"This book presents new methods and tools (from creativity to engineerying), aimed at promoting and sustaining enterprise innovaion and production improvement. The primary (but not exclusive) focus is on the new approaches, methods, frameworks and tools conceived for enterprise innovation and...

Valuable knowledge emerges increasingly outside of firm boundaries, in particular in public research institutions and universities. The question is how firms organize their interactions with universities effectively to acquire knowledge and apply it successfully. Literature has so far largely...