Management of Future Innovative Firms and Networks

摘要

The main focus of this publication is the different aspects of managing innovative firms and their networks in the future. The premise of our approach is that many new changes in innovation and management area are happening at the same time, which will profoundly influence how firms and networks will compete and prosper in the future. The firms and networks have to be able to renew their management and organization as well as their products, services and marketing practices. The publication will provide new knowledge on the questions of renewal of the management of future innovative organizations. Innovation is typically linked to business renewal, growth, and competitiveness. The assertion is that innovation is always a complex and uncertain activity. Innovation is more than just one idea or invention. Innovation can be product, process, organizational or paradigmatic innovation as well as network and customer management innovation. Innovation is composed of the new arrangement of existing or new elements of business systems.