Serendipitous and Strategic Innovation: A Systems Approach to Managing Science-Based Innovation

by Shantha Liyanage

Innovation is a time-consuming process that involves invention as a beginning and a marketable service or product as an end. But innovation itself, once concluded, is not necessarily a constructive act as some innovations yield positive and some negative results. The way we recognize and develop innovation--so often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginning--is thus a matter of primary importance in today's world where new thoughts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567204872
• ISBN13: 9781567204872
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"