Table of Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Product and Process Innovation, Scientific Research, Knowledge Dynamics, and Institutional Change: An Introduction; PART I. PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION; PART II. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: NEW FRAMEWORKS; PART III. KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN CONTEXT; PART IV. INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; Index
Summary
Innovation is a key factor not just in the Research and Design process, but in research, institutions, and society. This research handbook is unique in examining research findings and new theoretical models relating to innovation at a number of analytic levels: projects, organizations, industrial sectors, and society. - ;Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'. This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new approach to the study of innovat
