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Industrial innovation is essential for national and corporate competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants and consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public policy makers and all students of industry and business.

This Handbook of Industrial Innovation brings together specially commissioned contributions by thirty world-leading experts on a wide range of issues concerning innovation. The first section of the book provides an introduction to the significance and process of industrial innovation, and to the contexts or 'systems' within which it occurs. A series of sectoral and industrial studies (section 2) is followed by assessments of the key issues affecting innovation (section 3). A later section 4 examines one of the major constraints on successful innovation: the strategic management of technology in both products and processes. The concluding section discusses future challenges of innovation in a global perspective.

As well as discussing the benefits of innovation, the problems and challenges of the processes, management and outcomes of innovation are raised throughout the book. Select bibliographies chosen by international experts are included to ensure that this comprehensive reference tool is an indispensable guide for students, scholars, innovators and policy makers.

(Source: Publisher's flyer)