
Fourth Generation R&D
Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 1999
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-471-24093-8 (ISBN)
Description
Praise for Fourth Generation R&D "A sweeping and insightfulanalysis of an architecture for innovation in the knowledgeeconomy. Technologists, strategists, and organizational architectswill all find this book worth reading, as will students of themodern organization." --John Seely Brown Chief Scientist, XeroxCorporation "The new realities of competition beg a new approach toinnovation and R Fourth Generation R&D answers that challenge.With lucid arguments and detailed case studies, Fourth GenerationR&D sketches a powerful new paradigm for planning and managinginnovation. Every manager concerned with innovation and its role asa strategic resource--that's to say, every manager--will profitfrom this new understanding." Lawrence Wilkinson President, GlobalBusiness Network "Fourth Generation R&D is a tour de force. Itssweep, depth, and use of graphics are all truly remarkable (not tomention its command of the literature on innovation). Thedistinctions it draws between continuous and discontinuousinnovation--and between tacit and explicit knowledge--arefundamental." --John Yochelson President, The Council onCompetitiveness
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
749 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-24093-8 (9780471240938)
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Persons
WILLIAM L. MILLER, PhD, now at Intel, has served on the board ofthe Industrial Research Institute and has twenty-nine years ofexperience managing industrial R&D. LANGDON MORRIS is Presidentof KMLab, Inc. and the author of Managing the Evolving Corporationand The Knowledge Channel.
Content
Introduction: Innovation in Crisis.
4th Generation R&D.
Competitive Architecture: The External Framework.
Organizational Capability: The Internal Framework.
The Knowledge Channel and Market Development.
Managing Knowledge and Financial Assets.
Organizational Architecture.
Organizational Capability Development.
The Innovation Business Process.
Notes.
Index.
4th Generation R&D.
Competitive Architecture: The External Framework.
Organizational Capability: The Internal Framework.
The Knowledge Channel and Market Development.
Managing Knowledge and Financial Assets.
Organizational Architecture.
Organizational Capability Development.
The Innovation Business Process.
Notes.
Index.