Management of technology and innovation : competing through technological excellence.

Print version9788132100836.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This edition offers an understanding of the management of technology and innovation, not in isolation, but as a dynamic integrated system connected to organizational culture, knowledge management and value creation. To enhance the understanding of the hypercompetitive industrial markets of the globe, it carries 2 chapters focusing on how technological innovation can lead to wealth creation.

Print version record.

Technology as the driving force of global industrial competition -- The axes and atlas of technology -- Strategic management of technology -- Productivity and incremental innovation -- Technology absorption -- Structure of world class manufacturing -- Crucial issues in flexible technology -- Strategic evaluation of technological investments -- The product development cycle -- integration of design and manufacturing -- Management of technological innovation -- Technology fusion and the new R & D -- Core competencies in technology and its commercialization -- Structural imperatives of technology management -- Building organization culture -- The organization as a laboratory for learning -- Role, rationale, and requisites of a national technology policy -- Coping with continuous change -- the structure of the Japanese innovation system -- Spectrum of technological excellence and generation of wealth -- Prosperity of companies and countries -- Is social capital the missing resource?

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