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Summary
Modern technology and innovation are vital to the success of all companies, be they hi-tech firms or companies seeming unaffected by technology and innovation, established firms or business start-ups. Managing Technology and Innovationfocuses on understanding technology as a corporate resource, covering product development, design of systems and the managerial aspects of new and high technology. Topics covered include: * The internal organization of high technology firms * The management of technology in the society * Managing innovation * Dilemmas and strategies The wide-ranging experience of the teachers and experts who have contributed to this book has resulted in an integrated, multi-disciplinary, textbook that provides an introductory overview to managing technology and innovation in the 21st century.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. vii |
| List of tables | p. ix |
| List of boxes | p. x |
| About the authors | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| General Introduction | p. 1 |
| Management of technology: setting the scene | p. 3 |
| The Internal Organization of High-Technology Firms | p. 21 |
| Introduction | p. 21 |
| Design of technological firms | p. 23 |
| Human Resource Management for advanced technology | p. 43 |
| Cost and financial accounting in high-technology firms | p. 64 |
| Foundations for successful high-technology marketing | p. 84 |
| The Management of Technology in the Society | p. 107 |
| Introduction | p. 107 |
| Managing the dynamics of technology in modern day society | p. 109 |
| Development and diffusion of breakthrough communication technologies | p. 130 |
| Forecasting the market potential of new products | p. 149 |
| The innovating firm in a societal context: labor-management relations and labor productivity | p. 170 |
| Complex decision-making in multi-actor systems | p. 192 |
| Managing Innovation | p. 207 |
| Introduction | p. 207 |
| Corporate strategy and technology | p. 209 |
| Innovation in context: from R&D management to innovation networks | p. 227 |
| Operation management with System Dynamics | p. 248 |
| Managing knowledge processes | p. 263 |
| Dilemmas and Strategies | p. 287 |
| Introduction | p. 287 |
| Making the impossible possible: controlling innovation | p. 289 |
| When failure is not an option: managing complex technologies under intensifying interdependencies | p. 306 |
| Managing performance in firms | p. 322 |
| Management dilemmas and strategies in practice | p. 335 |
| Index | p. 355 |
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