Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change
A Research Handbook
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2006
- ISBN 9780199299195
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages592 pages
- Size 252x175x36 mm
- Weight 1173 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures and tables 0
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Short description:
Innovation is a key factor not just in the Research and Design process, but in research, institutions, and society. This research handbook is unique in examining research findings and new theoretical models relating to innovation at a number of analytic levels: projects, organizations, industrial sectors, and society.
MoreLong description:
Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'.
This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new approach to the study of innovation. It is the editors' conviction that this approach must accomplish several objectives: it must recognise that innovation encompasses changes in organizations and society, as well as products and processes; it must be genuinely interdisciplinary and include contributes from economics, sociology, management and political science; It must be international, to reflect both different patterns or systems of innovation, and different research traditions; and it must reflect the fundamental changes taking place in science, research and knowledge creation at all levels.
To this end they have gathered together a distinguished group of economists, sociologists, political scientists, and organization, innovation and institutional theorists to both assess current research on innovation, and to set out a new research agenda. This has been achieved through careful planning and development of the project, and also through the ensuing structure of the book which looks in turn at Product and Process Innovation (perhaps the best established focus of existing research on innovation), Scientific Research (assessing the changing character of basic research and science policy); Knowledge Dynamics in Context (encompassing organizational learning in all its aspects); and Institutional Change (an analysis of the institutional context that can shape, enable and constrain innovation).
This carefully integrated and wide ranging book will be an ideal reference point for academics and researchers across the Social Sciences interested in all dimensions of innovation - be they in the field of Management Studies, Economics, Organization Studies, Sociology, Political Science and Science and Technology Studies.
Table of Contents:
Product and Process Innovation, Scientific Research, Knowledge Dynamics, and Institutional Change: An Introduction
Section I: Product and Process Innovation
Introduction
Product and Process Innovation: A Review of Organizational and Environmental Determinants
Interorganizational Relations and Innovation: Review and Speculation
Knowledge-based View of Radical Innovation: Toyota Prius Case
Markets and Industrial Innovation
Can Regulations Induce Environmental Innovations? An Analysis of the Role of Regulations in the Pulp and Paper Industry in Selected Industrialized Countries
From Theory to Practice: The Use of the Systems of Innovation Approach in Innovation Policy
Section II: Scientific Research
Introduction
Factors Influencing Advances in Science and Technology: Variation due to Diversity in Research Profiles
Network Attributes Impacting the Generation and Flow of Knowledge Within and From the Basic Science Community
Innovation, Learning, and Macro-Institutional Change: The Limits of the Market Model as an Organizing Principle for Research Systems
How is Innovation Influenced by Science and Technology Policy Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons
Two Styles of Knowing and Knowledge Regimes: Between 'Explicitation' and 'Exploration' Under Conditions of 'Functional Specialization' or 'Fragmental Distribution'
Section III: Knowledge Dynamics in Context
Introduction
Building Innovation Capabilities: The Development of Design-Oriented Organizations
New Sources of Radical Innovation Research-Technologies: Transversity and Distributed Learning in a Post-Industrial Order
How Markets Matter: Radical Innovation, Societal Acceptance and the Case of Genetically Engineered Food
Prospective Structures of Science and Science Policy
The Role of Education and Training Systems in Innovation
Section IV: Institutional Chance
Introduction
A Path Dependent Perspective on Institutional and Organizational Factors Shaping Major Scientific Discoveries
Turning Tracks? Path Dependence, Technological Paradigm Shifts, and Organizational and Institutional Change
Patterns of Institutional and Societal Change
Export the Silicon Valley to Europe: How Useful is Comparative Institutional Theory?
What's New? General Patterns fo Planned Macro-Institutional Change
Insights for R&D Managers
Conclusion
