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Focuses on scientific and technological challenges, ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. This book aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools needed to design and implement an effective business model customized for the needs of research intensive organizations.

Based on empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work presents a literature on bureaucracy and innovation. It also offers a model of bureaucracy, capable of both apprehending its functional organization and its continuous and ongoing modifications and changes to adapt to external conditions.

Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides an account of how new products are brought to market. It offers insight into the organization of product innovation processes in the financial services sector and provides guidelines for their improvement.

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This title studies these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about technology and uses, and how these are developed into products and embedded in health care practices.

Offers insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labor and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics.

Promotes our understanding of the implications of environmental issues in new product development. Through an empirical study in the human-powered vehicle sector, this book examines how and to what extent the environmental ambition of product developers and managers influences the way new products and services are developed.

Identifies the important barriers to user-innovation. This book evaluates the democratization of innovation argument by assessing the main legal, economic, technological and societal barriers to user-innovation and proposing alternative possibilities. It offers strategies for minimizing factors that inhibit and stifle the spread of the phenomenon.

Provides an understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services. This book consists of contributions focusing on theory, research and practise in the field of innovation, management and entrepreneurship.

Focuses on customer-related proactive behaviour in the study of radical innovation development, combining a thorough theoretical discussion with detailed international case studies, considering the role of proactivity in five firms.

The US service sector accounts for a significant share of Gross Domestic Product (78.9 percent of GDP in 2002). Historically, the service sector was viewed as having little or no productivity growth and an inability to innovate. This book aims to provide a model for innovation in the service sector.

Encompassing the politicized process of learning between companies and universities of differing culture and status responding to policy incentives, this book compares the implementation of 'knowledge transfer' policies in three modern industrial contexts, using case studies in the UK, USA and Japan.

This volume gathers researchers from economics, business studies, organization studies, medicine, social psychology, occupational health, pedagogics, and sociology to put particular work in both public and private sectors and education in both academic and vocational settings at the focus of the emerging digitalized platform economy.

This book addresses frugal innovations that have never been accessible to the public. The book's main themes and objectives are global food security, consumer and industrial products, ethics and sustainability. affordable, essential services and organizational design.

Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies.

In this book, the editors unite a diverse array of empirical contributions around a few key themes that collectively make the case for a new, forward-looking innovation agenda aimed at addressing persistent challenges and exploiting emerging opportunities in Brazil.

We have witnessed a rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound international implications these technological changes, have for workers and business organizations.

Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. The purpose of this book is to put forward a number of keys for understanding the ongoing dynamics for working professionals in the field of innovation.

The book uses data from a range of European countries as well as comparisons with Asia and the USA in examining the 'consequences', or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level.

The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation. This is achieved by questioning how investment activities affect the unfolding of innovations and in turn are affected by it.

The central theme of this book is an evolutionary perspective on the dynamics and the rise of the social enterprise in Europe. This evolutionary perspective can both be used in an economic as well as a social longitudinal analysis of changing contexts and entrepreneurial practices.

This book provides valuable insights into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) though a thorough examination of Saudi Vision 2030, a 15-year economic plan by the KSA to diversify its economy from a heavy dependence on hydrocarbon to knowledge-based resources.