Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management

Get complete, up-to-date and authoritative coverage of technology and innovation.


A broadly encompassing encyclopedia on the emerging topic of technology innovation and management (TIM), this volume covers a wide array of issues. TIM is a relatively new field and is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, marketing, organizational behavior, organization theory, physical and life sciences, and even law. All of these disciplines are represented in this volume, and their intersections are made clear.


Entries are contributed by scholars from around the world who are leading experts in their respective topics. This volume is appropriate for scholars who are new to this particular field, as well as industry practitioners interested in understanding the state of knowledge in these specific areas. Entries may also serve as useful instructional materials, given their span of coverage as well as their currency.


VK Narayanan is Stubbs Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Research at Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.


Gina O'Connor is Associate Professor of Marketing in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, U.S.A.

Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management .Proposal. Board of advisors.We plan to establish a group of four to five senior scholars to serve as board of advisors. The role will be to serve as sounding board of ideas as well as to nominate individuals for authors of various elements of the manuscript..A draft outline of the major themes..A first cut at the themes is as follows:.1. Technology : science and technology, types of technology, knowledge.2. Economics of technology: link to productivity, technological change.3. Technology evolution; S-curve, industry evolution, disruptive technologies, technology standards, dominant design, technology convergence, technology integration, path dependence.4. Technology and innovation: types of innovation, sources of innovation, models of innovation, diffusion of innovation, innovation and imitation, creativity and entrepreneurship.5. Technology and industry: clockspeed, collateral assets, complementary assets, types of industries, intellectual property regimes, network effects, externalities, lock outs and lock ins.6. Technology intelligence: sources, tools of forecasting.7. Technology strategy: capability based competition, types of strategy, objectives of strategy, chief technology officer, chief scientific officer, strategic alliances.8. Technology and product development: technology platform, product development process, lead user concept, market research types.9. Process technology.10. R intrapreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, corporate venturing, technology start ups.13. Organization designs: NVD, project team, spin-ins, spinout, matrix, dual ladder, leadership in technology,.14. Technology transfer and commercialization.15. Financing of technology: sources of financing, moral hazard, information asymmetry, signaling, pattern of financing, options theory.16. National innovation systems from selected countries.17. Emerging technologies; selected technologies holding potential[1].(These themes fall into into three categories:.1) A group of themes that are relatively enduring over time, and define the contours of the field;.2) A profile of national innovation systems from selected countries; and.3) A profile of selected emerging technologies..Tentative time table.A date of 2008 is feasible.[1] Italics indicate that these are topics that will require frequent changes )