<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/worldscientific#p/u/0/motNYu4eTFw">Video</a> ¡ª Prof. Eugene Fitzgerald talks about the process of innovation and introduces <i>Inside Real Innovation</i>. <i>Read more about the authors' interview/article with <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101201/mit-eugene-fitzgerald-understanding-innovation.html#">Inc.</a> and <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/01/31/why-the-government-needs-to-invest-in-innovation/">Forbes.</a></i> This breakthrough book gives a ground-floor view of the innovation process, showing how fundamental innovators...

At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable. Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the set of publicly known states. An innovation is a set of states that are not...

At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable. Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the set of publicly known states. An innovation is a set of states that are not...

Since the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management practices into their organizational culture. This combination of Japanese and Western management practices has been highly successful — Japanese firms are presently at...

Diffusion, or the widespread adoption of innovations, is a critical yet under-researched topic. There is a wide gap between development and successful adoption of an innovation. Therefore, a better understanding of why and how an innovation is adopted can help develop realistic management and...