Serendipitous and Strategic Innovation
A Systems Approach to Managing Science-Based Innovation
- 286 pages
- English
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Serendipitous and Strategic Innovation
A Systems Approach to Managing Science-Based Innovation
About This Book
Innovation is a time-consuming process that involves invention as a beginning and a marketable service or product as an end. But innovation itself, once concluded, is not necessarily a constructive act as some innovations yield positive and some negative results. The way we recognize and develop innovationâso often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginningâis thus a matter of primary importance in today's world where new thoughts and products play such a crucial role in economies across the globe. Nowhere is the general support structure required for success in innovation more starkly illuminated than in the fields of science and medicine, where human well-being is so manifestly at stake.
In this work, which draws together the perspectives of a multidisciplinary group of professionalsâmedical doctors, innovation policy analysts, and academics in business managementâShantha Liyanage and his colleagues provide a thorough examination of the technology innovation process, and display its critical links with organizational functions, so the innovative capacities of organizations can be better prepared to meet the rapid changes of our age.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Four Pillars of Innovation: Complexity and Systems Thinking
- 2 Leading with Innovation
- 3 Growth through Proximity in Innovation
- 4 Aggregating Systems of Innovation
- 5 Capability Building in Health Innovation
- 6 Relating and Innovating: Human and Cultural Barriers to Innovation
- 7 The Business of Science-Based Innovation
- 8 Synthesis
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author and Contributors