Sources Of Innovation

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry Part Two Formulating Technological Innovation Strategy
Defining the Organizations Strategic Direction
Choosing Innovation Projects
Collaboration Strategies
Protecting Innovation
Organizing for Innovation
Managing the New Product Development Process
Managing New Product Development Teams
Crafting a Deployment Strategy Index

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Sometimes knowing a field too well can stifle creativity.

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The organization's structure,routines,and incentives can thwart individual creativity,but not amplify it.

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Sometimes paying people for suggestions undermines creativity because it focuses their shift on extrinsic motivation.

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Though a generalist by nature,inventors are specialists in the field in which they invent.

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Innovation often originates with those who create solutions for their own needs.

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The qualities that make people inventive do not necessarily make them entrepreneurial.

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Manufacturers typically create new product innovations in order to profit from the sale of the innovation to customers.

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Firms consider their in-house R&D to be their least important source of innovation,but still feel it is necessary to possess.

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The most frequent collaborations are between firms and their customers,suppliers,and local universities.

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A complementor is a company or individual that produces goods or services that enhance the value of another product.

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The creation of university technology transfer offices accelerated rapidly in the United States after the Bayh-Dole Act was passed.

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The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)program facilitates partnerships between small businesses and nonprofit research institutions.

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Science parks often give rise to technology clusters that have long-lasting and self-reinforcing advantages.

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Collaborative research is especially important in high-technology sectors.

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Technology clusters may span a region as narrow as a city or as wide as a group of neighboring countries.

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The degree to which innovative activities are geographically clustered does not depend on the national differences in the way technology development is funded or protected.

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The likelihood of technological spillovers varies across countries.

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A knowledge broker puts existing information to use in new and profitable ways.

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Research suggests that most innovation is due to the discovery of something fundamentally new.

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Which of the following products would be considered novel?

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A detergent advertises that it can remove spots.

A company announces it has produced a recreational hovercraft for sale in toy stores.

A cell phone company announces that it now offers text messaging.

A college announces it will install artificial turf on its football field.

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