Business innovation

This contributed volume explores and reveals the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, trends and implications of entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This edited book intends to provide knowledge on tools and practices of servitization to facilitate the formulation and implementation of servitization-based strategies, service infusion and manufacturing service transition globally.

Sharing information and knowledge, co-innovating with clients, communities, and competitors and adopting cognitive technology, robo advisors, crowdfunding, and blockchain reflect current socio-economic behaviour.

This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing.

This proceedings volume examines the effects of transport on socio-economic development including innovation, public health and cultural behavior.

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products.

The aim of this book is to focus on the role of sports technology and the way that the innovation process is managed.

This book examines prominent issues in the Emerging Markets (EM) from a variety of disciplines in order to make useful societal contributions through knowledge exchange.

Companies need to invest in innovation in order to ensure their long-term survival.

This volume explores the ways in which knowledge and innovation impact business and economic sustainability, offering a wide-ranging and richly illustrated study of knowledge, innovation and sustainability of organizations from a dynamic capabilities perspective.

This book presents a summary of a three-year research project on risk management for the Capture, Transport and Storage of CO2 (CTSC), offering an in-depth study on complex sociotechnical systems and systemic modeling.

This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management.

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

This collection of expert articles explores the development drivers of new technology-based firms and projects.

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

Is digitalization a value-added approach?

This book presents SAP Next-Gen, an innovation community for SAP Leonardo.

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development.

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

Power and Energy industry is a highly capital intensive business field.

Power and Energy industry is a highly capital intensive business field.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.

Taking the themes of entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation and collaboration, this book seeks to answer the urgent question of how countries and companies can stay competitive in an ever-changing digital environment.

This book presents a collection of interrelated research advances in the field of technological entrepreneurship from the perspective of competition in emerging markets.

This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale.

This book is a must-read guide for those entering the world of HealthTech startups.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

This book describes the water sector as it is structured in Italy, presenting innovative engineering, financial and managerial solutions implemented by the Italian water sector, through the experiences of its major stakeholders.

Presenting a scientific exploration of personal branding and digital communication, this ground-breaking book aims to fill a gap between theory and practice.

This book explores the intricate connection between the Single Market, characterized by the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor within and across Europe, and the Digital Single Market, the virtual space that promotes freedom of movement of information and data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in June 2017.

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

This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable.

This book explores European security and defense R&D policy, unveiling the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of the European Commission's military research initiative.

This book examines knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) with a focus on the European textile and apparel industries.

This book analyses the relationships among product safety strategy and culture, concurrent engineering, new product development (NPD) processes and product safety performance.

This book discusses transport research and innovation, highlighting prospects for cooperation between different countries.

This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007.

This volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of the rapidly evolving field of agribusiness, highlighting the most current issues, concepts, trends and themes in research, practice and policy.

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 gathers a diverse range of novel research on modeling innovation policies for sustainable economic development, based on a selection of papers from a conference on modeling innovation systems and technologies (MIST).

This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development.

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.

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

This book investigates and highlights the most critical challenges the pharmaceutical industry faces in an increasingly competitive environment of inflationary R&D investments and tightening cost control pressures.

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition.

This book teaches readers the fundamentals of innovation and reduces them to practice in the context of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.

Fast moving, to the point, and rooted in first-hand executive experiences, this book is for people of vision and action, and for creating the conditions required for growth, innovation, and increased competitive advantage.