Business innovation

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.

This new edition surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

The concept of industry 4.

This book presents the proceedings of the IDEAS Conference, which is intended as a forum for a new generation of researchers.

This book goes beyond the hype, delving into real world technologies and applications that are driving our future and examines the possible impact these changes will have on industries, economies and society at large.

How can we design innovative food experiences that enhance food pleasure and consumer well-being?

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

This book systematizes the concepts of business relationships and network embeddedness, taking a new approach to internationalization, relevant for the global economy.

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This book provides readers with in-depth insights into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability strategies, as well as their impacts on product and process innovation, business models and social innovation around the globe.

This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management.

In this Springer Brief, the author introduces how Chinese firms are successfully using their own variants of the 'Silicon Valley Approach' to management.

This book analyzes the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation and explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries.

This book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the adoption of small-scale residential solar photovoltaic systems (RSPSs) in Saudi Arabia.

This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India.

This book clarifies the direction of business innovation using new ICT such as the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones, and cloud computing through a series of case studies on successful trials and advanced businesses in the Asia-Pacific where many industry sectors have been growing successfully in the 21st century.

This book showcases selected conference papers addressing the sustainable future of ASEAN from the perspectives of science and technology disciplines.

With the implementation of the strategic plan "e;Made in China 2025"e; as its guideline and "e;the study of formulation of executive summary of innovative design in the manufacturing industry"e; as the main theme, this book provides an in-depth interpretation of innovative design from three perspectives - why, what and how.

This book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace.

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development.

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change.

This volume collects selected papers of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018.

Ideas are ubiquitous.

This book reveals how a generative design process capitalizes on understanding humans in context to deliver appropriate innovation.

This book explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them.

This book introduces the structure, economic arguments, and business strategies for entrepreneurship in sport.

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks.

This book focuses on enhancing management theories of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs), analyzing academic and research institutions and multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO).

This book discusses how the methods and mindsets of design thinking empower large organizations to create groundbreaking innovations.

This book explains how various forms of artificial intelligence, namely machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation, could provide a source of competitive advantage to firms deploying them compared to those firms that would not have deployed these technologies.

Manufacturers have shifted their focus from products to smart solutions in search of higher returns and additional growth opportunities.

This book provides a multidisciplinary view of smart infrastructure through a range of diverse introductory and advanced topics.

This book adds to the discussion from Volume 1 by providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services and marketing, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, particularly focusing on services marketing.

This book points out that "e;Internet"e; is the means, and the digital economy is the result.

The book covers a variety of topics in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and their impact on innovation and business.

This book defines innovation as both a problem and a problem-solving process.

Mobility in Germany is embracing market changes like never before.

This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been growing successfully in the 21th century.

This book explores the social and economic impact of the sharing economy- of taxis, apartments, and other goods and services- in China, and how the sharing economy can allow for supply-side economic reform.

The book presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU 2018), which took place on December 4-5, 2018 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

How do you develop business in a world certain to be dominated by Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and the Economy of Things?

This book promotes the creation of advanced knowledge-based economies driven by innovation networks and the continuous development of human capital and capability.

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate.

This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design.

This is the sixth volume of a sub series on Road Vehicle Automation published within the Lecture Notes in Mobility.

This book demystifies the developments and defines the buzzwords in the wide open space of digitalization and finance, exploring the space of FinTech through the lens of the financial services professional and what they need to know to stay ahead.

This book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This book presents tools for valuing and controlling corporate innovation.

The book discusses the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance.