Book description
The book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is pervasive in all facets of endeavors, including business, industrial, government, the military, and even academia. It presents chapters that provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of science and technology assets for innovation applications.
By introducing Innovation, the book and offers different viewpoints, both qualitative and quantitative. It includes the role that systems can play and discusses approaches along technical and process issues. There is a showcase of innovation applications, and coverage on how to manage innovation individually as well as within a team and it also includes how to develop, manage, and sustain innovation in various organizations. Open-ended questions and exercises are included at the end of chapters with no need for a solutions manual.
Written for the advance-level textbook market as well as for the professional reader, it targets those within the engineering, business, and management fields.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1 Systems Thinking for Innovation
- Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Innovation: Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques
- Chapter 3 Set-Theoretic Systems for Innovation
- Chapter 4 Half-life of Innovation Using Learning Curves
- Chapter 5 Innovation Economic Analysis
- Chapter 6 Human-Systems Integration for Innovation
- Chapter 7 Innovation through Industrial Engineering Techniques
- Chapter 8 Managing Innovation Projects
- Chapter 9 Utility Modeling for Innovation
- Chapter 10 Innovation Workforce Development and Management
- Appendix: Technical Conversion Factors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Innovation Fundamentals
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2021
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781000423129
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