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9781567204964

Managing Path-Breaking Innovations

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    9781567204964

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    1567204961

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-30
  • Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
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Summary

Path-breaking innovations are about instigating fundamental changes in people, organizations, communities, and economies. They are complex, continuous, and evolutionary processes that take considerable time, resources, and the efforts of many individuals and organizations to be accomplished succesfully. Representing distinct departures from existing practices, they differ from other types of innovation, such as product extensions and incremental improvements. By examining path-breaking innovation processes through in-depth analysis of science and technology initiatives at CERN-ATLAS, Airbus, and in stem cell research, the authors explore and illuminate how profound changes in product, process, and service can be explained and managed. Covering such issues as organizational culture, types of knowledge, and large-scale project management and resource distribution, the authors consider the practical implications of radical innovation for scientific, organizational, institutional, and political leaders concerned with channeling innovation toward economic growth.

Author Biography

Markus Nordberg is the Resources Coordinator of the ATLAS project at CERN, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figuresp. vii
Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. xix
Science and Radical Changep. 1
Philosophy of Production and Workp. 21
Strategies and Collaboration of Big Science and Technology Projectsp. 53
The Changed Environment for Radical Innovationsp. 102
Innovation and Production in the Twenty-first Century: The Spatial Dimensionp. 142
Leadership and Creativity in Path-breaking Innovationsp. 178
Funding and Commodification: Managing Resources for Path-breaking Innovationsp. 228
Future Scenarios for Knowledge Constructionp. 267
Notesp. 289
Selected Bibliographyp. 291
Indexp. 319
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