The paper describes innovative microfinance products that combine flexibility features with financial discipline. Those … review shows that service providers are introducing various types of flexibility into financial contracts and that … flexibility can be combined with a variety of disciplining mechanisms, such as direct screening and monitoring of clients …

Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter … 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation …This book focuses on the process of commercialisation and innovation management in small firms. Although …

Chapter 1: The Unpredictable Environment and Role of Innovation -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneurs, the Innovation Process … and the Management of Uncertainty -- Chapter 3: The Necessity and the Drawbacks of Product and Process Innovation … how uncertainty can shape product innovation, process innovation, and the new product development process by covering …

The literature of innovation is full of calls to become more creative and inspiring: but it has less to say on the … thinking and practice in innovation, strategy, marketing, design, intellectual property and finance …Breakthroughs in value -- Market-led innovation -- Outsmarting the competition -- Designing better customer experiences …

This book approaches the subject of innovation management as a strategic process. It is organized to mirror the …