pages
176
ISBN
9781786300676

For firms and other organizations, innovation has become a means of anticipating and managing major changes in their external context and overcoming societal challenges such as sustainable development. As a result, they must innovate repeatedly and continuously. This book explores the multiple facets of innovation project management, defined as the set of activities implemented to […]

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For firms and other organizations, innovation has become a means of anticipating and managing major changes in their external context and overcoming societal challenges such as sustainable development. As a result, they must innovate repeatedly and continuously.

This book explores the multiple facets of innovation project management, defined as the set of activities implemented to bring into being and successfully complete one or several innovation projects. It combines research experience, in cooperation with practitioners, and a theoretical, transversal and global overview inspired from different research streams. The author develops methodologies and frameworks that might be put into practice, provides a case study of research conducted with an air systems manufacturing firm, and outlines avenues for further reflection on innovation project management practice improvement.

The Multiple Facets of Innovation Project Management is aimed at researchers, PhD and Master’s students, managers, consultants, trainers and professors, as well as representatives of the public authorities and private innovation project funders.

1. Innovation Project Management in Theory. 2. Innovation Project Management in Practice. 3. Individual Innovation Project Management. 4. Innovation Multi-Project Management. 5. The Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse Case Study.

Sandrine Fernez-Walch

Sandrine Fernez-Walch is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole in France. Her research focuses on studying and improving the innovation management practices of various organizations.