Stuart Macdonald

Information for Innovation

Managing Change from an Information Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All are particularly enthusiastic about the innovation which springs from information. Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing this new information with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex information transactions are required rather than simple information transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of information. This book contrasts the way innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas from eighteenth-century agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corporate strategy to patents and independent inventors with how it appears from what is termed an 'information perspective', that is one that puts information first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (and organization) should be considered.

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Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Here, Stuart Macdonald finds information central to a variety of business/economics disciplines, from patents to high technology, from corporate strategy to industrial espionage. In doing so, he reveals the rather tricky role that information plays in current processes of innovation and change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780198288251
• ISBN-10: 0198288255
• Artikelnr.: 21276459

Autorenporträt

Co-editor of the journal Prometheus (Carfax) 1977-87 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Department of Economics, University of Queensland

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Nature of Information
* 2: Change and Innovation
* 3: Sources of Information for Change and Innovation
* 4: The Flow of Information
* 5: The Mixing of Information
* 6: Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent
Inventor
* 7: Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information
* 8: Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks
* 9: Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition
* 10: Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century
Agriculture
* 11: The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System
* 12: Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization
* Concluding Thoughts