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Innovations today are the products of tomorrow -- this has to be the maxim of top management in order to successfully introduce innovative products and services to the market. This book examines innovation management from a network perspective. Several renowned authors from practice and scientific world alike consider different aspects of innovation management in the context of global networks. This will include the illustration of its challenges and chances as well as the development of promising strategies for innovation management in networks. Recommendations will be derived that help top management to utilise innovations for the sustainable development of the company. Among other aspects, the innovation process, innovation co-operation, personnel aspects as well as marketing issues and innovation tools will be discussed. This book has a clear focus on innovation in practice as many cases among various branches including the service sector are presented. Nevertheless, empirical results from selected studies will be illustrated that make this book even a valuable reading for scientific researchers of innovation management as well as interested students of this field.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Inga-Lena Darkow, Assistant Professor, is Research Director of Innovation and Logistics at the Supply Management Institute SMI and is responsible for the DHL Innovation Center. Her research field focuses on logistics management and innovation management, especially in the logistics service industry. Inga-Lena Darkow manages the Bachelor, Diploma and Master programs at the SMI. She studied industrial engineering and management at the Technische Universitat Berlin as well as at the University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Great Britain. After her studies, she continued with her doctoral thesis concerning logistics controlling at the Technische Universitat Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Baumgarten. Inga-Lena Darkow has been lecturer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, logistics and supply chain management for the past three years. Prof. Corinne Faure, Ph.D. studied Business at ESSEC in France, graduating in 1988. She obtained her Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Florida in 1995. Her dissertation research on cross-functional teams was supported by the Marketing Science Institute in Boston. She served on the marketing faculty at Virginia Tech (USA) and HEC (France) before joining the European Business School (Germany) in 2001, where she became Chair for International Management in 2004. She lectures on marketing and international management in diverse MBA and executive programs. Her main research interests are in the field of marketing and innovation in an international context. She has published in a number of outlets including the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Creative Behavior, and Recherche et Applications en Marketing. Prof. Dr. Ronald Gleich, a former partner of Horvath & Partners Management Consultants and head of the consultancy's Stuttgart office and its competence center for managerial accounting and controlling, became a member of the faculty at the European Business School (ebs) as head of the Endowed Chair for Industrial Management (with special focus on management accounting and innovation management) in 2003. In 2004/2005, as a member of the ebs management board, he was responsible for the financial and commercial development and the programs of executive education. Currently, he is the managing director of the ebs corporate solutions GmbH , which offers tailor-made programs in the field of executive education. Besides his permanent involvement at the Chair, Prof. Gleich is the founder and editor of the journal Performance Excellence - Zeitschrift fur Controlling und Innovationsmanagement ZfCI (publishing house: FAW-Verlag in Bamberg). Additionally, he has published numerous books as author and editor in the research areas of management accounting and innovation management.

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