Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry

<p>Provocative and reflective this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’.</p><p>Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts Håkansson and Waluszewski invite the business-minded reader to consider the costs of adopting new knowledge and innovation within a business setting.</p><p>This book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>questions the long-held assumption that new knowledge and innovation are universally advantageous</li> <li>follows the tremor of an innovation as new knowledge reverberates through or is dampened by the larger economic community - including cultural structures the industrial standards and the foundational assumptions that rule a particular economic domain</li> <li>focuses in particular on the interfaces where the innovative agent connects to its customers suppliers and competitors.</li> </ul><p>An ideal reference source for postgraduate students taking advanced courses in science and technology studies innovation management industrial marketing and purchasing technological development and innovation systems.</p>