<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...

Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...

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...

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...

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data files for the period 1997-2008, three types of...

This paper examines policy measures that foster the creation of innovations with high inherent potential and that simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form of highly valued products. In so doing, we...