Business innovation

This book identifies and discusses the main challenges facing digital business innovation and the emerging trends and practices that will define its future.

This volume explores the field of transport sector development.

This contributed volume contains the results of the research program "e;Agreement for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles"e;, developed in the framework of the Energy Technology Network of the International Energy Agency.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the sixth edition of the Complex Systems Design & Management Paris (CSD&M Paris 2015) international conference which took place in Paris (France) on November 23-25, 2015.

This book presents the full scope of Design Thinking in theory and practice, bringing together prominent opinion leaders and experienced practitioners who share their insights, approaches and lessons learned.

This volume provides a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of different nations by combining individual data with institutional components.

This book explores public sector entrepreneurship from an international perspective.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focused on the relationship between information technology and accounting and control models.

This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities.

This book reflects on the emerging trends, development, and challenges of policy on sustainability using information technology, and provides valuable insights to both research and practice communities.

There is a widely acknowledged evaluation gap in the field of e-participation practice and research, a lack of systematic evaluation with regard to process organization, outcome and impacts.

This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance.

The book contains solutions to fundamental problems which arise due to the logic of development of specific branches of science, which are related to pipeline safety, but mainly are subordinate to the needs of pipeline transportation.

This book presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley.

This book examines education in entrepreneurship through an action-learning environment that uses educational innovation tools.

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis.

This edited monograph collects theoretical, empirical and political contributions from different fields, focusing on the commercial launch of electric mobility, and intending to shed more light on the complexity of supply and demand.

This book opens the "e;black box"e; of software sourcing by explaining how dynamic software alignment is established and how it impacts business performance outcomes.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies.

This book provides a brief and general introduction to cybersecurity and cyber-risk assessment.

This book provides an integrated overview of key trends in digital transformation, taking into consideration five interrelated dimensions: strategy and business models, society, organization, technology and regulation.

This textbook addresses the conceptual and practical aspects of the various phases of the lifecycle of service systems, ranging from service ideation, design, implementation, analysis, improvement and trading associated with service systems engineering.

This book describes a collaborative Design Pilot Project held in Brazil (called MODU.

This book explores a range of critical issues and emerging topics relevant to the linkages between information technologies and organizational systems.

This book presents essential information for the development of a comprehensive sustainable energy policy.

This book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy, GIKA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2015.

This book presents 3D3C platforms - three-dimensional systems for community, creation and commerce.

This book aims to bind together latest theories on creation of innovative clusters and operating modalities, empirical analysis, and several new formal models describing cluster formation and dynamics.

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a governance framework promoted by influential policy makers such as the European Commission and academics from the fields of science and technology studies and management.

This book is a compilation of perspectives provided by several winners of the ASQ Feigenbaum Medal, which is awarded each year to an individual under the age of 35 who has made a significant contribution to the field of Quality.

This monograph provides a methodological approach for establishing demand-oriented levels of energy transparency of factories.

This book introduces a new notion of replacement in maintenance and reliability theory.

This book focuses on the process of creating and educating innovation leaders through specialized programs, which are offered by leading academic schools.

Marianne J.

Maximising reader insights into the theory, models, methods and fundamental reasoning of design, this book addresses design activities in industrial settings, as well as the actors involved.

This volume collects selected papers of the 3rd CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2014.

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2015, held in Braga, Portugal, in June 2015.

This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services.

This volume, developed in honor of Dr.

Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular method to finance projects of every kind and scale.

This book aims to study the factors effecting the adoption and diffusion of Health Information Technology (HIT) innovation.

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This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) can be used to enhance the study of social agency, organizational behavior and organizational management.

Today, social media have attracted the attention of political actors and administrative institutions to inform citizens as a prerequisite of open and transparent administration, deliver public services, contact stakeholders, revitalize democracy, encourage the cross-agency cooperation, and contribute to knowledge management.

This volume of selected articles was released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization.

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Inter-university cooperation across the world has shown several positive outcomes in terms of knowledge exchange as well as R&D benefits.