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Innovation has been defined as “Organized, Systematic, Rational Work” [1]. For the purposes of this chapter, innovation management is defined as a systematic application of invention to useful ends. Invention here refers to the process, not to the things — inventions — themselves. As shown below, innovation management is the institutional link between the frequently singular and always creative act of invention and some institutional or societal needs.
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From p. 50 of Drucker, P. F. (1985), Innovation and Entrepreneur-ship: Practice and Principles, New York: Harper and Row.
See, for example, discussion of the 3M Company in Pinchot, Gif-ford, III (1985), Intrapreneuring. New York: Harper and Row, p. 246.
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Snediker, D.K. (1989). Innovation Management in a Contract Research and Development Corporation. In: Lundstedt, S.B., Moss, T.H. (eds) Managing Innovation and Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7835-6_3
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