Business innovation

This book identifies the potential of intellectual property as a competitive asset for Latin American firms.

Responding to the need for organizations to improve global strategic planning and execution, this book presents a framework for effectively conceiving and executing new concepts for international markets.

This book presents a systematic literature review of 156 published papers on business model innovation (BMI).

This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology.

This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.

This book discusses concepts of good design from social perspectives grounded in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, the goal being to provide readers with an awareness of social issues to help them in their work as design professionals.

This book covers all types of literature on existing trend analysis approaches, but more than 60% of the methodologies are developed here and some of them are reflected to scientific literature and others are also innovative versions, modifications or improvements.

 This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective.

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility.

This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival.

This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the "e;shaped magnetic field in resonance"e; (SMFIR).

This book investigates the powerful role of online intermediaries, which connect companies with their end customers, to facilitate joint product innovation.

This book analyzes the common set of obstacles to the development and integration of government Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects and effective e-government initiatives in developing countries.

This book introduces readers to cybersecurity and its impact on the realization of the Industry 4.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the essential issues in effective entrepreneurial management.

This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization.

This volume presents selected papers from the 18th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, with major emphasis placed on highlighting the latest research developments in the economics of innovation, public economics, and management.

This book provides a consistent and holistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (roles, processes, tasks, and deliverables) that covers all aspects of product management.

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

This book presents the latest research perspectives on how the Industry 4.

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other.

This book employs a variety of economic and philosophical methodologies in order to discover the philosophical implications of creative destruction, competition regulation, and the role that businesses or market agents play.

Addressing the challenge of improving battery quality while reducing high costs and environmental impacts of the production, this book presents a multiscale simulation approach for battery production systems along with a software environment and an application procedure.

This book addresses the core challenges currently faced by traditional companies.

Technological advancements are contributing to shape future business models and the industrial scenario.

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival.

This book analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial university, specifically in relation to the creation of entrepreneurial ideas and attitudes in students and entrepreneurial initiatives in academic institutions.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization.

The book reports on advanced topics in the areas of wearable robotics research and practice.

This book provides a practical and strategic perspective on IT and cyber security for corporations and other businesses.

This book introduces and analyzes the models for engineering leadership and competency skills, as well as frameworks for industry-academia collaboration and is appropriate for students, researchers, and professionals interested in continuous professional development.

India is still perceived by some as a developing country that has yet to create world-class products of its own.

This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage.

This book discusses cars of the future and the new socio-economic paradigm that they represent.

This book discusses opportunities for broadcasters that arise with the advent of broadband networks, both fixed and mobile.

This book offers both marketing and sales professionals a rare combined insight into both worlds to continuously capture customer intelligence and create value, by blending detailed research with academic rigor and commercial experience of the authors in both Europe and North America.

This book is devoted to discussion of the views of Pierre Musso and starts with a central chapter written by Musso, entitled  Network Ideology: from Saint-Simonianism to the Internet .

This book focuses on the analytic principles of business practice and big data.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles.

This book explores the importance and the types of media innovation policies formulated and implemented in various European countries.

The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy context.

This book explores the factors that make digital disruption possible and the effects this has on existing business models.

This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation.

Addressing the wide-ranging challenges of global entrepreneurship and innovation faced by both East and West, this edited volume provides a multi-faceted overview of the complexity facing entrepreneurial firms within global value chains.

This book examines the ways in which universities can play a crucial role in inclusive development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

The purpose of this volume is to explore sustainable innovation and "e;fair development"e; in China.

This book describes aspects of the natural gas hydrate (NGH) system that offer opportunities for the innovative application of existing technology and development of new technology that could dramatically lower the cost of NGH exploration and production.

The purpose of the book is to devise an alternative conceptual vocabulary for studying innovation by stressing the role of social, contextual and cultural perspectives.

This book illustrates approaches for implementing ICT in primary education.