The Business of Innovation

Jay Mitra is Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation and Director of The Venture Academy at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. He has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and is a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University in Germany and Bayero University in Nigeria. He has held similar positions at the Institute of Management Technology in India School of Management, Fudan and Jilin Universities in China, and at Bologna University, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) a unique network and forum for researchers, policy makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development.

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Technological Change and InnovationChapter 2: The Innovative EnvironmentChapter 3: Systems and Institutions of InnovationChapter 4: Innovation Policy and the Role of GovernmentChapter 5: The Characteristics and Features of Innovative OrganisationsChapter 6: Innovation and the Types and Size of FirmsChapter 7: Innovative PeopleChapter 8: Types of InnovationChapter 9: The Process of InnovationChapter 10: Forms of InnovationChapter 11: Measuring Innovation

‘Innovation is driving economic and societal change, but it is still a myth or a black box. Professor Jay Mitra′s new book dissects the myth and sheds light into the black box. The Business of Innovation is a brilliant, comprehensive tool to understand the critical factor dominating the knowledge economy in the 21st century.’