Books reviewed: Stefan H. Thomke, Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation Richard L. Lynch, John G. Diezemann and James F. Dowling, The Capable Company: Building the Capabilities that Make Strategy Work Georges Haour, Resolving the Innovation Paradox -...

Much of the research on innovation to date has been on the private sector (and, within that, biased towards manufacturing) but the processes involved are equally relevant to the public as well as the private sector. This article looks at how innovation is organized and managed, at the routines...

Research on the innovation process and its effective management has consistently highlighted a set of themes constituting 'good practice'. The limitation of such 'good practice' is that it relates to what might be termed 'steady state' innovation - essentially innovative activity in product and...

A paradox in innovation management is that firms deploying what is generally recognised 'good practice' can find themselves under threat through disruption caused by some form of discontinuity in their operating environment. Routines suited to dealing with 'steady state' innovation differ from...

Front Cover -- Riding the Innovation Wave -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Innovation - An Old Challenge -- The DNA of Innovation -- The 'One-Hundred Club' -- Three Key Elements -- Who Does the Innovating? -- Learning from History -- Introducing Hella --...