Business innovation

This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today's digital economy.

This book focuses on the theory and practice involved in the management of innovative activities that enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.

This edited book comprises papers about the impacts, benefits and challenges of connected and automated cars.

This book presents a radically different approach to innovation aimed at creating new growth cycles for the Russian economy.

This book examines the link between innovation and economic crises through a systemic philosophy of economic history.

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

This volume explores the role of territory in the creation, maintenance and extension of a new type of frontier, the electronic frontier, from a social and economic point of view.

This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level.

This book explains how to restructure and successfully turn around a bank or financial institution at a time when the global financial system is facing a new wave of disruption ushered in by innovation from digital financial technology, or FinTech.

Baker takes on eight dysfunctional people management practices originating from the scientific management and offers practical solutions for changing these practices and increasing organizational agility.

This book aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining.

This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations.

Business model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers.

This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany.

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other.

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This book aims to address how nanotechnology risks are being addressed  by scientists, particularly in the areas of human health and the environment and how these risks can be measured in financial terms for insurers and regulators.

This book examines the changing business andeconomic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcomingchallenges for this industry.

The book athand gives an overview of the state of the art research in ComputationalSustainability as well as case studies of different application scenarios.

Inthis book, leading CEOs, CIOs and experts from international corporationsexplore the role of digitalization and cloud-based processes as the mainbusiness drivers of the 21st century.

This book clarifies the common misconception that there are no systematic instruments to support ideation, heuristics and creativity.

This book discusses the differences between consumer marketing and industrial marketing, as well as the challenges faced when putting each into practice.

This book describes how chief information officers (CIOs) can embrace and drive the digital transformation by providing innovative leadership that uses old skills in a novel way.

This Brief presents a new model for business development-MERge-to be implemented in practitioners' professional development in general and in the context of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiatives, particularly, in industry, educational institutions and public sector organizations.

This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes.

This book charts the experiences, pitfalls and knowledge behind leading scientific ideas to successful startups.

This book offersreaders essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first andforemost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures andrisk mitigation.

This textbook armsthe reader with powerful techniques of Modern TRIZ self-training andreal problem solving.

This proceedings volume presents the latest research fromthe worldwide mass customization, personalization and co-creation (MCPC)community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplineswithin the field.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on emerging issues regarding the role of information and communication technologies in organizations, inter-organizational systems, and society.

This book contributes to a better understanding of entrepreneurship in transition economies.

This book discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, andtrends involving the interactions between academia, industry, government and society.

This book presents the current state-of-the-art in all major and upcoming areas of entrepreneurship research.

This book analyzes various digital transformation processes in journalism and news media.

This monograph presents a tactical planning approach for service network design in metropolitan areas.

This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries.

This bookis a timely guide for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) researchers, policymakers and strategists.

Thisvolume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,innovation and technology research.

This book comprisesrefereed papers from the 10th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management(WCEAM 2015), held in Tampere, Finland in September 2015.

This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the 'EPR Future 2014' conference held in Dornbirn/Austria on November 17-18th, 2014.

This book identifies and discusses the main challenges facing digital business innovation and the emerging trends and practices that will define its future.

This volume explores the field of transport sector development.

This contributed volume contains the results of the research program "e;Agreement for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles"e;, developed in the framework of the Energy Technology Network of the International Energy Agency.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the sixth edition of the Complex Systems Design & Management Paris (CSD&M Paris 2015) international conference which took place in Paris (France) on November 23-25, 2015.

This book presents the full scope of Design Thinking in theory and practice, bringing together prominent opinion leaders and experienced practitioners who share their insights, approaches and lessons learned.

This volume provides a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of different nations by combining individual data with institutional components.

This book explores public sector entrepreneurship from an international perspective.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focused on the relationship between information technology and accounting and control models.

This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities.