Leading and Managing Creators, Inventors, and Innovators : The Art, Science, and Craft of Fostering Creativity, Triggering Invention, and Catalyzing Innovation

The development of an enterprising culture is a primary objective of progressive nations and organisations.

Entrepreneurial activity creates business diversity, reduces reliance on a single industry or natural resource, and creates the capabilities to respond quickly to threats and opportunities.

Entrepreneurs, and the small and medium-sized businesses they build, represent as much as seventy percent of the economic base of industrialised countries, and even more in the developing world.

While entrepreneurship may occur as a natural result of personal drive, it occurs most often, most robustly, and most sustainably in environments designed to encourage it.

This book showcases emerging research, theory, and practice in the management of creativity, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Featuring cases and examples from around the world and from a diverse array of industries, the authors explore such issues as organisational design, knowledge management, and technology transfer, providing valuable insights for researchers, educators, students, technology professionals, business executives, scientists, and policymakers concerned with promoting entrepreneurship and its impact on organisational and economic growth.