CFP: Palgrave Book on the Evolution of Innovation Management

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From: Alexander Brem [mailto:brem at idee-innovation.de] 
Date: Mon 26 Sep 2011 13:48

Call for Papers/Book Chapters Palgrave Macmillan

Evolution of Innovation Management -
New ways for innovations in an international context

edited by

Prof. Dr. Alexander Brem
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
School of Business and Economics
Lange Gasse 20
90403 Nuremberg
GERMANY
brem at idee-innovation.de	Prof. Dr. Éric Viardot
EADA - Escuela de Alta Dirección y
Administración 
c/ Aragó, 204
08011 Barcelona
SPAIN
eviardot at eada.edu	
Background

Innovation provides a strong competitive advantage and is one of the best
ways to speed up the rate of change and adaptation to the global
environment. According to a recent survey by McKinsey, 84 percent of
executives say innovation is extremely or very important to their companies'
growth strategy. Concurrently, the innovation topic is also regaining more
and more visibility and interest among the academic communities worldwide.

Though, some of the challenges of innovating are remarkably consistent, the
recent period has seen the emergence of new ways for stimulating and
managing the innovation process, especially in an international perspective.
Even if these processes are taking place in very different industries, there
are many parallels in successfully managing them.

The purpose of this book is to inventory those new routes, to explore them
in depth and to assess their value both for markets and companies. More
specifically, the book would be organized around three themes:
*	How to stimulate and nurture innovations
*	How to commercialize innovations
*	How to lead and manage the innovation process

With this edited book, hence, we want to give an overview of current trends
in an international context. All submitted chapter proposals will be
double-blind reviewed to ensure the highest quality.

Book Chapter Synopses with suggested topics

1.	New ways of stimulating innovations
1.	Frugal innovation coming from emergent countries who are redesigning
products to reduce costs not just by 10%, but by up to 90% and are sparse in
the use of raw materials and their impact on the environment
2.	Symbiotic innovations (Customer driven and Open innovations)
3.	Ambidextrous innovations coming from companies which are able to
focus and manage both engineering and marketing teams equally
4.	Embedded organic innovations which require firms to integrate
substantially into their surrounding communities in order to assure the
assimilation of their exploitable knowledge. The embedding process can be
implicit, explicit, organic or mechanic, explorative or exploitative
depending on the nature and timing of the innovation process
5.	Integration of and in international networks
6.	Citizensourcing and Crowd Sourcing as new forms of end-user
integration in times of mass customization
7.	Cross-industry innovation to foster lateral thinking and creativity
8.	Global R&D Management in a globally connected environment
				
1.	New approaches to the commercialization of innovations
1.	The valorization of IP  (as illustrated in the current legal
conflicts  between the major players in the telecommunication and computer
industries)
2.	Original pricing models for value based innovations
3.	The role of social networks in the distribution of innovation
4.	Original communication about and for innovations
5.	Culture specific innovation management, especially in an
international context
6.	Company internal marketing to convince employees and stakeholders of
new innovative products and services
				
2.	New modes for leading and managing the innovation process
1.	Integrated innovation (Managing technology and organization changes
simultaneously)
2.	Developing innovations with knowledge management methods
3.	Incorporating design and creativity in the innovation process and
their role for fostering the innovation process
4.	Developing roadmaps for linking the exploitation of current
technologies and process with the generation of innovations
5.	Professional Information Technology support for innovation processes
6.	Motivation and integration of internal and external stakeholders

3.	Perspectives and challenges for innovation managers
1.	Job specifications and requirements in an international context
2.	Identification and motivation of internal and external promoters,
i.e. key people pushing the innovation processes
3.	Innovation Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (development and
management)
4.	Internal organization and networking, especially new forms of
centralized and decentralized forms, modes of collaboration and teamwork
5.	Education and training for globalized thinking
6.	Advanced training and education for life-long learning

Timeline

In advance, all potential authors must commit on our publication schedule to
make sure that contributors will follow the same format.

A sample chapter and author guideline will be provided upon request.


Full paper submissions due: 
January 31st, 2012

Results of double-blind reviews available: 
March 31st, 2012

Revised paper submission deadline: 
June 1st, 2012

Book publication: 
December 2012

If you are interested to submit a paper, please contact either 
Alexander Brem (brem at idee-innovation.de) or Éric Viardot (eviardot at eada.edu)

The CfP as well as the Author Guidelines are available online:
http://www.ideeinnovation.de/forschung/download-palgrave/