Managing Innovation

PART I: MANAGING FOR INNOVATION

1. Key Issues in Innovation Management

2. Innovation as a Management Process

PART II: TAKING A STRATEGIC APPROACH

3. Developing the Framework for an Innovation Strategy

4. Positions: The National and Competitive Environment

5. Paths: Exploiting Technological Trajectories

6. Processes: Integration for Strategic Learning

PART III: ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE EXTERNAL LINKAGES

7. Learning from Markets

8. Learning through Alliances

PART IV: BUILDING EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS

9. Managing the Internal Processes

10. Learning through Corporate Ventures

PART V: CREATING THE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATION

11. Building the Innovative Organization

12. Creating Innovative New Firms

PART VI: ASSESSING AND IMPROVING INNOVATION MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE

13. An Integrative Approach To Innovation Management

Index

Joe Tidd is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management and Director of Studies at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK, and Visiting Professor at University College London, Copenhagen Business School and the Rotterdam School of Management. He was previously Head of the Management of Innovation Specialization and Director of the Executive MBA Programme at Imperial College, University of London.

He has worked as policy adviser to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), responsible for industrial innovation and advanced technologies, where he developed and launched the annual CBI Innovation Trends Survey, and presented expert evidence to three Select Committee Enquiries held by the House of Commons and House of Lords. He was a researcher for the five-year, $5 million International Motor Vehicle Program organised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA, and has worked on research and consultancy projects on technology and innovation management for consultants Arthur D. Little, CAP Gemini and McKinsey, and numerous technology-based firms, including American Express Technology, Applied Materials, ASML, BOC Edwards, BT, Marconi, National Power, NKT, Nortel Networks and Petrobras.

He is the winner of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contribution to management teaching and research, and the Epton Prize from the R&D Society. He has written five books and more than 70 papers on the management of technology and innovation, the most recent being Service Innovation: Organizational responses to technological opportunities and market imperatives (with Frank Hull), Imperial College Press, 2003, and is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management.

Contact: J.Tidd@sussex.ac.uk

John Bessant is Professor of Innovation Management at the School of Management, Cranfield University. He also