Information for Innovation: Managing Change from an Information Perspective

by Stuart Macdonald

Overview

Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Here, Stuart Macdonald finds information central to a variety of business/economics disciplines, from patents to high technology, from corporate strategy to industrial espionage. In doing so, he reveals the rather tricky role that information plays in current processes of innovation and change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198288251
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/11/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Nature of Information2. Change and Innovation3. Sources of Information for Change and Innovation4. The Flow of Information5. The Mixing of Information6. Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor7. Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information8. Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks9. Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition10. Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture11. The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System12. Information and Control: Strategic Change in the OrganizationConcluding Thoughts