Description

Business and management approaches to innovation tend to focus on incremental changes to existing products and processes, such as new product development, design-thinking, and business model innovation. In contrast, Radical Innovation Challenges focusses on radical and breakthrough innovation, and identifies its distinct sources, organization, processes, and outcomes. This book illustrates conceptual models and practical methods to better understand and manage radical innovation, and provides an argument for an iterative coupling process, between knowledge-push and demand-pull challenges and opportunities.

The book draws upon a distinct interdisciplinary body of knowledge to provide a crucial insight into the latest research and experience, and demonstrates how radical innovation practices and policies can be applied to fundamental corporate and social challenges such as climate change.

Contents:

• About the Editor

• Introduction: A Clarion Call for More Radical Innovation (Joe Tidd)

• Radical Corporate Innovation:

  • A Quantum Leap? The Case for Radical Innovation (Joe Tidd)
  • Is Radical Innovation Management Misunderstood? Problematising the Radical Innovation Discipline (Jimmi Normann Kristiansen and Frank Gertsen)
  • Antecedents to Radical Innovations: A Longitudinal Look at Firms in the Information Technology Industry by Aggregation of Patents (Avimanyu Datta)
  • Understanding the Drivers of Radical and Incremental Innovation Performance: The Role of a Firm's Knowledge-Based Capital and Organisational Agility (Sebastian Eisele, Andrea Greven, Mareike Grimm, Denise Fischer-Kreer and Malte Brettel)
  • Blue Ocean or Fast-Second Innovation? A Four-Breakthrough Model to Explain Successful Market Domination (Bernard Buisson and Philippe Silberzahn)
  • The Value of Experience-Based Simulation in Garnering Support for Radically New Concepts (Julian Bauer, Fiona Schweitzer, Sven Heidenreich and Tobias Roeth)
  • The Role of Social Media for Radical Innovation in the New Digital Age (Denise Fischer, Jacqueline Prasuhn, Malte Brettel and Steffen Strese)
  • Incumbent's Curse Revisited: Are Firm Stereotypes Beneficial or Harmful for Established Companies Pursuing Radical Technological Innovations? (Nicholas Folger, Tim Kanis, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim and Isabell M Welpe)
  • A Values-Based Approach to Radical Innovation: Facilitating the Reinterpretation of Core Values Through Design-Driven Practices (Silvia Eleonora Castellazzi and Emilio Bellini)

• Climate Challenges:

  • Sustainable Innovation Types: A Bibliometric Review (Thomas Degler, Nivedita Agarwal, Petra A Nylund and Alexander Brem)
  • Synergy or Conflict? The Relationships Among Organisational Culture, Sustainability-Related Innovation Performance, and Economic Innovation Performance (Dietfried Globocnik, Romana Rauter and Rupert J Baumgartner)
  • Sustainability-Oriented Technology Exploration: Managerial Values, Ambidextrous Design, and Separation Drift (Erik G Hansen, Samuel Wicki and Stefan Schaltegger)
  • The Evolution of Capabilities Underpinning Business Model Innovation for Sustainability in Large Incumbent Firms (Jessica Lagerstedt Wadin and Lars Bengtsson)
  • R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation (Gunnar Pippel)
  • Innovation Management Responses to Regulation—SUP-Directive and Replacing Plastic (Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Eelis Paukku and Sanna Taskila)

Readership: Suitable for academics and post-graduates in the fields of business and management, particularly looking at innovation, technology and information management. Also suitable for professionals in related fields.
Key Features:

• Goes beyond incremental approaches to innovation, such as marketing and design-thinking
• Applies radical innovation practices to complex commercial and climate challenges