"Innovative firms outperform, in both employment and sales, firms that fail to innovate [1]. We know that those organizations that are consistently successful at managing innovation outperform their peers in terms of growth, financial performance, and employment and that the broader social...

R & D function / F. Frattini, V. Lazzarotti and R. Manzini -- R & D projects / F. Frattini and D. Chiaroni -- R & D people / A. Di Minin and A. Piccaluga -- R & D and financial investors / A. Grandi, B.H. Hall and R. Oriani -- R & D information / S. Morricone and R. Oriani -- Technology platform...

Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the operational and strategic levels._ Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and...

This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...