Includes bibliographical references (p. 452-459) and index.

Technology and industry evolution / Rajshree Agarwal and Mary Tripsas -- The evolution of markets : innovation adoption, diffusion, market growth, new product entry, and competitor responses / Venkatesh Shankar -- Understanding customer needs / Barry L. Bayus -- Product development as a problem-solving process / Christian Terwiesch -- Managing the 'unmanageables' of sustained product innovation / Deborah Dougherty -- Rival interpretations of balancing exploration and exploitation : simultaneous or sequential? / Eric L. Chen and Riitta Katila -- R&D project selection and portfolio management : a review of the past, a description of the present, and a sketch of the future / D. Brunner ... [et al.] -- Managing the innovative performance of technical professionals / Ralph Katz -- The economics and strategy of standards and standardization / Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango -- Intellectual property and innovation / Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Orchestrating appropriability : towards an endogenous view of capturing value from innovation investments / Henry Chesbrough -- Individual collaborations, strategic alliances and innovation : insights from the biotechnology industry / Paul Almeida, Jan Hohberger, and Pedro Parada -- Technology-based entrepreneurship / David H. Hsu -- Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship and innovation in large and small firms / David B. Audretsch -- The financing of innovation / Bronwyn H. Hall -- The contribution of public entities to innovation and technological change / Maryann P. Feldman and Dieter F. Kogler.