Innovation is a complex and uncertain process, a journey to create value from ideas. The good news is that we know a lot about it and how to organize and manage it.  This e-book draws that knowledge together in an accessible and easy to read format.

Our core textbook on the subject which has an extensive library of online support resources

and an online Instructors Guide.

Our main book on entrepreneurship, also with an extensive library of online support resources and an online Instructor's Guide

User inclusion in innovation is increasingly the target of policy rhetoric at both organizational and societal levels. And extensive research has demonstrated the potential contribution that users can make, both at the ‘front end’ of innovation with their ideas and insights and downstream, facilitating adoption and diffusion. However, translating this potential into practice remains problematic, not least because we need to understand more about how to hear user voices, amplify their insights, and provide practical channels for inclusion to ensure full co-creation of innovation. Our earlier book from 2019 (‘Responsible Innovation in Digital Health’, Edward Elgar) added to the growing body of knowledge around whether users can be involved, and this new book opens up the ‘how?’ theme.

This book focuses on what we know about creativity - at individual, group and organizational level - and how we can put that knowledge into practice.  It offers insights and activities to help develop creative capabilities

This book explores the challenge in scaling innovation beyond the initial start-up and in particular focuses on the challenge of assembling and running a value network, an ecosystem to create shared value.  Designed as a practical hands-on guide it is full of tools and templates to help explore this key issue in innovation.

Whether you are a student who wants to learn and acquire new capabilities for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), a teacher or lecturer trying to pass on the skills and capabilities of CIE to a new generation, or an industry professional responsible for skills development as part of a talent management strategy, learn how to create a supportive and useful learning environment for the future world of CIE.

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The Future of Learning Playbook provides a rich set of easy-to-use canvases, specific examples, and invites readers to begin a journey of reflection to design their own futures.

Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs builds on insights and knowledge from over 150 leading experts in the field. It provides a rich collection of materials for innovators, entrepreneurs and game designers that allows you to dive deep into innovation and entrepreneurship, into games and gamification. You can build on 36 gamification design patterns – like dilemma solving, experiential learning, innovation markets and storytelling – and use a game design canvas to create your own innovation games. Or you can customize some of the 70+ games featured in the book that are already in use by innovators, entrepreneurs and professional trainers. Additional resources are provided for teachers and game facilitators.

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Available as Open Access download

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An in-depth innovation history of the Hella company, once a start-up in the early days of the automobile industry and now one of Germany's top businesses, a major global player in car electronics and lighting

Based on a major international research programme this book explores some of the challenges opened up by the huge potential which digital technologies offer in healthcare.  In particular the book focuses on the possibilities for patient inclusion in the innovation process

Successful entrepreneurship requires a specialized mix of innovation, drive, business acumen, and communication; an entrepreneur sees the potential and pitfalls in any idea, and understands the product, the market, and the business climate well enough to make smart decisions for the venture. This book is designed to go beyond the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship and help readers develop the critical foundation referred to as “entrepreneurial thinking.”

Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is to have world-class operations management in any organisation. This new edition pays equal attention to manufacturing and service sectors. It includes numerous references to, and discusses, major changes taking place in the business world, including 3-D printing; virtual organisations; Cloud – Big Data and the Internet of Things; Servitization, global markets, ongoing innovation and managing within complex supply networks. Cases are included from a range of settings across the globe.