Information for Innovation
Managing Change from an Information Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 April 1998
- ISBN 9780198288251
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 224x145x23 mm
- Weight 507 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and above all about information technology. However not much is said about information itself. The author investigates information as the central issue in a variety of areas: from patents to high technology; from corporate strategy to industrial espionage. In doing so he shows that the role information may play in processes of innovation and change is far from straightforward.
MoreLong description:
Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. If these are important, then so is information. But information is not as other goods: it has some peculiar characteristics. It cannot be displayed for sale without giving it away in the process. Sold, it goes to the buyer but still remains with the seller. Buying entails expressing demand in ignorance for buyers who do not know just what it is that they do not know. Such characteristics have long been recognised by economists, but it is not generally economists who have most to say about the importance of information. This privilege is exercised by senior managers, who speak passionately about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, anxious to compensate with policy and programme for the information failure of organization and market; and by specialists in telecommunications and information technology, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. All are particularly enthusiastic about the innovation which springs from information.
Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing this new information with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex information transactions are required rather than simple information transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of information.
This book contrasts the way innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas from eighteenth-century agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corporate strategy to patents and independent inventors with how it appears from what is termed an 'information perspective', that is one that puts information first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (and organization) should be considered.
Information for Innovation is a delight to read. The author attacks the subject with the intellectual incisiveness for which he is renowned. It will intrigue and challenge a diverse readership
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Nature of Information
Change and Innovation
Sources of Information for Change and Innovation
The Flow of Information
The Mixing of Information
Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor
Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information
Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks
Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition
Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture
The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System
Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization
Concluding Thoughts
