Business innovation

Life improves under the economic system often called "e;entrepreneurial capitalism"e; or "e;creative destruction,"e; but more accurately called "e;innovative dynamism.

What do Stone Age axes, Toll House cookies, and Burning Man have in common?

What do Stone Age axes, Toll House cookies, and Burning Man have in common?

For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival.

In the world of business, who you know is usually more important than what you know.

In the world of business, who you know is usually more important than what you know.

Creativity is the fastest growing business in the world.

'Read this book to create a company as enchanting as Apple' Steve Wozniak'The power of a really good idea to transform the marketplace and individual customer experiences is huge.

Hacking Work blows the cover off the biggest open secret in the working world.

Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20% of its potential benefit.

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not.

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies.

The book discusses, elaborates on and answers questions to the following points:  Firstly, what has changed through the information technology represented by software, Internet and big data?

This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless of how far in the future.

Urgent deadlines, constant lack of time, permanent delays - these are the most faithful companions and, at the same time, the greatest enemies of the project manager.

This book illustrates the applications of mobile robot systems in warehouse operations with an integrated decision framework for their selection and application.

This book explores the latest achievements and design possibilities that 3D printing for construction (DPC) can offer, the alternative materials to natural aggregates or cement and even the 4th dimension that is already starting in this area.

All over the world, open innovation is emerging and requires much more interactions between different actors with different organizational cultures: large firms and SMEs (i.

The past decade has brought to the fore the critical need to constantly envision and consider various scenarios where ongoing trends and sudden changes could together alter the provision of healthcare and the direction of medical research.

Digital innovation - involving the Internet, its content and ecosystems of global users - is a rapidly evolving way of creating strategic and societal value.

This book focuses on exploring the relationship between spin-outs from incumbents and the patterns of innovation in general purpose technology.

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China's first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone.

This book introduces a new paradigm called 'Optimization in Changeable Spaces' (OCS) as a useful tool for decision making and problem solving.

This book explores the ways in which education impacts labor markets.

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 integrates Industrie 4.

This book explores the principles of supply-side structural reform and current practices in the Chinese steel industry.

The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation, screening for borrower risk and monitoring for borrower effort in doing so.

This book is based on the work of the YEEES Research Centre, an international network of scientists from partner universities in Germany, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa.

Across several industries, we are observing a paradigm shift from traditional, firm-centric and top-down value creation to more open and collaborative approaches, also referred to as bottom-up economics.

This book explores how ?

The Yearbook on Space Policy, edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), is the reference publication analysing space policy developments.

This book explores categories of applications and driving factors surrounding the Smart City phenomenon.

This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017).

This book provides methods and practical cases and experiences with the aim of stimulating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders and communicators.

This book presents human-centered concepts and solutions for mobility, logistics and infrastructure that will make our growing metropolitan areas more livable and sustainable.

This book presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy, healthcare, transportation and education.

This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective.

The financial industry has traditionally been seen as resistant to change, but with the advent of FinTech, the landscape is shifting rapidly.

This edited book offers further advances, new perspectives, and developments from world leaders in the field of through-life engineering services (TES).

This book explores blockchain technology's impact on banks, particularly how blockchain technology can create new opportunities for banks and poses new threats to their business.

This textbook offers an essential introduction to design orientation in business, which impacts the way management is undertaken world-wide.

A seminal collection of research methodology themes, this two-volume work provides a set of key scholarly developments related to robustness, allowing scholars to advance their knowledge of research methods used outside of their own immediate fields.

This book gathers the papers presented at the XXIX International Congress INGEGRAF "e;The digital transformation in graphic engineering,"e; which was held in Logrono, Spain on June 20-21, 2019.

What can a WWII-era tank teach us about design?

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