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The relationship between innovation management, its several life cycles, and time is a critical one, yet it remains poorly understood. This chapter explores some aspects of this relationship, which has a bearing not only upon the general theory of the firm, but also upon firms in the steel industry. Because time is such a critical variable in the success of innovation management, it must be appreciated as a fundamental dimension of a philosophy, or methodology, of innovation management. We will include a definition of the concept of time and then examine that definition in the light of the practice of innovation management. First, a definition of innovation management:
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This definition comes from the Battelle Columbus Laboratories report “Interactions of Science and Technology in the Innovative Process: Some Case Studies,” as published in: Sven B. Lundstedt and E. William Colglazier (Eds.) (1982), Managing Innovation: The Social Dimensions of Creativity, Invention and Technology, New York: Pergamon Press, 1982, pp. xxi-xxii.
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Lundstedt, S.B. (1989). Time, Space, Innovation Management, and the Life Cycle Concept. In: Lundstedt, S.B., Moss, T.H. (eds) Managing Innovation and Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7835-6_7
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