Contemporary Management of Innovation: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction New Tendencies in Society. The Management of Innovation and Innovation Research....Pages 1-5
The Rise and Fall of Management of Innovation. The Transformation of a Concept and of Management Practice in the Knowledge Economy....Pages 6-20
From R&D Management to Management of Innovation. Research on the Organizational Factor, Trends, Mainstream and Hidden Treasures....Pages 21-38
Introduction Diffusion Processes in the Firms and in the Territory....Pages 39-46
Co-publishing and Innovation. Bioscience Defies a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Definition....Pages 47-68
Agglomeration or Cross-border ICT Cluster? The Öresund Region....Pages 69-88
Innovation and Firm Consumption. A New Perspective?....Pages 89-109
Innovation and Diffusion of Site-specific Crop Management....Pages 110-124
Introduction The Organizational or ‘Soft’ Aspects of Innovation....Pages 125-130
Do Network Structures Follow Innovation Strategy? Chandler Revisited with Learning as an Intermediary Variable....Pages 131-146
Strategic Reflexivity as a Framework for Understanding Development in Modern Firms. How the Environment Drives Innovation....Pages 147-166
Innovation as Institutional Change. A Complexity Approach....Pages 167-180
Towards a Better Measurement of the Soft Side of Innovation. First Results of an Experiment Aimed at Measuring Non-technological Innovation Using an Adapted Innovation Survey in the Netherlands....Pages 181-202
Introduction Information, Knowledge and Appropriability....Pages 203-207
The Governance of Technological Knowledge. To Use or Sell....Pages 208-229
Prizes as Incentives. Reflections on a Century o f Aviation Contests....Pages 230-247
Patent Policies of Small Danish Firms in Three Industries....Pages 248-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-268