Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Innovation management: perspectives from strategy, product, process and human resource research / Vida Škudienė, Jason Li-Ying and Fabian Bernhard -- Part II: Innovation management strategy -- 2. Innovation management through technology licensing in China /...

Tatjana-Xenia Puhan demonstrates that ambidexterity need not necessarily be implemented in one single organization but can also be realised in a network of associated organizations. She develops the concept of think tanks as organizations which concentrate on radical innovations while their...

Larger-scale projects are becoming more common throughout the social sciences and humanities, housed in centres, institutes and programmes. Talented researchers find themselves faced with new challenges to act as managers and leaders rather than as individual scholars. They are responsible for...

International Management of Research and Development brings together the most influential contributions to managing, organising and coordinating R&D and innovation on a global scale. In addition to papers on the fundamental principles, trends and drivers of international R&D, it covers...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...

What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? Based on empirical research with hundreds of R&D executives from more than 80 companies amd 1000 R&D laboratories, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 22 best-practice companies...