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FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE
Measuring Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation(Second Edition)
edited by Joe Tidd (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK)
Joe Tidd is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management and Deputy Director of SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK and Visiting Professor at University College London, Copenhagen Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. He was previously Head of the Management of Innovation Specialisation and Director of the Executive MBA Programme at Imperial College. He has worked as policy adviser to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), responsible for industrial innovation and advanced technologies, presented expert evidence to three Select Committee Enquiries held by the House of Commons and House of Lords. He is an academic member of the Steering Committee for the DTI Innovation Review, which resulted in the DTI Innovation Report: Competing in the Global Economy (December 2003). He is also a member of the SEEDA (South East England Development Agency) Innovation Advisory Panel. He is the winner of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contribution to management teaching and research, and the Epton Prize from the R&D Society. He has written six books and more than 60 papers on the management of technology and innovation. His most recent books are Meeting the Innovation Challenge: Leadership for Transformation and Growth, Service Innovation: Organisational Responses to Technological Opportunities and Market Imperatives, and Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organisational Change. He is also Managing Editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management.
The business and academic communities continue to have an interest in the concepts of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organisational learning and innovation — specifically, how an organisation identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services.
The contributors to this book include leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Adopting a practical but rigorous approach to the subject, they focus on the measurement, management and improvement of organisational, technological and market competencies, and identify the relationships with strategic, operational and financial performance.
In this second edition, the original material is updated and three new chapters are added, reflecting the latest developments in the field.
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