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The interaction between internal and external knowledge is crucial for fostering innovation and developing dynamic capabilities. This edited volume explores the relationship between Knowledge Management and Open Innovation, emphasizing the importance of absorptive capacity in organizations. By examining how organizations can effectively absorb and utilize external knowledge, the book aims to enhance understanding of innovation outcomes across various conditions, bridging contemporary interests with traditional concepts.

Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, published by World Scientific, and provides an international, disciplinary approach across its broad coverage of topics. Relevant for both academics and practitioners, this volume answers how organisations can develop innovative approaches from a perspective that encompasses technological advances, changes in the market and individual entrepreneurs.

The book explores the evolution of innovation and entrepreneurship as distinct disciplines, tracing their roots to scholars like Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker. It highlights the divergence in focus, with entrepreneurship concentrating on individual startups and small businesses, while innovation emphasizes corporate research and development. This separation has led to limitations in both fields, as entrepreneurship often overlooks broader systemic influences, and innovation is overly tied to corporate structures. The work calls for a reintegration of these domains for a more comprehensive understanding.

This book draws on a detailed history of a largeGerman company (HELLA ), now active in over 35 countries, employing 34,000 people and with asales turnover of around EURO6,4bn.

Baffle your brain in the most delightful way! This entertaining collection features 100 crosswords sized 11x13 that will test your wits. Each puzzle is bite-sized, so you can complete it in a few minutes while still enjoying a challenge.

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In this book, we invite you on a journey that explores the ways, tools and options for driving service productivity. We take an innovator’s perspectives and look at the tricky challenge of service productivity as a landscape of options for designing the future of services. Case examples, from the airport, hotel, healthcare, and professional service industry, offer insights in the methods used and approaches taken in business practice. Research results provide food for thought and valuable advice on the path towards superior service productivity. Throughout the book we also listen to the views and advices of interviewed experts from academia as well as business practice on how to drive service productivity. A forecast on how service productivity and service innovation might evolve in the future provides us – and hopefully you as a reader – with the necessary food for thought to develop our own understanding of driving service productivity in different business settings. Overall, this book is not a traditional “academic product” that summarises the views of a few, but a co-created offering that profited enormously from the contributions of so many.

Focusing on the nuanced dynamics of open innovation, this book critiques the overly general prescriptions often found in the literature. It highlights that the effectiveness of open innovation is highly context-dependent, varying by sector, firm, and strategy. The authors aim to refine the discourse by offering detailed insights into the specific mechanisms that facilitate successful open innovation, while also addressing its limitations. This work encourages a more contextual understanding of innovation practices, moving beyond simplistic narratives of open versus closed systems.

Focusing on strategic competencies, this book explores how organizations define and differentiate themselves through various related fields, including knowledge management, organizational learning, strategic management, and innovation management. It integrates strategic and knowledge management approaches to capability-building and competency development. The updated third edition features five new chapters that compile the latest research and practices from experts, serving as a core text for Imperial College London's Distance Learning MBA program.