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Les grandes inventions de l'humanité
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ISBN: 2040163794 9782040163792 Year: 1988 Volume: 9 Publisher: [Paris] : Bordas,

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Open and Closed Innovation : Different Cultures for Different Strategies
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ISBN: 9783834980908 3834909017 9783834909015 3834980900 Year: 2008 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag : Imprint: Gabler Verlag,

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Open Innovation is a phenomenon in both research and management practice. Since radical innovation or new business development often require external technologies or ways of commercialization, many firms have shifted from a Closed to an Open Innovation model. However, firms often face difficulties during the implementation. While the implementation effort usually focuses on external ideas and technologies as well as the processes to identify them, cultural challenges are neglected. Philipp Herzog develops a theoretical framework arguing that Open Innovation and Closed Innovation cultures need to be different (e.g. regarding the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome). Based on a multi-respondent survey among 120 R&D employees from three business units of a leading chemical firm, he provides empirical evidence for many of the hypothesized differences in innovation culture. The findings may also help firms cope with the challenges experienced in implementing the Open Innovation concept.


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How James Watt Invented the Copier : Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists
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ISBN: 1461408598 9786613445179 1283445174 1461408601 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history… Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many scientists who also earned a reputation in other areas of science. James Watt, for instance, is known for inventing the steam engine, yet most people do not know that he also invented the copier. Alexander Graham Bell of course invented the telephone, but only few know that he invented artificial breathing equipment, a prototype of the ‘iron lung’. Edmond Halley, whose name is associated with the comet that visits Earth every 75 years, produced the first mortality tables, used for life insurances. This entertaining book is aimed at anyone who enjoys reading about inventions and discoveries by the most creative minds. Detailed illustrations of the forgotten designs and ideas enrich the work throughout.

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