Business innovation

This book presents the history of modern human creativity/innovation through examples of solutions to basic human needs that have been developed over time.

Artificial intelligence and related technologies are changing both the law and the legal profession.

This book comprises chapters by leading international authors analysing the interface between intellectual property and foreign direct investment, development, and free trade.

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 presents innovative research and its applications in the development of transportation infrastructure, and discusses the latest trends, challenges and unsolved problems in the field of transport technology.

This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries.

This book investigates the real process of unleashing the power of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) through Open Innovation and strategic choices.

This book discusses the experience of enterprise transformation and upgrading and the role of government in promoting this dramatic change in Asian emerging economies.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design.

This edited book explores how stakeholders play a key part in any entrepreneurial endeavour because of their investment in the outcome.

This book is the first one that comprehensively discusses cyberspace sovereignty in China, reflecting China's clear attitude in the global Internet governance: respecting every nation's right to independently choose a development path, cyber management modes and Internet public policies and to participate in the international cyberspace governance on an equal footing.

This book gathers selected theoretical and applied science papers presented at the 2016 Regional Conference of Sciences, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2016), organized biannually by the Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang, Malaysia.

For the last fifteen years, open innovation has been one of the hottest topics in innovation management research.

'This is a landmark study that tackles an important black box in innovation studies - i.

Crossroads of Family Businesses in China: Succession and Transformation studies the intergenerational succession in family-owned businesses, specifically in the Chinese mainland.

Innovation studies have long been confined to the theoretical system established by the scholars of developed countries in the West.

China has attracted a huge amount of investment in R&D internationalization of multi-national corporations (MNCs), which is playing an important role in its economy.

Recent developments of Internet-based digital technologies have revealed a huge potential of developing open, collaborative and network-centred innovation.

China is surging in the tech race - and will continue to outperform the United States.

Technological Innovation: Strategy and Management offers a comprehensive analysis of technological innovation management from a strategic and integrated approach.

This book offers a framework and analysis for the current technological landscape between the United States and China across the financial and insurance sectors as well as emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, Cloud and Data Analytics and Quantum Computing (ABCDQ).

'It both provides tools and techniques for design thinking and illustrates the principles of usability advocated within through its own layout and organization, and so serves as its own best recommendation.

This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries.

This book is the first in a series on Chinese management based on the Global Chinese Management Conferences (from 2015 to 2017), an annual conference organized by the Sun Tzu Art of War Institute.

This book discusses adoptive management innovation, which has been successfully implemented in other areas.

This book, at the crossroads of creativity, design and interdisciplinary studies, offers an overview of these major trends in scientific research, society, culture and economics.

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

This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations.

This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems.

This book examines the globalisation of technology and innovation in the modern world.

This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion.

This third volume on detox fashion highlights sustainable wastewater treatment methods, as well as techniques used by and the adoption of detox strategies by different brands in the textile sector.

This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives.

Starting from a history of new media, this book presents the development of network technology and media applications in China, while also examining the relationship between new media and politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, traditional media, law, knowledge, etc.

This book addresses three important concepts in the economy-competition, innovation, and growth-using various cases and available data in Japan and other countries.

This book focuses on the applications of optimal control theory to operations strategy and supply chain management.

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations' innovation performance.

This book focuses on promoting entrepreneurial ecosystems within universities and educational institutes.

This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

This book is particularly concerned with China's path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved.

This edited book focuses on growth and entrepreneurial development in rapidly developing countries in Asia-Pacific region.

The book is based on practical experience gained during the planning and execution of e-governance projects in India coupled with extensive research based on six national/multi-state-level agriculture related projects.

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

This book elaborates on the distinction between societal innovation and social innovation.

This volume deals with the role and impact of technology on the economy and society.

This book addresses key issues concerning the maintenance time and development of patents granted by China, as well as the patent maintenance time granted by the United States, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea.

Biotechnology can bring major breakthroughs in agriculture.

This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture.

This book gathers selected science and technology papers that were presented at the 2014 Regional Conference of Sciences, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014).