Successful innovation-the key to competitive growth and profit-rests on disciplined management of the innovation process, from idea inception to customer service. This book answers, first, the key questions: Why innovate? What to innovate? How to innovate? and Who innovates? It then provides ten...

In today's global village, every manager is a global manager. Even if your business is putatively 'local', with no sales abroad, you still probably face competitors in other countries. Smartonomics</strong> provides global managers with a simple, powerful set of macroeconomic tools, which have been...

This paper reports on the first large-sample survey of management attitudes among over 1,400 Russian mid-level managers and 740 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). We find that while CEOs focus on knowledge of finances, company operations and legislation, as ideal CEO’s qualities, mid-level...

Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This title shows you how! The book provides a proven method for generating world-changing ideas. It empowers individuals who have given up on their innate creativity, who believe that they have lost their creative powers through...

'Frenkel and Maital provide a ground-breaking deeply-delving study of innovation systems, offering guidance for decision-making practitioners that links theory with case-based learning opportunities.'--Michael Radnor, Chairman and co-founder, Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium...

Foran objective function, how should each argument be assigned itsappropriate role in the change of the objective function, whenthe arguments are interrelated? In this paper, it is shown thatthe commonly used approaches may lead to results contradictoryto straightforward economic reasoning, and...

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on demand-driven innovation, using a generic national innovation ecosystem map as a unifying framework. We organize the literature review around four key innovation dimensions and seven related demand-driven processes. Our review...

This book comprises, in one compact volume, cutting-edge research in behavioral economics and economic psychology, published mainly during the past five years. The judicious selection of articles examines the subject from a variety of perspectives and includes papers on the historical origins...