World Scientific Reference on Innovation

(In 4 Volumes)

This multi-volume set covers a wide range of topics on innovation, which are all of great interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students. Two unique features of the volume are the large body of global evidence on innovation presented and its consideration of the following timely and important topics in innovation: cybersecurity, open innovation, the globalization of R&D, and university technology transfer. Innovation is a topic of great importance in many fields in business administration, such as management, strategy, operations management, finance, marketing, and accounting, as well as in numerous social science disciplines, including economics, sociology, political science, and psychology. This volume fully reflects such interdisciplinary approaches.

Volume 1 provides extensive global evidence on university technology transfer and innovation partnerships. Volume 2 is focused on the managerial and public policy implications of the globalization of R&D. Volume 3 presents state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical evidence on open innovation. Volume 4 is a comprehensive analysis of cybersecurity. This set is essential reading for those who wish to have a comprehensive understanding of the antecedents and consequences of innovation.

Readership: Students and academics focussing on innovation studies, policymakers , managers in charge of innovation related decisions in companies and general public interested in comprehensive understanding of the antecedents and consequences of innovation.
Key Features:

• The most global volume on innovation
• Covers four salient trends in innovation: university technology transfer, the globalization of R&D, open innovation, and cybersecurity
• Contains numerous prominent authors from leading academic institutions in the US and abroad