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Serencipitous and Strategic Innovation A Systems Approach to Managing Science-Based Innovation
Shantha Liyanage
ISBN: 1-56720-487-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-487-2
286 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2005
List Price: $157.95 (UK Sterling Price: £108.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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 innovation—so often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginning—is 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 professionals—medical doctors, innovation policy analysts, and academics in business management—Shantha 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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
    List of Figures
    Acknowledgements
    Preface
    Four Pillars of Innovation: Complexity and Systems Thinking by Shantha Liyanage
    Leading with Innovation by Shantha Liyanage and Alan J. Jones
    Growth Through Proximity in Innovation by Shantha Liyanage with Marie Wilson and Alan J. Jones
    Aggregating Systems of Innovation by Alan J. Jones and Shantha Liyanage
    Capacity Building in Health Innovation by Stephen Hunyor and Shantha Liyanage
    Relating and Innovating: Human and Cultural Barriers to Innovation by Peter Gluckman and Shantha Liyanage
    The Business of Science-Based Innovation by Shantha Liyanage and Jan Annerstedt
    Synthesis--All Contributors
    Bibliograpy
    Index
    About the Authors
About the Author: Shantha Liyanage leads the Technology, Innovation and Knowledge Management program (TEKIM) at the Business School of The University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has worked in industry, government, and academic institutions in the areas of knowledge management, innovation, and technology, including research and faculty positions at the University of Wollongong and the University of Queensland in Australia. He has extensive consultancy experience with various Government and International Development Agencies such as the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, UNESCO, and AusAid, and has published widely in the area of innovation, knowledge, and technology management.
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