Managing Innovation

What Do We Know About Innovation Success Factors?

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.

Contents:

• About the Editors

• List of Contributors

• Introduction — Managing Innovation: What Do We Know About Innovation Success Factors? (Tugrul Daim, Alexander Brem and Joe Tidd)

• Innovation Management:

  • Investigating Organisational Innovativeness: Developing a Multidimensional Formative Measure (Florian Pallas, Florian Böckermann, Oliver Goetz and Kirstin Tecklenburg)
  • Managerial Factors Influencing Success of New Product Development (Sima Sedighadeli and Reza Kachouie)
  • Factors Influencing an Organisation's Ability to Manage Innovation: A Structured Literature Review and Conceptual Model (Marisa Smith, Marco Busi, Peter Ball and Robert Van Der Meer)
  • Predicting New Product Sales: The Post-Launch Performance of 215 Innovators (Alfred Kleinknecht and Gerben Van Der Panne)
  • The Impact of Changing Markets and Competition on the NPD Speed/Market Success Relationship (Murray R Millson and David Wilemon)

• Critical Factors in New Product Development:

  • Innovative Capability, Innovation Strategy and Market Orientation: An Empirical Analysis in Turkish Software Industry (Gülşen Akman and Cengiz Yilmaz)
  • Innovation Success in the Context of Inbound Open Innovation (Philipp Nitzsche, Bernd W Wirtz and Vincent Götel)
  • The Impact of Environmental Uncertainty Dimensions on Organisational Innovativeness: An Empirical Study on SMEs (Cevahir Uzkurt, Rachna Kumar, Halil Semih Kimzan and Hanife Sert)
  • A Study on the Factors That Influence the Fitness Between Technology Strategy and Corporate Strategy (Jin Chen, Yu-Bing He and Xin Jin)

• Tools for New Product Development:

  • Commercialization of Technological Innovations: The Effects of Internal Entrepreneurs and Managerial and Cultural Factors on Public–Private Inter-Organizational Cooperation (Elie Geisler and Giuseppe Turchetti)
  • Assessing Some Important Factors to Reduce Obstacles in Product Innovation (Marcelo Seido Nagano, Juliano Pavanelli Stefanovitz and Tor Guimaraes)
  • Long-Run Dynamics Between Product Life Cycle Length and Innovation Performance in Manufacturing (Markus Plewa)
  • Individual Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Entrepreneurial Success Potential (Wing-Ki Wong, Hong-Man Cheung and Patri K Venuvinod)

• Index

Readership: Students and practitioners in the fields of technology and innovation management.
Key Features:

• This book contains most important publications in the field of technology and innovation management from the recent years