Sources Of Innovation

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry
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

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If an individual knows a field too well,it can stifle creativity.

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An individual with only a moderate degree of knowledge of a field will be able to produce more creative solutions than an individual with extensive knowledge of the field.

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An organization's overall creativity level is a simple aggregate of the creativity of the individuals it employs.

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Monetary rewards undermine creativity by encouraging employees to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivation.

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Inventors tendency toward introversion cause them to be good at manipulating concepts.

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The qualities that make people inventive also make them entrepreneurial.

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

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

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The terms research and development represent different kinds of investment in innovation-related activities.

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The science-push approach to research and development argued that innovation was driven by the perceived demand of potential users.

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Firms form alliances with competitors to jointly work on an innovation project or to exchange information.

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The intellectual property policies of a university embrace both patentable and unpatentable innovations.

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Incubators are regional districts,typically set up by government,to foster R&D collaboration between government,universities,and private firms.

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The decline in the government share of spending on R&D is largely due to the rapid increase in industry R&D funding rather than a real decline in the absolute amount spent.

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Collaborative research is prohibited in high-technology sectors.

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Knowledge that cannot be readily codified is called explicit knowledge.

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Proximity and interaction can directly influence firms' ability and willingness to exchange knowledge.

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Knowledge that is explicit requires more frequent and close interaction to be meaningfully exchanged than knowledge that is tacit.

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Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can be documented in written form.

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The degree to which innovative activities are geographically clustered is independent of the national differences in the way technology development is funded or protected.

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