This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted...

This book introduces readers to co-creation --- a complex, value-based, context-driven and collaborative effort to develop new paradigms, products and services to satisfy human wants. Co-creation is built not only around the perceptions of challenges, cause-and-effect relationships and...

Reflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures. By investigating the impact that inter-organizational collaboration...

Vorwort -- Die Entstehungsgeschichte dieses Werkes -- „Der Rhythmus der Innovation“ oder: was Manager von Künstlern lernen können -- Einleitung: Das Buch zusammengefasst für Leser mit wenig Zeit -- Die Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts -- Vom Ende der Planbarkeit oder: Die neuen Bilder des 21....

Innovation management is commonly understood as a central system and function of a firm’s ability to keep up with developments in the market. Markus Sattler reviews the predictors of successful innovation management on firm level with a meta-analytic approach. His findings suggest that the...

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...

Employing a three-dimensional approach, this book discusses inclusive innovation for socio-economic growth and development, and the implications for human security within the context of developing and emerging economies. Focusing on a new and innovative area of research, Inclusive Innovation for...

This book deals with the creation of local innovation systems (LIS) in emerging countries. The authors analyze the role of the government, firms and research centers in the formation of LIS. Special attention is paid to the manner in which different leading actors implement their LIS development...

Innovationen, Dienstleistungen und das Schwellenländer-Geschäft gelten für die deutsche Industrie als wichtigste Wachstumsträger der Zukunft. Dieses Buch stellt erstmalig ein Konzept vor, das Aufgaben des Innovationsmanagements, des Service-Aufbaus im Industriegeschäft und der Expansion in...