management Research Methods has served us well on the Research Methods course in our Bachelor programme, which is now taught in English. The students will welcome the first English language edition." G. de Jong, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamTable of ContentsPart I: Planning The Research Project:. 1. Introduction. What Is The Nature Of Fundamental Organisational Research?. What Distinguishes Fundamental Organisational Research From Applied Organisational Research?. Methodological Requirements And Rules Of Fundamental Research In General. Clients. Other Parties Involved In The Research Project. Overview Of Steps In The Research Project. 2. Problem Orientation. Introduction. Research Objective. Problem Definition. Research Questions. The Empirical Cycle. 3. Literature. Introduction. Sources Of Literature. Literature Search. Literature Review. Referring To Literature. 4. Design And Planning Of The Research Project. Introduction. Research Model And Variables. Hypotheses. Operationalization. Levels Of Measurement. Reliability And Validity. Population And Sampling. Ethical Issues. 5. Research Proposal. Research Strategies. Introduction. Classification. Main Categories Of Research Strategies. Casuality. Part II: Conducting The Research Project:. 6. Data Collection Methods. Introduction. Archival Data. Observation. Interview. Questionnaire. Multi-Method. 7. Questionnaires And Interviews. Introduction. Questionnaires - General Remarks. Structure Of The Questionnaire. Interviews - General Remarks. Pilot Study. Making Contact. Anonymity And Confidentiality. 8. Data Analysis. Introduction. The Code Book. Computer Use. Data Matrix. Missing Values. Overview Of Statistical Techniques. Statistical Significance Of The Results. Part III: Reporting The Research Project:. 9. The Research Report. Introduction. Planning. Target Group. Structure Of The Research Report. Style And Layout Of The Report. 10. Presentation. Introduction. Preparing The Presentation. Structure Of The Presentation. The Presentation: Some Rules Of Thumb. Tools. The Audience. 11. Case Study - The Transpost Case. Introduction. Problem Orientation. Research Model and Variables. Research Strategy. Collecting Existing Data. Practical Implementation. Data Analysis. Reporting. Presentation. Further Reading. Appendix: Checklist For Evaluating Research Reports. Index
£24.64
APress Creating a Culture of Innovation
Book Synopsis1. Space and Tools.- Chapter 2: People and Knowledge.- Chapter 3: Communication.- Chapter 4: Showing Off.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.Table of Contents1. Introduction (5 pages)2. Space and tools (40 page)From the way a space is laid out to how often teams eat with each other as a proxy to family life, this section will link existing research and anonymised interviews to discuss the power and impact of these tools and strategies.a. Stationary & interior designi. Open plan offices ii. Hot desking & Co-Working spacesiii. Canteens & eating ritualsiv. Post-its & Whiteboards1. Power & Opinions3. People & Knowledge (30 pages)From ‘Master Inventor’ to ‘Head of Labs’ the way companies assign power to people and departments in charge of innovation shapes how that work happens but also is perceived. In this chapter we will examine the way we view the innovation coming from within and outsiders, the culture of youth around innovation and the segregation we create to manage the impact the ‘real world’ has on cultures of creativity and innovation. i. Job titlesii. In-house1. Futurists & Evangelists2. Internshipsiii. External1. Consultants2. Gurus, Nomads & Piratesa. Case studies3. Attending conferences4. Brown bag lunches & other internal training 4. Communication (30 pages) The structures we use for people to work together is also part of how companies identify themselves as innovative. Whether its written communication or how collaboration is organised, there are myths and data about the effectiveness of these approaches and patterns but they are rarely considered in a ‘monkey see monkey do’ culture of innovation. This chapter will look at each and present the pitfalls and limitations of each tool and approach. i. Written1. Email2. Slack3. Trelloii. Collaboration1. Buzzwords, in-jokes & office language 2. Meetings a. Formats i. Stand upsii. Walk & Talkiii. Note taking3. Conference calls4. Away days5. Methodologiesa. Brainstorming b. Design Thinkingc. Agiled. Business Model Canvas6. The IT department a. Security strategies & Clean desk policiesb. BYOD5. Sharing Innovation (40 pages)Finally innovation isn’t recognised unless it is shared. Here again the patterns most companies adopt are the same, from client-facing innovation physical spaces with blue LEDs in their offices to PR stunts at CES, the effectiveness of these efforts is rarely measured and this chapter will focus on questioning these approaches with case studies. a. Dedicated innovation spacesi. Their purpose & design 1. Case studies b. Maker spaces c. Incubators, Accelerators & Hubsd. PRi. Videoii. Social mediaiii. Tradeshows & conferences1. CES2. SXSW3. TED6. Conclusion (5 pages)Total page count: 150
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Superior Product Development: Managing The
Book SynopsisAn improved product development process is the key to a resurgence in US ability to develop technologically innovative products. Superior Product Development presents lessons learned by firms whose high-value, robust, timely products have been technical and market successes for students of engineering and business as well as business persons, researchers, and consultants in the field of product development. These lessons - the essential elements of superior product development practice - have been synthesized into a Product Development Process Model that may be used as a process template for professionals or a project handbook for students. During the 1980s, the competitiveness gap between US and foreign competition became truly pervasive. Although US-based firms have regained their world market leadership in most industries, US engineering firms continue to lag Japanese and European competitors in the ability to design and manufacture technologically innovative products. Foreign competitors have not beaten US firms with high technology, but with basic design and engineering practices. In many cases, US product development efforts are too slow, too expensive, and too often fail to create products with the features, performance, and quality that customers want. Some US firms have responded successfully to the product development challenge presented by world class competitors. The authors have studied actual successful product development case histories involving the development of complex, innovative products. These firms have combined the engineering, manufacturing, and parts purchasing functions into single teams that value the successful production of a high-value product over all other functional objectives.Table of Contents1 Introduction. 2 The Product Development Process. 3 Product Ideas. 4 Customer Future Needs Projection. 5 Technology Selection and Development. 6 Final Product Definition and Project Targets. 7 Product Design and Evaluation. 8 Marketing and Distribution Preparation. 9 Manufacturing Systems Design. 10 Product Manufacture, Delivery and Use. 11 Leading and Organizing Product Development. Discussion Questions.
£21.21
Information Age Publishing Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D
Book SynopsisStrategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that encompass innovation and R&D through strategic alliances. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as the governance of high-tech alliances, knowledge flows in innovation clusters, co-innovation, and incomplete contracting, and the more focused problems of inexperienced firms in R&D consortia, new product development, and managing alliance portfolio evolution in service innovation. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the role of strategic alliances in the pursuit of innovation and R&D.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D
Book SynopsisStrategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that encompass innovation and R&D through strategic alliances. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as the governance of high-tech alliances, knowledge flows in innovation clusters, co-innovation, and incomplete contracting, and the more focused problems of inexperienced firms in R&D consortia, new product development, and managing alliance portfolio evolution in service innovation. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the role of strategic alliances in the pursuit of innovation and R&D.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Behavioral Strategy for Competitive Advantage
Book SynopsisBehavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and technology. The key roles of psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral decision making in the theory and practice of strategy have yet to be comprehensively grasped. Given that strategic thinking and strategic decision making are importantly concerned with human cognition, human decisions, and human behavior, it makes eminent sense to bring some balance in the strategy field by complementing the extant emphasis on the “objective"" economics-based view with substantive attention to the “subjective” individual-oriented perspective. This calls for more focused inquiries into the role and nature of the individual strategy actors, and their cognitions and behaviors, in the strategy research enterprise. For the purposes of this book series, behavioral strategy would be broadly construed as covering all aspects of the role of the strategy maker in the entire strategy field. The scholarship relating to behavioral strategy is widely believed to be dispersed in diverse literatures. These existing contributions that relate to behavioral strategy within the overall field of strategy has been known and perhaps valued by most scholars all along, but were not adequately appreciated or brought together as a coherent sub-field or as a distinct perspective of strategy. This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship. More importantly, the book series will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for the growing scholarship in behavioral strategy. In particular, the volumes in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models (dealing with all behavioral aspects), significant practical problems of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with potential for wider application of behavioral strategy. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the subject of behavioral strategy.Behavioral Strategy for Competitive Advantage contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research. The 8 chapters in this volume deal with a number of significant issues relating to how behavioral strategy may serve to create competitive advantage, covering topics such as decision change timing, top management regulatory focus, cognitive foundations of pricing decisions, short-termism in HRM, and the effects of managerial role enactments on alliance performance. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the role of behavioral strategy in enhancing competitive advantage.Table of Contents About the Book Series by T. K. Das. In Search of a Last Straw: An Exploratory Study of Decision Change Timing and Triggers, Katsuhiko Shimizu. How CEO and CFO Regulatory Focus Interact to Shape the Firm’s Corporate Strategy, Guoli Chen, Philipp Meyer-Doyle, and Wei Shi. Cognitive Foundations of Competitive Advantage Through Pricing, Burak Cem Konduk. Incumbent Behavior and Competitive Strategy Paradigm Shift, Tomomi Hamada and Tsutomu Kobashi. Explaining Short-Termism in Human Resource Management Decision Making, Juil Lee and Sang-Joon Kim. The Effect of Alliance Managers’ Role Enactments on Alliance Performance Under Conditions of Misalignment, Jeffrey L. Cummings and Dave Luvison. Civil Engineers’ Motivators and National Culture, Atilla Damci, David Arditi, and Gul Polat. A Behavioral View of Business Modeling, Arash Najmaei. About the Contributors. Index.
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Information Age Publishing Behavioral Strategy for Competitive Advantage
Book SynopsisBehavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and technology. The key roles of psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral decision making in the theory and practice of strategy have yet to be comprehensively grasped. Given that strategic thinking and strategic decision making are importantly concerned with human cognition, human decisions, and human behavior, it makes eminent sense to bring some balance in the strategy field by complementing the extant emphasis on the “objective"" economics-based view with substantive attention to the “subjective” individual-oriented perspective. This calls for more focused inquiries into the role and nature of the individual strategy actors, and their cognitions and behaviors, in the strategy research enterprise. For the purposes of this book series, behavioral strategy would be broadly construed as covering all aspects of the role of the strategy maker in the entire strategy field. The scholarship relating to behavioral strategy is widely believed to be dispersed in diverse literatures. These existing contributions that relate to behavioral strategy within the overall field of strategy has been known and perhaps valued by most scholars all along, but were not adequately appreciated or brought together as a coherent sub-field or as a distinct perspective of strategy. This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship. More importantly, the book series will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for the growing scholarship in behavioral strategy. In particular, the volumes in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models (dealing with all behavioral aspects), significant practical problems of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with potential for wider application of behavioral strategy. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the subject of behavioral strategy.Behavioral Strategy for Competitive Advantage contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research. The 8 chapters in this volume deal with a number of significant issues relating to how behavioral strategy may serve to create competitive advantage, covering topics such as decision change timing, top management regulatory focus, cognitive foundations of pricing decisions, short-termism in HRM, and the effects of managerial role enactments on alliance performance. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the role of behavioral strategy in enhancing competitive advantage.Table of Contents About the Book Series by T. K. Das. In Search of a Last Straw: An Exploratory Study of Decision Change Timing and Triggers, Katsuhiko Shimizu. How CEO and CFO Regulatory Focus Interact to Shape the Firm’s Corporate Strategy, Guoli Chen, Philipp Meyer-Doyle, and Wei Shi. Cognitive Foundations of Competitive Advantage Through Pricing, Burak Cem Konduk. Incumbent Behavior and Competitive Strategy Paradigm Shift, Tomomi Hamada and Tsutomu Kobashi. Explaining Short-Termism in Human Resource Management Decision Making, Juil Lee and Sang-Joon Kim. The Effect of Alliance Managers’ Role Enactments on Alliance Performance Under Conditions of Misalignment, Jeffrey L. Cummings and Dave Luvison. Civil Engineers’ Motivators and National Culture, Atilla Damci, David Arditi, and Gul Polat. A Behavioral View of Business Modeling, Arash Najmaei. About the Contributors. Index.
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Information Age Publishing Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances
Book SynopsisManaging Trust in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 10 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of trust in strategic alliances. These issues include the role of trust in value creation and appropriation, the dialectics of trust, control, and risk in multilateral R&D alliances, protecting trustworthiness in open and closed alliance networks, balancing trust and distrust, trust and cost disclosure, trust and control, foreign partner’s trust in international strategic alliances, a multilevel approach to trust, trust in service supply networks, and trust-building in public-private strategic alliances. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing trust in strategic alliances.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances
Book SynopsisManaging Trust in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 10 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of trust in strategic alliances. These issues include the role of trust in value creation and appropriation, the dialectics of trust, control, and risk in multilateral R&D alliances, protecting trustworthiness in open and closed alliance networks, balancing trust and distrust, trust and cost disclosure, trust and control, foreign partner’s trust in international strategic alliances, a multilevel approach to trust, trust in service supply networks, and trust-building in public-private strategic alliances. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing trust in strategic alliances.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Technology Market Transactions: Auctions,
Book SynopsisWithin the open innovation paradigm, firms need to operate efficiently in markets for technology. This book presents original research on technology transactions, market intermediaries and, specifically, the role of auctions as a novel transaction model for patented technologies. Frank Tietze delivers an in-depth discussion of the impact of empirical results upon transaction cost theory, and in so doing, provides the means for better understanding technology transaction processes in general, and auctions in particular. Substantiating transaction cost theory with empirical auction data, the author goes on to explore how governance structures need to be designed for effective distributed innovation processes. He concludes that the auction mechanism is a viable transaction model, and illustrates that the auction design, as currently operated by market intermediaries, requires thorough adjustments. Various options for possible improvements are subsequently prescribed. The theoretical facets of this book will strongly appeal to business economists, while its practical implications will provide an illuminating read for both academics and practitioners in the fields of innovation and intellectual property. Revealing empirically substantiated technology prices, this book will also prove to be of great interest to policy makers for further developing the markets for technology.Trade Review'This study of technology auctions is long overdue. The book provides a better understanding of intermediaries, and their role and impact in markets for technology. Both scholars and managers will find it insightful.' --Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University, Italy'From this book, managers, academics and innovation policy makers will all benefit from new insights into the complex relationships between external technology exploitation strategies, patents, technology trade and open innovation processes. The convincing evidence - drawn from a dataset of technology auctions - helps firms to understand which of their patents are suitable for auction, and also provides guidance to intermediaries to help improve the auction models. The data presented in this book contributes to further price transparency on technology markets and hence to their further development.' --Hugo Tschirky, ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 2. Research Methodology Part II: Technology Transactions and Auctions 3. A Firm Perspective on Technology Transactions 4. Technology Market Intermediaries 5. Auctions for Technology Transactions 6. Technology Properties 7. Transaction Cost Theory Part III: An Empirical Study of Technology Auctions 8. Methodological Approaches 9. Auction Governance Structures 10. Analysis of Auctioned Technologies 11. Discussion of Results 12. Conclusions, Implications, and Research Recommendations Annexes References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Recent Developments in the Economics of Science
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the most important contributions of the last decade in the fields of science and innovation, demonstrating the key relationship between the two. Early chapters emphasize the intrinsic characteristics of knowledge as an economic activity, and later chapters document the importance of science as an input to technology and innovation. This continuum has pushed the field of economics to investigate in detail the processes that shaped the generation, dissemination, and exploitation of technological knowledge.The ideas of nearly fifty eminent researchers are assembled in this volume. Students of the field at all stages of their careers will benefit from reading this collection.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Albert N. Link and Cristiano Antonelli PART I OVERVIEW: MODELS OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 1. Cristiano Antonelli (2009), ‘The Economics of Innovation: From the Classical Legacies to the Economics of Complexity’ 2. Benoît Godin (2006), ‘The Linear Model of Innovation: The Historical Construction of an Analytical Framework’ 3. Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson (2004), ‘Science as a Map in Technological Search’ PART II THE EVOLVING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE 4. Robin Cowan, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray (2000), ‘The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness’ 5. J.S. Metcalfe (2002), ‘Knowledge of Growth and the Growth of Knowledge’ 6. Cristiano Antonelli (2007), ‘The System Dynamics of Collective Knowledge: From Gradualism and Saltationism to Punctuated Change’ PART III MARKETS FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION 7. Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri and Alfonso Gambardella (2001), ‘Markets for Technology and their Implications for Corporate Strategy’ 8. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (2002), ‘Some Simple Economics of Open Source’ 9. Lionel Nesta and Pier Paola Saviotti (2005), ‘Coherence of the Knowledge Base and the Firm’s Innovative Performance: Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry’ 10. Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby (2001), ‘Capturing Technological Opportunity Via Japan’s Star Scientists: Evidence from Japanese Firms’ Biotech Patents and Products’ 11. Michelle Gittelman and Bruce Kogut (2003), ‘Does Good Science Lead to Valuable Knowledge? Biotechnology Firms and the Evolutionary Logic of Citation Patterns’ PART IV MARKETS FOR SCIENTISTS 12. James S. Dietz, Ivan Chompalov, Barry Bozeman, Eliesh O’Neil Lane and Jongwon Park (2000), ‘Using the Curriculum Vita to Study the Career Paths of Scientists and Engineers: An Exploratory Assessment’ 13. Paul M. Romer (2001), ‘Should the Government Subsidize Supply or Demand in the Market for Scientists and Engineers?’ 14. Monica Gaughan and Stephane Robin (2004), ‘National Science Training Policy and Early Scientific Careers in France and the United States’ 15. Benjamin F. Jones (2009), ‘The Burden of Knowledge and the “Death of the Renaissance Man”: Is Innovation Getting Harder?’ PART V R&D INVESTMENTS IN INNOVATION 16. Bruno Cassiman and Reinhilde Veugelers (2002), ‘R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence from Belgium’ 17. Gadi Barlevy (2007), ‘On the Cyclicality of Research and Development’ PART VI INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS 18. Bruce Kogut (2000), ‘The Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure’ 19. Cristiano Antonelli (2008), ‘Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: The Convergence of Directed Technological Change and the Emergence of Innovation Systems’ PART VII INSTITUTIONS TO SUPPORT INNOVATION 20. Sean M. Hackett and David M. Dilts (2004), ‘A Real Options-Driven Theory of Business Incubation’ 21. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2007), ‘The Economics of University Research Parks’ 22. Christine A. Gulbranson and David B. Audretsch (2008), ‘Proof of Concept Centers: Accelerating the Commercialization of University Innovation’ PART VIII UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 23. Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby (2001), ‘Proofs and Prototypes for Sale: The Licensing of University Inventions’ 24. Stuart D. Allen, Albert N. Link and Dan T. Rosenbaum (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship and Human Capital: Evidence of Patenting Activity from the Academic Sector’ 25. Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding and Toby Stuart (2007), ‘The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities?’ 26. Paula E. Stephan, Shiferaw Gurmu, Albert J. Sumell and Grant Black (2007), ‘Who’s Patenting in the University? Evidence from the Survey of Doctoral Recipients’ 27. Saul Lach and Mark Schankerman (2008), ‘Incentives and Invention in Universities’ PART IX PUBLIC SUPPORT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 28. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2001), ‘Public / Private Partnerships: Stimulating Competition in a Dynamic Market’ 29. Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson (2001), ‘Technology as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data’ 30. Wesley M. Cohen, Richard R. Nelson and John P. Walsh (2002), ‘Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D’ 31. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2009), ‘Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government-sponsored Research and Development: Would a Prediction Market Improve the Performance of the SBIR Programme?’ PART X PUBLIC POLICIES TOWARD SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 32. Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner (2001), ‘Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Policy and the Commercialization of National Laboratory Technologies’ 33. Pierre Mohnen and Lars-Hendrik Röller (2005), ‘Complementarities in Innovation Policy’ 34. Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2005), ‘A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy’
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