What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? Based on empirical research with hundreds of R&D executives from more than 80 companies amd 1000 R&D laboratories, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 22 best-practice companies...

Contents: Part I -- Conceptualisation 1. Technological embeddedness as a determinant of techno-entrepreneurship / Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee -- Part II: New categories of entrepreneurship -- 2. Reverse innovation: Review of a decade / Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue -- 3. Modes and routines...