Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- innovation nation by John Kao |Book Brief
- Innovation Nation by John Kao |Book BriefOne Missing IngredientOne piece of the innovation puzzle that the author seems to miss is that of the protection of property rights. This is one area where the US has historically scored well and is surely a competitive advantage when it comes to innovation....
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
Additional Resources
- innovation nation by John Kao |Book Brief
- In his book “Innovation Nation” author and fomer Harvard Business school professor, John Kao, explains how the United States, once the world’s leading innovator, is losing its standing in the world. Kao suggests steps the country should take to regain its innovative edge.
- Videos 2008-01-25
- HBR IdeaCast: Disruptive Innovation
- Disruptive innovation changes the game, winning not by doing something better but by doing it differently. Take the Nintendo Wii. Scott Anthony explains how the Wii's innovative controller, designed to be easy for non-gamers to use, helped the company expand the market for video games. Anthony explains how you can...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Innovation Every Day: Collaboration Unleashes Project Team Creativity
- An organization cannot flourish without innovation. By organization we mean any functional structure designed to generate benefits for its members or stakeholders: a nation state, a business, a community committee or non-governmental organization are just a few instances. What becomes of a nation without industries and technologies to propel its...
- White papers 2007-04-21
- Why Branding A Nation Is The Key In This Economy
- Brand-building, or image creation, and all other vehicles of marketing, are all tools to garner attention that should culminate in a "purchase decision." Likewise, when a nation advertises itself through an extensive branding program, it is to get initial attention from prejudiced, ignorant, or somewhat knowledgeable folks to begin to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Hidden Costs Of Technological Innovation: Effects Of Product Innovation
- The management of innovation literature assumes that product innovation, i.e., commercialized invention, is always beneficial for firm performance and survival. In contrast, organizational ecology proposes that innovation may have negative consequences for innovating firms. In this paper, the author argues that the positive and negative consequences of innovation are not...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Managing for Innovation the Only Sustainable Advantage: Four Steps to Successful Innovation
- Innovation is critical to the competitive success of virtually all companies. Whether an organization is on the leading edge, or following an imitation strategy, innovation is the only sustainable competitive advantage. Creativity and innovation are often used as synonyms terms. This is unfortunate because there is much more to true...
- White papers 2000-01-14
- Innovation And Diffusion
- Innovation is the ability to apply creative ideas and unexplored perspectives to problems and coming out with cutting-edge solutions. In today's dynamic and intensely competitive business environment, innovation forms a definitive tool for product differentiation. For innovation to succeed, it is imperative for the innovation process to diffuse through the...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Towards an Innovation-Driven Economy Through Industrial Policy-Making: An Evolutionary Analysis of Singapore
- Industrialisation has always constituted a major objective of development strategy and government policy. Through industrialisation, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their...
- White papers 2005-11-29
- A Missing Piece of the Innovation Puzzle
- Innovation is the key to survival. We all know this at a basic, Darwinian level. What may not be as widely appreciated is that innovation is becoming increasingly critical for established businesses. This runs counter to the popular notion of innovation as the purview of small startup companies. In fact,...
- White papers 2004-02-20
- To What Extent Will the Banking Industry Be Globalized - A Study of Bank Nationality and Reach in 20 European Nations
- The paper models two dimensions of bank globalization - bank nationality (a bank from the firm's host nation, its home nation, or a third nation) and bank reach (a global, regional, or local bank) using a two-stage nested multinomial logit model. The data set includes over 2,000 foreign affiliates of...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- What Have We Learned About Establishing Internal Security in Nation-Building?
- Comparing nine nation-building efforts in terms of how successful they were at establishing internal security, it was found that with two exceptions, most efforts were either unsuccessful or mixed. These findings were driven by differences in initial conditions in each country, as well by the inputs (e.g., the amount of...
- White papers 2005-07-21
- Cultivating The Habit Of Innovation
- Innovation is the ability to apply creative ideas and unexplored perspectives to problems and come up with cutting-edge solutions. Innovation is the process of ‘breaking new ground.’ Awareness of self and external environment is the starting point for the innovation process. Innovation involves analysis of myriad perspectives and culling out...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Innovation Discipline Model
- Innovation is about doing things differently and doing different things. It fails if costs exceed returns over time. It succeeds if returns exceed costs in amounts sufficient to reward shareholders. Innovation failure comes from both errors of commission and omission. Doblin's Innovation Discipline Model provides a framework for categorizing innovation...
- White papers 2006-07-19
- Managing Technology And Innovation
- Technology and innovation are considered two separate entities, but in reality the two work together. Technology is the methods, processes, and systems used to transform resources into products. On the other hand, innovation is a change in technology. However, when technology and innovation work together they form ‘technological innovation’ which...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Innovation Sourcing Strategy Matters
- It has been realized that the Innovation in products, services, and processes has been the key to long-term growth and competitive success. However, despite increasing investments in research and development, many firms are not achieving the benefits they seek from innovation. To ramp up their levels of innovation, companies have...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- The Invisible Advantage Of Innovation
- From the executive summary: ‘Innovation has always been a key to business success and wealth creation. It has always been a central driver of economic development. However, when people say ‘innovation’ they usually mean some new invention. To limit the discussion of innovation to new inventions or technologies is rather...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Innovation Incubator: Build It and Keep It Running
- Why do people need innovation? First, people need innovation because their rapidly changing technology demands it. One cannot afford to do "Business as usual," because what was best in its class yesterday is today's routine and tomorrow's technological dinosaur. One has to innovate just to stay up. Second, one needs...
- White papers 2005-03-12
- Managing For Innovation: The Only Sustainable Advantage
- From the executive summary: ‘Innovation is critical to the competitive success of virtually all companies. Whether an organization is on the leading edge, or following an imitation strategy, innovation is the only sustainable competitive advantage. Creativity and innovation are often used as synonymous terms. This is unfortunate because there is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Modeling Systemic Innovation In Design And Construction Networks
- This paper addresses the call in the innovation literature for fieldwork and theoretical research to better understand project-based forms of organizations. It contributes to a more complete understanding of innovation by extending previous organizational innovation theories to include systemic innovation in interorganizational networks. Because the model incorporates how one network...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
