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The international handbook on innovation

The International Handbook on Innovation is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of what innovation is, how it is measured, how it is developed, how it is managed, and how it affects individuals, companies, societies, and the world as a whole. Leading specialists from around the world, responsible for much of the current research in the field, analyze the multidisciplinary and multifaceted nature of innovation, its types and levels, its criteria, its development, its management, its specificity in various domains and contexts, and societal demands on it. They consider inn
eBook, English, 2003
Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2003
Internet Resources
1 online resource (xxviii, 1171 pages) : illustrations
9780080524849, 9780080441986, 0080524842, 008044198X
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Cover
Contents
Dedication
About the Authors
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Understanding Innovation: Introduction to Some Important Issues
PART II: THE NATURE OF INNOVATION
Chapter 1. The Neurophysiological Basis of Innovation
Chapter 2. On the Nature of Individual Innovation
Chapter 3. Models of Innovation
Chapter 4. Evolutionary Models of Innovation and the Meno Problem
Chapter 5. The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness: Its Implications for Understanding the Nature of Innovation
Chapter 6. Innovation and Strategic Reflexivity: An Evolutionary Approach Applied to Services
Chapter 7. The Nature and Dynamics of Discontinuous and Disruptive Innovations from a Learning and Knowledge Management Perspective
Chapter 8. Profitable Product Innovation: The Critical Success Factors
Chapter 9. Types of Innovations
Chapter 10. Problem Generation and Innovation
Chapter 11. The Role of Flexibility in Innovation
Chapter 12. The Effect of Mood On Creativity in the Innovative Process
Chapter 13. Case Studies of Innovation: Ordinary Thinking, Extraordinary Outcomes
Chapter 14. Innovation and Evolution: Managing Tensions Within and Between the Domains of Theory and Practice
Chapter 15. E-Creativity and E-Innovation
PART III: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN INNOVATIVE ABILITY
Chapter 1. The Art of Innovation: Polymaths and Universality of the Creative Process
PART IV: DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
Chapter 1. Young Inventors
Chapter 2. Exceptional Creativity Across the Life Span: The Emergence and Manifestation of Creative Genius
Chapter 3. Innovations by the Frail Elderly
PART V: ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATION
Chapter 1. The Measurement of Innovativeness
PART VI: DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION
Chapter 1. Developing High Potentials for Innovation in Young People Through the Schoolwide Enrichment Model
Chapter 2. Towards a Logic of Innovation
Chapter 3. The Development of Innovative Ideas Through Creativity Training
Chapter 4. Intuitive Tools for Innovative Thinking
Chapter 5. Stimulating Innovation
Chapter 6. Developing Innovative Ideas Through High Intellectual and Creative Educational Multimedia Technologies
PART VII: INNOVATIONS IN DIFFERENT DOMAINS
Chapter 1. Dimensions of Scientific Innovation
Chapter 2. Do Radical Discoveries Require Ontological Shifts?
Chapter 3. Understanding Scientific Innovation: The Case of Nobel Laureates
Chapter 4. Innovation in the Social Sciences: Herbert A. Simon and the Birth of a Research Tradition
Chapter 5. Poetic Innovation
Chapter 6. Directions for Innovation in Music Education: Integrating Conceptions of Musical Giftedness into General Educational Practice and Enhancing Innovation on the Part of Musically Gifted Students
Chapter 7. Determinants of Technological Innovation: Current Research Trends and Future Prospects
Chapter 8. Innovation in Financial Services Infrastructure
Chapter 9. Innovation in Integrated Electronics and Related Technologies: Experiences with Industrial-Sponsored Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Progra