Understanding innovation: A reorientation -- Basic concepts. Products: What does innovation lead to? -- Process: How … are innovative ideas formed? -- Person: The personal resources that support innovation -- Press: Where the innovation … happens? -- Managing innovation. Paradox: The contradictions of innovation -- Innovation and organizational performance …

Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the … to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations._ The management of innovation is … disruptive innovation (a greater emphasis will be placed on disruptive innovation) and organizations versus networks (greater …