Managing Technology and Innovation: An Introduction

by Verburg; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415362290
• ISBN10: 0415362296
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Modern technology and innovation are vital to the success of all companies, be they hi-tech firms or companies seeming unaffected by technology and innovation, established firms or business start-ups. Managing Technology and Innovationfocuses on understanding technology as a corporate resource, covering product development, design of systems and the managerial aspects of new and high technology. Topics covered include: * The internal organization of high technology firms * The management of technology in the society * Managing innovation * Dilemmas and strategies The wide-ranging experience of the teachers and experts who have contributed to this book has resulted in an integrated, multi-disciplinary, textbook that provides an introductory overview to managing technology and innovation in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. ix
List of boxes	p. x
About the authors	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
General Introduction	p. 1
Management of technology: setting the scene	p. 3
The Internal Organization of High-Technology Firms	p. 21
Introduction	p. 21
Design of technological firms	p. 23
Human Resource Management for advanced technology	p. 43
Cost and financial accounting in high-technology firms	p. 64
Foundations for successful high-technology marketing	p. 84
The Management of Technology in the Society	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Managing the dynamics of technology in modern day society	p. 109
Development and diffusion of breakthrough communication technologies	p. 130
Forecasting the market potential of new products	p. 149
The innovating firm in a societal context: labor-management relations and labor productivity	p. 170
Complex decision-making in multi-actor systems	p. 192
Managing Innovation	p. 207
Introduction	p. 207
Corporate strategy and technology	p. 209
Innovation in context: from R&D management to innovation networks	p. 227
Operation management with System Dynamics	p. 248
Managing knowledge processes	p. 263
Dilemmas and Strategies	p. 287
Introduction	p. 287
Making the impossible possible: controlling innovation	p. 289
When failure is not an option: managing complex technologies under intensifying interdependencies	p. 306
Managing performance in firms	p. 322
Management dilemmas and strategies in practice	p. 335
Index	p. 355
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