Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in...

Traditionally resources for R and D projects are allocated via planning and budgeting procedures, evaluation methods and hierarchical decision-committees. This book presents resource allocation via internal markets as an alternative to such hierarchical decision procedures. Internal R and D...

Innovation treibt die Wirtschaft -- Unzufrieden mit dem Innovationsmanagement? -- Der Startpunkt: Die Innovationsstrategie -- Innovationsprozess: der große Disziplinierer -- Was sagen der Markt und die Kunden? -- Ideengenerierung -- Wertmaximierung im Innovationszyklus -- Innovationsportfolio:...

In times of global markets, increasing competition and short product life cycles the effective and efficient management of industrial research and development (R&D) activities is of central importance for companies as well as for the whole economy. The efficient allocation of scarce R&D...