Innovation
Driving Product, Process, and Market Change
The MIT Slon Management Review Series
1. Edition June 2002
368 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7879-6213-5
John Wiley & Sons
Innovation represents the most important articles on the topic of innovation and features contributions from some of the world's top experts including Jordan J. Baruch, John Seely Brown, Anil Khurana, Constantinos Markides, Marc H. Meyer, Michael E. Porter, James Brian Quinn, Edward B. Roberts, Stephen R. Rosenthal, Harbir Singh, Robert I. Sutton, Karl Ulrich, James M. Utterback, Eric A. von Hippel, and others.
Introduction (Edward B. Roberts, Editor).
PART ONE: INNOVATING FROM THE INSIDE.
1. Strategic Innovation (Constantinos Markides).
2. Creativity Versus Structure: A Useful Tension (John Seely
Brown and Paul Duguid).
3. Integrating the Fuzzy Front End of New Product Development
(Anil Khurana and Stephen R. Rosenthal).
4. The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core Capability (Marc
H. Meyer and James M. Utterback).
5. Planning for Product Platforms (David Robertson and Karl
Ulrich).
PART TWO: INNOVATING WITH THE OUTSIDE.
6. Ally or Acquire? How Technology Leaders Decide (Edward B.
Roberts and Wenyun Kathy Liu).
7. Outsourcing Innovation: The New Engine of Growth (James Brian
Quinn).
8. How to Make Strategic Alliances Work (Jeffrey H. Dyer,
Prashant Kale, and Harbir Singh).
9. Innovation:Location Matters (Michael E. Porter and Scott
Stern).
PART THREE: NEW DIMENSIONS FOR INNOVATION.
10. Software-Based Innovation (James Brian Quinn, Jordan J.
Baruch, and Karen Anne Zien).
11. Innovation by User Communities: Learning from Open-Source
Software (Eric A. von Hippel).
12. Weird Ideas That Spark Innovation (Robert I. Sutton).
The Authors.
Index.
PART ONE: INNOVATING FROM THE INSIDE.
1. Strategic Innovation (Constantinos Markides).
2. Creativity Versus Structure: A Useful Tension (John Seely
Brown and Paul Duguid).
3. Integrating the Fuzzy Front End of New Product Development
(Anil Khurana and Stephen R. Rosenthal).
4. The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core Capability (Marc
H. Meyer and James M. Utterback).
5. Planning for Product Platforms (David Robertson and Karl
Ulrich).
PART TWO: INNOVATING WITH THE OUTSIDE.
6. Ally or Acquire? How Technology Leaders Decide (Edward B.
Roberts and Wenyun Kathy Liu).
7. Outsourcing Innovation: The New Engine of Growth (James Brian
Quinn).
8. How to Make Strategic Alliances Work (Jeffrey H. Dyer,
Prashant Kale, and Harbir Singh).
9. Innovation:Location Matters (Michael E. Porter and Scott
Stern).
PART THREE: NEW DIMENSIONS FOR INNOVATION.
10. Software-Based Innovation (James Brian Quinn, Jordan J.
Baruch, and Karen Anne Zien).
11. Innovation by User Communities: Learning from Open-Source
Software (Eric A. von Hippel).
12. Weird Ideas That Spark Innovation (Robert I. Sutton).
The Authors.
Index.
"We have found that the ideas contained in Innovation help us
enormously to develop strategies and tactics to achieve innovation
and change. Authors such as James Utterback, Brian Quinn, and
Edward Roberts are feeding us the concepts and tools that we
translate into our next generation product and business development
approaches."
--Ray Stata, founder and chairman, Analog Devices Inc.
"A finely tuned collection of significant articles on innovation
by one of its foremost students. Must reading for all managers of
research and technology."
--Michael F. Wolff, editor, Research-Technology Management
"Ed Roberts's wonderful compilation of articles shows you
why
successful innovation requires both teamwork and vision and how to
pull off this seemingly impossible combination in both large and
small organizations."
--Ray Kurzweil, winner of the National Medal of Technology, CEO of
KurzweilAI.net, and author of The Age of Spiritual
Machines
"With new products and processes, economic growth can go on
forever. Innovation lies at the heart of our economic success. No
one understands the complex forces that underlie the innovation
process better than Ed Roberts, and he has assembled in this book a
wonderful array of those insights. Managerial leaders and academics
alike will benefit from this set of unique readings."
--Lester Thurow, Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics
and
former dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
enormously to develop strategies and tactics to achieve innovation
and change. Authors such as James Utterback, Brian Quinn, and
Edward Roberts are feeding us the concepts and tools that we
translate into our next generation product and business development
approaches."
--Ray Stata, founder and chairman, Analog Devices Inc.
"A finely tuned collection of significant articles on innovation
by one of its foremost students. Must reading for all managers of
research and technology."
--Michael F. Wolff, editor, Research-Technology Management
"Ed Roberts's wonderful compilation of articles shows you
why
successful innovation requires both teamwork and vision and how to
pull off this seemingly impossible combination in both large and
small organizations."
--Ray Kurzweil, winner of the National Medal of Technology, CEO of
KurzweilAI.net, and author of The Age of Spiritual
Machines
"With new products and processes, economic growth can go on
forever. Innovation lies at the heart of our economic success. No
one understands the complex forces that underlie the innovation
process better than Ed Roberts, and he has assembled in this book a
wonderful array of those insights. Managerial leaders and academics
alike will benefit from this set of unique readings."
--Lester Thurow, Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics
and
former dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
EDWARD B. ROBERTS is the David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He is the founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and chairs the Sloan's faculty of management of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the author of Entrepreneurs in High Technology.