Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
About the Book Series
This innovative series explores the role of innovation and innovation management and technological advances from an organizational perspective. This series brings together theories from a wide range of individual disciplines and examines both the internal understanding and management and also an external, shareholder perspective. Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology (RIOT!) features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies: Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge
1st Edition
By Alberto Onetti, Antonella Zucchella
June 08, 2018
Most books on the biotechnology industry focus on scientific and technological challenges, ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. The Business Models for Life Science Firms aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools ...
Collaborative Innovation: Developing Health Support Ecosystems
1st Edition
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By Mitsuru Kodama
June 08, 2018
With the development of the aging society and the increased importance of emergency risk management in recent years, a large number of medical care challenges - advancing medical treatments, care & support, pharmacological treatments, greater health awareness, emergency treatments, ...
Framing Innovation in Public Service Sectors
1st Edition
By Rolf Rønning, Bo Enquist, Lars Fuglsang
June 08, 2018
Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries. In public sector services, innovation is a frequent, often holistic, and multi-layered process that involves many actors and many services at the same time. However, most of the...
Information Theft Prevention: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Romanus Okeke, Mahmood Hussain Shah
June 08, 2018
As retail businesses migrate to the digital realm, internal information theft incidents continue to threaten on-line and off-line retail operations. The evolving propagation of internal information theft has surpassed the traditional techniques of crime prevention practices. Many business ...
Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies
1st Edition
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By Mario Davide Parrilli, Rune Dahl Fitjar, Andres Rodriguez-Pose
June 08, 2018
In the global economy, regional development and innovation are increasingly an imperative to increase the competitive edge of EU economies. While European regions are different in many ways, the innovation capacity of regions, clusters and firms is what makes them capable of building up new and ...
Management of Broadband Technology and Innovation: Policy, Deployment, and Use
1st Edition
By Jyoti Choudrie, Catherine Middleton
June 08, 2018
When one considers broadband, the Internet immediately springs to mind. However, broadband is impacting society in many ways. For instance, broadband networks can be used to deliver healthcare or community related services to individuals who don't have computers, have distance as an issue to ...
Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management
1st Edition
By Bart Bossink
May 31, 2017
Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the ...
Managing Organizational Ecologies: Space, Management, and Organizations
1st Edition
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By Keith Alexander, Ilfryn Price
May 31, 2017
The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the ...
Public Sector Transformation through E-Government: Experiences from Europe and North America
1st Edition
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By Vishanth Weerakkody, Christopher G. Reddick
May 31, 2017
Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government (e-government). Public Sector Transformation through E-Government explores the influence ...
The Entrepreneurial University: Context and Institutional Change
1st Edition
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By Lene Foss, David Gibson
April 10, 2017
Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: How will ...
The New Production of Users: Changing Innovation Collectives and Involvement Strategies
1st Edition
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By Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Elgaard Jensen, Nelly Oudshoorn
November 03, 2016
Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How should designers get to know the users’ interests and needs? Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate ...
Creativity Research: An Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary Research Handbook
1st Edition
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By Eric Shiu
August 03, 2016
Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines. This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from&...