Preface

Innovation Management in Research and Industry covers the issues of innovation management with a special emphasis in the field of research and industry. Markets, day after day, are changing more and quicker than ever. All over the world academics as well as practitioners are seeking to understand how organizations manage and/or can manage their knowledge and intellectual capital in order to establish and implement adequate strategies of innovation leading to more effective competitive advantages. This is a critical point not only in the academic and research field, but also in the industry arena where organizations need to develop and implement strategies able to facilitate and enhance innovation.

Conscious of the importance of these issues, and in order to answer the concerns expressed by many academics, as well as executives and managers, this book looks to help these professionals to understand and implement in their organizations effective strategies for innovation. Whilst focusing on these innovative strategies, this book is also concerned and interested in the application of theoretical concepts to modern organizations. It provides discussion and the exchange of information on strategies, techniques, methodologies and applications of innovation management in research and industry, as well as to communicate the latest developments and thinking concerning the latest research activity relating to these issues worldwide.

The book covers innovation management in research and industry in eight chapters. Chapter 1 discusses “The Link Between Technological Focus and Innovative Capacities ”. Chapter 2 covers “Uptake of Market ‘Induced Innovation’ by Upstream Actors in Tanzania”. Chapter 3 describes “Customer Experience, Technology and Innovation: Evidence from Georgian London and the Victorian Era”. Chapter 4 contains information on “Industrial Resilience: Reframing the Role of Innovation policies for Regional Development”. Subsequently, Chapter 5 covers “Innovation Knowledge Management Nexus”. Chapter 6 discusses “Human Capital Accounting: a Contribution to Innovation Management or a Fairly Tale ?”. Chapter 7 describes “Beyond the 3C Model in Collaboration Platforms: a Preliminary Analysis”. Finally, in Chapter 8, “Emotion and Work: an Innovative Relationship?” is presented.

For possible use in final undergraduate management and/or industrial engineering courses or as a subject example on management innovation at the postgraduate level, this present book also can serve as a useful reference for academics, researchers, managers, engineers and others professionals in related areas within innovation management in research and industry.

The Editors acknowledge their gratitude to De Gruyter for this opportunity and for its professional support. Finally, we would like to thank all chapter authors for their interest and availability to work on this project.

January, 2015

Carolina Machado, Braga, Portugal
J. Paulo Davim, Aveiro, Portugal