Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

, organising and coordinating R&D and innovation on a global scale. In addition to papers on the fundamental principles, trends and … concepts such as knowledge networks, open innovation and virtual innovation. It is a key reference collection for professors … technology and innovation officers keen to develop their corporate R&D more systematically …

Contents: Introduction: Shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancing creativity and innovation research … / Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. Rouse -- Part I: Foundations of creativity and innovation research -- 1. Conducting rigorous … creativity and innovation / Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever -- 4. Creativity and standardization: Tension …

Contents: 1. The new frontier of innovation -- 2. Innovation pioneers - the essential role of users, on-line user … communities and the crowd -- 3. Exploring the changing landscape of Innovation: the rise of users, on-line communities and the … crowd -- 4. Mapping the new world of innovation - the innovation opportunity space -- 5. Defending territory - changing …

Contents: Preface and Introduction / Mitsuru Kodama -- 1. Innovation through boundaries vision and dynamic capabilities … creation perspective / Mitsuru Kodama -- 3. Knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation through boundaries knowledge … - new knowledge from the knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation perspectives / Mitsuru Kodama and Masashi Kimura …

Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both …-asthmatic drugs -- 5. Histamine H2 antagonists -- 6. LHRH analogues -- 7. Three case studies of pharmaceutical innovation in Japan …