Author: Jan Verloop
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: innovation, laws, understanding, managing, insight
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2004-05-22
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0444516832
ISBN-13: 9780444516831

Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, entrepreneurship or venturing. This book is not about providing a series of recipes on innovation management or a collection of case stories on how to do innovation or not. The few examples given are well known innovations from (Shell) history and all of them have been described before in the literature. However, this book does not focus on the brilliant

Authors:J. G. Wissema, Jan Verloop,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: university, managing, transition, generation, third, towards
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1848442165
ISBN-13: 9781848442160

`In Central and Eastern Europe, universities are struggling to adapt to the new economic and institutional situations. The concept of the Third Generation University is powerful in giving direction. In addition, the book offers much practical advice, taken from the author’s experience as a consultant to universities.’ - Marjan Bojadzhiev, University American College Skopje, Macedonia `Although the quality of university management makes or breaks the effectiveness and efficiency of a university, most university managers come unprepared to the job while only few books and cours