Managing Innovation Driven Companies: Approaches in Practice

Emphasizing the practical side of Technology and Innovation Management this book includes significant contributions to the practice of strategizing, management of competences, and innovation management. The findings presented on these selected topics are research-based, however at the end of each contribution `managerial implications' cover the recommended implementation of the research results.

This book articulates the spirit of the European Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (EITIM). The Institute was founded in 2000 by researchers and teachers from leading European universities who shared, and still do share, a deep concern about Europe's significant underperformance regarding innovation, compared to the United States and Japan. Consequently the EITIM vision `To contribute to Europe's improved innovativeness' expresses the common motivation of the founding members to focus their professional efforts meaningfully on this issue.

Hugo Tschirky is Professor em. of Technology Management in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland.
Cornelius Herstatt is Professor at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.
David Probert is Reader in Technology Management at the Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing, UK.
Hans-Georg Gemuenden is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Technische Universitat (TU), Berlin, Germany.
Massimo G. Colombo is Professor of the Economics of Technical Change in the School of Management at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Thomas Durand is Professor of Business Strategy at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.
Petra C. De Weerd-Nederhof is Professor at the School of Management and Governance at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Tim Schweisfurth is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.