While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has … been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice … nature of management innovation? How can we categorize or make sense of the enormous variety of management innovations that …

In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in …

Strong market orientation is essential for innovation success!” Although both academics and market research … innovation strategies. Due to their focus on what is currently on offer in the marketplace, customers primarily demand so … research can alone allow innovation management to develop attractive search fields for radical innovations and if it can also …

, and managers often indicate the front end as being one of the greatest weaknesses in product innovation. Therefore, it is … surprising that only little research has treated the so called "fuzzy front end" of innovation. In this paper we discuss if …

Government policy emphasises five ‘drivers’ of productivity: competition, enterprise, innovation, investment and …

Increasingly universities are seen to be one of the key actors in national innovation systems (Bessant & Venables,2008 … & Walsh, 2007; Salter & Martin, 2001). The movement of many firms towards more open anddistributed models of innovation … creates substantial opportunities for universities to increase the breadth and depthof their role in the innovation system …

This report summarises the research findings from a study into how the successfulintroduction of innovation in … organisations seeking tobecome more effective at the kind of radical innovation that provides sustainablecompetitive advantage …

In a fast moving world, one of the biggest challenges facing organisations is dealingwith discontinuous innovation (DI …). Most organisations understand that innovation isan organisational imperative. They learn to listen to customers and … competitors.The ability to deal with this steady state type of innovation – the constant storms ofchange within an industry – is …

US. To close this gap, it is widelyaccepted that the UK must move towards competing on value and innovation ratherthan on … low costs. So how can the UK boost innovation? How can companiesbecome better and more effective innovators?A number of … factors affect the level of innovation in organisations. One of the mostimportant is leadership. This report is an overview of …