Joe Tidd

University of Sussex · Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

Welcome to the 25th special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM conference Innovation and Circular Economy in June 2023. From this pool of more than 280 potential papers, fifteen were selected for further review, and the eleven papers published in this issue are the results subsequent review and revision. We a...

This book has been developed specifically for students of Business and Management Studies, and for Science and Engineering students studying courses on innovation and/or entrepreneurship. In this fourth edition, we were inspired by the pioneering scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, to attempt to...

Most of the fundamental interdisciplinary research and knowledge base on technology and innovation management was conducted in the 1970-1990s, but since then studies by management disciplines and business school functional groups have fragmented the field into more narrow disciplinary questions and solutions, to the detriment of innovation research...

Incremental innovation has become the norm as the influence of business and management disciplines and functions have come to dominate research and practice—for example, stan�dard processes for product development, design-thinking to improve existing user practices and superficial business model variations. Such incremental approaches to managing i...

Business and management approaches to innovation tend to focus on incremental changes to existing products and processes, such as new product development, design-thinking, and business model innovation. In contrast, this book focusses on radical and breakthrough innovation, and identifies its distinct sources, organization, processes, and outcomes....

Incremental innovation has become the norm as the influence of business and management disciplines and functions have come to dominate research and practice—for example, standard processes for product development, design-thinking to improve existing user practices and superficial business model variations. Such incremental approaches to managing in...

Welcome to the 24th special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM conference Innovating in a Digital World held in Copenhagen in June 2022. From this pool of more than 270 potential papers, twelve were selected for further review, and the nine papers published in this issue are the results subsequent review and...

If a business had two similar manufacturing sites that failed to share best practice processes, the chief operating officer would be seen as negligent. Yet, according to our latest research, the same thinking doesn’t seem to apply to sharing innovation best practices, despite its importance for growth and competitiveness. Why is this, and what ca...

Focussing on radical and breakthrough innovation, this book provides a crucial insight into over 50 years of research and experience, and illustrates how the pioneering work on innovation dynamics can provide a deeper understanding of radical innovation to inform future research, policy and practice, in contrast to conventional incremental business...

In the new global digital economy, holistic digitalisation has become central for all non-profit and for-profit institutions. Recent developments in digital initiatives have heightened the need to investigate holistic digitalisation. This paper aims to develop a meta-view of holistic digitalisation consisting of several fundamental perspectives for...

Welcome to the 23rd special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM virtual conference Innovating our Common Future held in June 2021. From this pool of more than 300 potential papers, twelve were selected for further review, and the seven papers published in this issue are the results subsequent review and revisi...

This special issue calls for submissions of empirical and conceptual papers and studies that tackle the challenges and opportunities presented by holistic digitalization. We seek contributions that involve case studies, approaches, and tools offering insights for digital maturity, digital strategy, digital transformation, and digital implementation...

Workshop to discuss variations of innovation management practices across business units.

The IJIM is celebrating its 25th birthday, and for a limited time the publishers are offering free access to 25 of the most popular papers published.

Knowledge Management focuses on identifying, sharing, storing, and exploiting internal knowledge, whereas Open Innovation is more concerned with sources of external knowledge. However, this simple dichotomy between open and closed approaches is unhelpful and not realistic. Instead, it is the interaction between internal and external knowledge that...

Welcome to the 22nd special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM virtual conference Innovating in Times of Crisis held in June 2020. From this pool of more than 300 potential papers, twelve were selected for further review, and the six papers published in this issue are the results subsequent review and revisio...

In this seventh edition, we continue our tradition of differentiating our work from that of others by developing its unique characteristics: • Strong evidence-based approach to the understanding and practice of managing innovation, drawing upon thousands of research projects, and “Research Notes” on the very latest research findings. Managing Innov...

The ISO56002 international standard for managing innovation systems was published in 2019. In this paper, we review the rationale, the key features, and the evidence base for this new standard. The primary objective of the standard is to promote the professionalisation of the field by providing a framework for management and organisational practice...

Welcome to the 21st special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM conference in Florence in June 2019. From this pool of more than 300 potential papers, ten were selected for further review, and the nine papers published in this issue are the results subsequent review and revision. The range of topics spans entr...

There is no doubt that digital technologies have the potential for disruptive innovation in a wide range of sectors, both in manufacturing and services, and the commercial and social domains. However, popular commentaries on the potential of digital innovation to disrupt have suffered from two extreme positions: either, simplistic technological det...

Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management and provides an international, disciplinary approach across its br...

Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management and provides an international, disciplinary approach across its br...

Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management and provides an international, disciplinary approach across its br...

Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, published by World Scientific, and provides an international, dis...

International innovation mainly happens within the context of MNCs. These firms usually have enough resources to foster innovation at different locations all over the world, with distributed competences and organizational units. Since the late 1980s, multinational companies (MNCs) from Europe and North America are shifting their production to Asian...

Welcome to the 20th Special Issue of the International Journal of Innovation Management (IJIM) for the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM Innovation Conference at Stockholm in June 2018. From this pool of 250 potential papers, nine were selected for further review, and...

This book provides the knowledge necessary for succeeding in a world where companies increasingly work side-by-side with customers to create new products and services. It is a pivotal navigation tool that helps cruise the ocean of customer integration methods and explains how the methods work, when to choose which, and how to seize advantages while...

Managing Innovation is the bestselling text for graduate and undergraduate students and a classic in the field. Emphasizing practical, evidence based tools and resources, this title provides students with the knowledge base to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development. The holistic approach addresses the interplay betw...

New ventures that innovate are much more likely to create value, both private and social, but few new ventures are successful, and fewer manage to grow and prosper. Part of the challenge lies in the way we bridge the gap between a great idea and realizing its value, whether commercial or social. We now have a great deal of research understanding ab...

Innovation management is inherently inter-disciplinary, but it is much more than simply applying business and management disciplines to innovation, and over time the field has developed a distinct body of knowledge. However, in this paper, we argue that the field of innovation management has failed to fully benefit from the proliferation of relevan...

Welcome to the 18th special issue of the IJIM for ISPIM. This draws upon papers submitted to the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Vienna in June 2017. From this pool of 300 potential papers, nine were invited for formal review by the IJIM, and the six papers published in this issue are the results of review and revision. The papers include developmen...

Since the pioneering work scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship have evolved to become two separate and distinct disciplines. Schumpeter 1 focused on the contributions of entrepreneurial startups and smaller firms, whereas Schumpeter 2 emphasized the role of formal research, development...

There are two traditional views of the role of intellectual property (IP) within the field of innovation management: in innovation management research, as an indicator or proxy for innovation inputs or outputs, e.g. patents or licensing income; or in innovation management practice, as a means of protecting knowledge. Exploiting Intellectual Propert...

Innovation management practices (IMPs) represent the codification of innovation research and management experience, and offer the potential to improve innovation performance. Studies suggest limited awareness of IMPs amongst practitioners, and even lower rates of application, and we know little of their perceived importance or effectiveness in diff...

Business Model Innovation (BMI) involves the integration and adaptation of capabilities, and the exploitation of these novel combinations to create and capture value in new ways. However, studies focusing on the relationships between capabilities, business model innovation and firm performance are rare. The composite model presented here is derived...

The management of technology (MOT) covers all the procedures needed to design and use technology by organizations to achieve economic and social objectives (Collins et al., Int J Technol Manag 6:3–28, 1991: 6). As such, it covers the acquisition, exploitation and transfer of technology, ‘new product development, project management, entrepreneurship...

The management of technology (MOT) covers all the procedures needed to design and use technology by organizations to achieve economic and social objectives. As such, it covers the acquisition, exploitation and transfer of technology, ‘new product development, project management, entrepreneurship, technology forecasting and planning, innovation and...

An important challenge in open innovation is the capability to absorb and exploit external inbound knowledge, and how internal R&D may facilitate or hinder this. Conventionally, internal R&D expenditure is used as a proxy for absorptive capacity, but in the context of open innovation, this can be problematic. Internal R&D may also constrain present...

By the end of this chapter you will develop an understanding of: • what 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship' mean – and how they are essential for survival and growth • innovation as a process rather than a single fl ash of inspiration • the diffi culties in managing what is an uncertain and risky process • the key themes in thinking about how to ma...

Business model innovation (BMI) often involves the acquisition of external resources, their integration with and adaptation to internal capabilities and the exploitation of these novel combinations to create and capture value in new ways. However, studies focusing on the relationships among capabilities, BMI and firm performance are rare. In this p...

Research on innovation has focussed on management structures, processes and tools, whereas research on entrepreneurship and creativity has been more interested in individual personal traits. However, many of the most successful innovative firms and technologies were co-created, by multiple founders. Moreover, these founders typically have different...

This first edition of Strategic Innovation Management is an exciting new addition to the established bestselling texts Managing Innovation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Joe Tidd and John Bessant. Aimed at students taking courses in business studies and management, as well as non-specialist courses in other disciplines, this book pr...

Technology fusion involves the combination and transformation of a number of different core technologies in order to create new product markets. The key element of technology fusion is that it is both complementary and cooperative. Typically, it is the result of reciprocal and substantial R&D expenditure by companies from a range of industries and...

Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value crea...

Open innovation has become a normative model. However, there is relatively little evidence on its efficacy in different contexts or the specific mechanisms needed to support its implementation. In this study we compare the development of two types of service across two contrasting approaches to development. The first approach, could be characterize...

Innovation management focuses too much on processes and tools, whereas entrepreneurship is preoccupied with individual personal traits. However, many of the most successful innovations were co-created by multiple entrepreneurs, and it is this interaction of talent that is at the core of radical innovation, what we call Conjoint Innovation. We exami...

There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle differences in focus: Knowledge management — how...

There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle differences in focus: •Knowledge management — how...

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The purpose of this study is to provide the knowledge to understand and the skills to manage innovation at the operational and strategic levels. It integrates the management of market, technological and organizational change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations. The analysis suggests that it is no longer...

The related concepts of open innovation and user-centric innovation are currently popular in the literature on technology and innovation management. In this paper, we attempt to address two shortcomings to their practical application. First, the precise mechanisms supporting open and user innovation in different industrial contexts are poorly speci...

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Introduction Service Innovation Research and Practice Evidence and Experience from the United States and United Kingdom Toward an Integrated Process for Service Innovation Appendix A: Types of Companies in Samples Appendix B: Measures References and Further Reading

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The current ineffective capital market for young, high impact firms should not be seen as exclusively a difficulty of either the supply of finance or the demand for finance. Rather, the central concern is better understood as that of a ‘thin market’ where limited numbers of investors and entrepreneurial growth firms within the economy have difficul...

This published paper should be read in conjunction with a working paper also on ResearchGate: Hales & Tidd (2006), Routines and representations at work- Observing the architecture of conceptual design. This earlier report presents a more extended view that addresses issues of 'context' and 'architecture' too. In this present article, using observa...

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This paper highlights the role of visual materials in the evolution of business knowledge. It describes a detailed qualitative study of visual practices in two contrasting design settings: an architectural practice and a high-tech equipment manufacturer. In it we build on a practice-based perspective to understanding organizational knowledge and kn...