Business innovation

This edited volume discusses digital transformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book argues that we are living in an era of deep mutation, and the anthropocentric model no longer fits our way of living and behaving on Earth.

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other.

This book explores how new and small ventures with comparatively fewer financial resources have been able to compete with big banks and financial institutions.

Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning.

The concept of industry 4.

This edited collection captures current thinking about and future practices and strategies for human resource development (HRD).

This edited collection captures current thinking about and future practices and strategies for human resource development (HRD).

This book systematically defines and analyses the rise of China's innovation system and Chinese corporate governance model.

This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market.

This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership.

This book describes novel approaches designed to enhance the professional training of physics teachers, and explores innovations in the teaching and learning of physics in the classroom and laboratory.

This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services.

This peer-reviewed book explores the technologies driving broadband internet connectivity in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.

This book highlights lateral management as the answer to the strategic opportunities and challenges posed by digital transformation.

This study adopts a dynamic capabilities perspective to explore the activities and processes through which business model innovations arise in established organisations.

Despite the ever-increasing interest in eye tracking, there is still no comprehensive work on the potential and applications of table-mounted and mobile head-mounted eye tracking solutions in travel and tourism.

This book elaborates on the combined challenges regarding intrapreneurship, sustainability of human resources management (HRM) and digital transformation faced by today's organizations.

This book discusses supply chain issues and models with examples from actual case studies.

The recent surge of interest in "e;digital transformation"e; is changing the business landscape and posing several challenges, both organizational and sectoral.

This book addresses several aspects of environmental sustainability awareness and priorization, explores ways to use resources and processes more responsibly, and describes the strategies, models and tools required to overcome various challenges.

This book provides an extensive overview of family business-related topics such as context and uniqueness, lifecycle and ownership configurations, conflict management, corporate governance, succession challenges, internationalization, innovation, and socioemotional wealth.

The book explores technological advances in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), which is based on a variety of technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, machine learning, big data, additive printing, cloud computing, and virtual and augmented reality.

This book discusses the importance of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems in supporting regional competitiveness.

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

This book presents a study of so-called indie video game developers that are widely regarded as the creative and innovative fringe of the video game industry.

This edited volume brings together research on symbiotic themes of entrepreneurship, resource planning, and regional development and their impact on global-local business imperatives.

This book highlights lateral management as the answer to the strategic opportunities and challenges posed by digital transformation.

This proceedings presents the papers from Urb-IoT 2018 - 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space, which took place in Guimaraes, Portugal on 21-22 November 2018.

This book analyses the important role of agribusiness and rural enterprises in economic growth and development.

This highly readable volume tells the true story of a venture that achieved more than 400,000% return for its founders and investors.

This book combines various analyses of strategic priorities in a competitive market environment, focusing on the balanced scorecard technique, but also considering customer expectations, organizational requirements, financial outcomes and technological infrastructures.

This book describes how to use computational intelligence and artificial intelligence tools to improve the decision-making process in new product development.

The book discusses the opportunities and challenges of managing knowledge in the new reality of Industry 4.

This book gives a thorough explanation of standardization, its processes, its life cycle, and its related organization on a national, regional and global level.

This book explores in depth the phenomenon of user innovation in healthcare.

This introductory book describes the initial (first) level of studying the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) from the series "e;TRIZ from A to Z,"e; and presents the most general methods for solving inventive problems and generating new ideas.

This peer-reviewed book explores the technologies driving broadband internet connectivity in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.

This book features research presented and discussed during the Research & Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) 2019.

"e;A much needed, sobering look at the seductive promises of new technologies.

A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments.

This book analyses state-of-the-art techniques in business process management as drivers of advanced entrepreneurship, financial management, supply chain management, and sustainability management.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019.

This book introduces the reader to the latest innovations in fields such as artificial intelligence, systems biology or surgery, and gives advice on what new technologies to consider for becoming a market leader of tomorrow.

Providing evidence of the role of human capital on innovation in the Middle East, this edited collection closely examines the unique nature of the workforce in this region.

Combining best practices, empirical studies and the authors' own research on technology transfer offices (TTOs), technology transfer, ecosystems and scientists in the principal investigator role, this book presents a business model framework for TTOs.

Responding to growing interest in new regulations adopted by the EU, US, and UK authorities, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and economic aspects of FinTech and the current regulation surrounding it.

This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate sustainability and digital transformation.

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship.

This volume explores the interconnection of social, political, technological and economic challenges that impact consumer relationships, new product launches and consumer interests.