Showing papers on "Open innovation published in 1998"

Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation and Profits

Abstract: Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation and Profits Afuah, Allan, 403 pp., New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. Reviewed by Subodh P. Kulkarni, Assistant Professor in School of Business at Howard University, Washington, D.C. In this book, Allan Afuah addresses a topic of fundamental interest to practicing managers and researchers -- "innovation management." Although the significance of innovation is widely acknowledged, the different streams of literature that currently exist seem to be oblivious to one another. Many times, these ideas seem inconsistent. This includes the definition of the term "innovation" itself. Therefore, a work that truly integrates the different views on innovation is much needed. This book fills that void by synthesizing the economics and management literature on innovation. This book is broadly divided into four parts. Part I consists of Chapters 2, 3, and 4. It explores some of the static and dynamic models that have been developed in the past to explain why some firms are more successful at innovation than others. Understanding what it takes to profit from an innovation requires exploring four questions: (1) How different is the firm's stock of knowledge from the existing firms'? (2) To whom is innovation radical? (3) What allows some firms to use this knowledge to offer low cost or differentiated products or services better than others? (4) When in the innovation life cycle does a firm want to exploit it? The author further argues that the ability of a firm to offer low cost or differentiated products or services is a function of its ability to perform value chain activities. Here the author draws on the "resource-based view of the firm'.`, that is well known in strategic management. Finally, the author explores the sources of innovation and what it takes to transfer innovations effectively from their sources to exploitation sites. Part II builds on the foundations laid earlier in the book. It first addresses the question of why some firms have difficulties in recognizing the potential of an innovation. According to the author, this is partly because of the way firms collect and process information. Next, the book addresses the uncertainty associated with innovation. This uncertainty can be largely resolved through a careful analysis of innovation trends on a firm's part. Even after dealing with technological uncertainty, a firm is often left wondering where it should position itself along the value chain (e.g., upstream or downstream). Chapter 7 suggests a three-step process to determine a profit site. In Chapters 8 and 9, the author explores the role of a firm's local environment in its innovation effectiveness. …

Blueprint for 21st Century Innovation Management

Abstract: This paper argues that the foundation for a new economic order has been laid. It is one that rests on the value of human potential and how it might be systematically leveraged for the benefit of mankind. The challenge is to determine the integral linkage between human potential and economic performance. This will be accomplished by creating a worldwide innovation vision and culture, supported by innovation tools, techniques and metrics.

Globalization, growth, and governance : creating an innovative economy

Abstract: Introduction PART I. GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY 1. Production Principles, Organizational Capabilities, and Technology Management 2. Foreign Direct Investment: Towards Co-operative Institutional Arrangements Between the North and the South? 3. Innovation and Technology Transfer Within Multinational Firms 4. New Technology and Jobs PART II. INNOVATION AND GROWTH 5. Markets, Competition, and Innovation 6. The Determinants of Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises 7. Innovation Networks: The View from the Inside 8. Innovation in Consumption and Economic Growth PART III. GOVERNANCE, BUSINESS PERFORMANCE, AND PUBLIC POLICY 9. Innovation and Corporate Structures: USA and Japan 10. Sustainable Prosperity, Corporate Governance, and Innovation in Europe 11. Organizational Learning and International Competition 12. Technology Policy: Strategic Failures and the Need for a New Direction

Innovation in services: theoretical issues.

Abstract: This report consists of six independent papers given over to different theoretical issues regarding innovation in services. All these papers were written as part of the TSER-SI4S project. They are either based upon empirical materials gathered during the project or they feed it with theoretical background and literature survey. The first paper (« Innovation in services and the attendant myths ») raises the following question: « is service innovation special? ». It looks into the nature and the origin of different old or new myths concerning services and innovation in services (the myth of the residual sector, the myths of low productivity and low capital intensity, the myth of the servant society, the myth of lack of innovation, etc.). The second paper (« Neo-schumpeterian perspectives for innovation in services: a survey » with Camal Gallouj) and the third one (« Beyond technological innovation : trajectories and varieties of services innovation ») are devoted to a survey of the literature on innovation in services. Paper 2 examines services from the perspectives of neo-Schumpeterian theories of innovation. Its goal is to look to what extent neo-Schumpeterian analyses help take into account innovation in services. Paper 3 aims at displaying the variety of forms and trajectories of innovation in services, beyond technological innovation. It classifies the attendant literature into two categories: - service-oriented analyses, focusing on service specificities; - integrated approaches aiming at designing analyses and theories of innovation suitable for both goods and services. The three other papers are given over to the deepening of certain theoretical issues raised previously. The fourth paper (« Innovating in reverse: services and the reverse product cycle ») proposes an assessment of Barras’ model both at a theoretical level and on the basis of the empirical materials gathered during the SI4S project. The goal of the fifth paper (« Innovation as a loosely coupled system in services » with Jon Sundbo) is to assess whether innovation in services can be described as a steady and coherent system. It displays and analyses different models of innovation organisation in services. The last paper (« Innovation in services », with Olivier Weinstein) aims at laying the foundations of a theory of innovation in services on the basis of the definition of the product or service as a system of characteristics.