Information for Innovation: Managing from an Information Perspective

Innovation usually requires new info. Finding, acquiring, & mixing this new info. with that already in use presents problems, not least because complex info. transactions are required rather than simple info. transfer. Solutions can be devised, but only by accommodating the characteristics of info. This vol. contrasts the way that innovation is normally regarded in a variety of areas -- from 18th-cent. agriculture to high technology, from technology transfer to industrial espionage, from corp. strategy to patents & independent inventors -- with how it appears from what is termed an Ôinfo. perspective', one that puts info. first. The results are intriguing, suggesting that radically different approaches to innovation (& organization) are worth some consideration.Macdonald, Stuart is the author of 'Information for Innovation: Managing from an Information Perspective', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756795184 and ISBN 0756795184.