Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change: A Research Handbook

by Jerald Hage, Marius Meeus

Overview

Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as "gales of creative destruction".

This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new approach to the study of innovation. It is the editors' conviction that this approach must accomplish several objectives: it must recognise that innovation encompasses changes in organizations and society, as well as products and processes; it must be genuinely interdisciplinary and include contributes from economics, sociology, management and political science; it must be international, to reflect both different patterns or systems of innovation, and different research traditions; and it must reflect the fundamental changes taking place in science, research and knowledge creation at all levels.

To this end they have gathered together a distinguished group of economists, sociologists, political scientists, and organization, innovation and institutional theorists to both assess current research on innovation, and to set out a new research agenda. This has been achieved through careful planning and development of the project, and also through the ensuing structure of the book which looks in turn at Product and Process Innovation (perhaps the best established focus of existing research on innovation), Scientific Research (assessing the changing character of basic research and science policy); Knowledge Dynamics in Context (encompassing organizational learning in all its aspects); and Institutional Change (an analysis of the institutional context that can shape, enable and constrain innovation).

This carefully integrated and wide ranging book will be an ideal reference point for academics and researchers across the Social Sciences interested in all dimensions of innovation—be they in the field of Management Studies, Economics, Organization Studies, Sociology, Political Science and Science and Technology Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199573455
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/22/2009
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jerald Hage is Director of the Center of Innovation in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland.
Marius Meeus is Professor of Innovation and Organization at the University of Utrecht.

Table of Contents

1. Product and Process Innovation, Scientific Research, Knowledge Dynamics, and Institutional Change: An Introduction, Marius Meeus and Jerald HageSection I: Product and Process Innovation2. Introduction, Marius Meeus and Charles Edquist3. Product and Process Innovation: A Review of Organizational and Environmental Determinants, Faribroz Dmanapour and Deepa Aravind4. Interorganizational Relations and Innovation: Review and Speculation, Marius Meeus and Jan Faber5. Knowledge-based View of Radical Innovation: Toyota Prius Case, Ikujiro Nonaka and Vesa Peltokorpi6. Markets and Industrial Innovation, Stan Metcalfe7. Can Regulations Induce Environmental Innovations? An Analysis of the Role of Regulations in the Pulp and Paper Industry in Selected Industrialized Countries, James Foster, Mikael Hildén, and Niclas Adler8. From Theory to Practice: The Use of the Systems of Innovation Approach in Innovation Policy, Cristina Chaminade and Charles EdquistSection II: Scientific Research9. Introduction, Gretchen Jordan and Jerald Hage10. Factors Influencing Advances in Science and Technology: Variation due to Diversity in Research Profiles, Gretchen Jordan11. Network Attributes Impacting the Generation and Flow of Knowledge Within and From the Basic Science Community, Susan Mohrman, Jay Galbraith, and Peter Monge12. Innovation, Learning, and Macro-Institutional Change: The Limits of the Market Model as an Organizing Principle for Research Systems, Luke Georghiou13. How is Innovation Influenced by Science and Technology Policy Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons, Stefan Kuhlmann and Philip Shapira14. Two Styles of Knowing and Knowledge Regimes: Between 'Explicitation' and 'Exploration' Under Conditions of 'Functional Specialization' or 'Fragmental Distribution', Werner RammertSection III: Knowledge Dynamics in Context15. Introduction, Harro van Lente and Susan Mohrman16. Building Innovation Capabilities: The Development of Design-Oriented Organizations, Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Lemasson, and Benoit Weil17. New Sources of Radical Innovation Research-Technologies: Transversity and Distributed Learning in a Post-Industrial Order, Terry Shinn18. How Markets Matter: Radical Innovation, Societal Acceptance and the Case of Genetically Engineered Food, Eric Jolivet and Marc Maurice19. Prospective Structures of Science and Science Policy, Harro van Lente20. The Role of Education and Training Systems in Innovation, David FinegoldSection IV: Institutional Chance21. Introduction, Jerald Hage22. A Path Dependent Perspective on Institutional and Organizational Factors Shaping Major Scientific Discoveries, J. Rogers Hollingsworth23. Turning Tracks? Path Dependence, Technological Paradigm Shifts, and Organizational and Institutional Change, Frans van Waarden and Herman Oosterwijk24. Patterns of Institutional and Societal Change, Jerald Hage25. Export the Silicon Valley to Europe: How Useful is Comparative Institutional Theory?, Steven Casper26. What's New? General Patterns fo Planned Macro-Institutional Change, John Campbell27. Insights for R&D Managers, Parry M. Norling28. Conclusion