Making Sense of Innovation Management

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Teknologiainfo Teknova oy | 2008 | ISBN: 9518179565 | 295 pages | PDF | 5,6 MB

Preface

This book provides an overview of the broad feld of innovation

and business management, and introduces tools to support 

innovation management in practice. The topic is approached 

using a number of complementary concepts and viewpoints. 

Special emphasis has been placed on strategies and busi-

ness models. The underlying assumption is that the differ-

ence between more and less successful offerings can often be 

attributed to the design and implementation of the underlying 

business model. In other words, while the source and type of 

an innovation may vary a lot, a new technology or a new solu-

tion alone does not equal commercial success.

This book has been produced as part of the Innovation 

Models and Management Tools (Inno-Mode) research project in 

2004-2007. The overall objective of the Inno-Mode project was 

to promote innovation management within Finnish industry, 

and between Finnish companies and their partners world-wide. 

The project was carried out in close association with the frst

Industrial Innovation Management (IIM) training programme in 

2004-2006. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland managed 

both projects.

Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation, 

companies participating in the IIM programme and VTT funded 

the Inno-Mode pro ject. The authors want to extend their sin-

cere thanks to the sponsors of this study. Special thanks are 

due to Göran Andersson, the manager of the IIM programme, 

who granted us access to the IIM seminars; the participants 

of the IIM programme who helped us with the case studies; 

Prof. Göran Roos of Cranfeld University for interesting discus-

sions and invaluable comments about the manuscript of this 

book; Maija-Liisa Ihanus for equally interesting discussions 

and editing support during the different phases of the writing 

process; Rusty Snyder for the comprehensive language check; 

Mervi Sibakov of Technology Industries of Finland Centennial 

Foundation for excellent coordination throughout the project; 

and, of course, Eira Yrttiaho of Teknologiainfo Teknova Oy for 

the publishing contract that we needed!

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