The Management of Innovation and Technology

Informationen zum Autor John Howells grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, otherwise known as Silicon Valley, and stumbled onto a carrer in the computer industry while pursuing his passion for playing live rock and roll. He has worked for NASA, Silicon Graphics, Apple, among others. Currently he spends his time writing and publishing books, as well as producing music on his own label, Quake Records. Klappentext `A great strength of the book is the extensive and detailed integration of rich case study analyses into the main flow of the argument. Many apparently well known cases are revisited and critically assessed to draw clear and often contrary to popular belief lessons. This is a highly original and commendable feature of this text. It provides an unusually strong integration between theory and examples. And there is no doubt of the relevance of the examples: they are not inserted as an afterthought, but are intrinsically part of the development of the thinking' - Professor James Fleck, Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, University of Edinburgh Management School Zusammenfassung Analyses a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. This book covers such topics as: the social context for individual acts of creative insight; the development of the technology-market relationship; the management of R&D and technological standards; and! technological competition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Technological Innovation Invention, Science, R&D and Concepts of Use and Market Patterns in Technological Development and the Creation of Technological Standards Competition and Innovation as Substitution Threat Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Finance - Techniques, Institutions and Innovation Innovation and the Organisation of Technical Expertise and Work The State and the Management of Technology

Klappentext

`A great strength of the book is the extensive and detailed integration of rich case study analyses into the main flow of the argument. Many apparently well known cases are revisited and critically assessed to draw clear and often contrary to popular belief lessons. This is a highly original and commendable feature of this text. It provides an unusually strong integration between theory and examples. And there is no doubt of the relevance of the examples: they are not inserted as an afterthought, but are intrinsically part of the development of the thinking' - Professor James Fleck, Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, University of Edinburgh Management School

Zusammenfassung
Analyses a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. This book covers such topics as: the social context for individual acts of creative insight; the development of the technology-market relationship; the management of R&D and technological standards; and, technological competition.

Inhalt

Technological Innovation
Invention, Science, R&D and Concepts of Use and Market
Patterns in Technological Development and the Creation of Technological Standards
Competition and Innovation as Substitution Threat
Intellectual Property Law and Innovation
Finance - Techniques, Institutions and Innovation
Innovation and the Organisation of Technical Expertise and Work
The State and the Management of Technology