 | Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology by Henry William Chesbrough
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $3.70 The innovation paradigm for the 21st century -- a first look at an emerging approach that will be HUGE a decade from now.
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 | Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm
Buy new: $100.00 / Used from: $59.30 A comprehensive look from multiple perspectives, reporting the empirical evidence for how and when open innovation works. Must reading. (Yes, I'm biased).
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 | The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.45 Tremendous insight into how "good enough" takes out fat, dumb & happy incumbents.
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 | Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage by Richard N. Foster
Buy used from: $0.75 First to capture the idea of vulnerable incumbents. Most powerful innovation book of the 80s, but underappreciated.
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 | An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (Belknap Press) by Richard R. Nelson
Buy new: $30.18 / Used from: $21.93 The classic. Can't really understand economics of innovation without it.
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 | Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights
Buy new: $120.00 / Used from: $57.00 Unique in its perspective. A useful antidote to the economic determinism and unbounded rationality of most innovation research.
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 | The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change (Strategic Management Society)
Buy new: $125.00 / Used from: $44.99 Begins the conversation about what firms have that makes them valuable. Links RBV to innovation and entrepreneurship.
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 | Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford Business Books)
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $15.19 The definitive explanation for Silicon Valley's success. Accept no substitutes (seriously).
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