This is an ideal introduction to the processes and issues of managing technological innovation and the development of new products. It offers students a contemporary view of innovation management that focuses on the links between groups.
Most of the significant inventions of the past two centuries have not come from flashes of inspiration but from collaborative endeavours. This book argues that innovation is a management process that continues to be at the forefront of economic and political debate about how to improve the competitiveness of economies and firms.