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Innovation and entrepreneurship / John Bessant and Joe Tidd.

By: Bessant, J. R [author].
Contributor(s): Tidd, Joseph, 1960- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hoboken : Wiley, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xiii, 593 pages : color illustrations, 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781394219704 (paperback); 1394219709 (paperback).Subject(s): Creative ability in business | EntrepreneurshipDDC classification: 658.421 | 658.421 BES
Contents:
Entrepreneurial goals and context -- The innovation imperative -- Social innovation -- Innovation, globalization and development -- Sustainability-led innovation -- Recognizing the opportunity -- Entrepreneurship in the digital economy -- Entrepreneurial creativity -- Sources of innovation -- Finding the resources -- Search strategies for innovation -- Building the case -- Leadership and teams -- Developing the venture -- Exploring networks -- Developing new products and services -- Creating new ventures -- Developing business and talent through corporate venturing -- Creating value -- Growing the enterprise -- Exploiting knowledge and intellectual property -- Business models and capturing value -- Learning to manage innovation and entrepreneurship.
Summary: "This book has been developed specifically for students of Business and Management Studies, and for Science and Engineering students studying courses on innovation and/or entrepreneurship. It is designed to complement our best-selling text Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change (Eighth edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2024), which is focused more on the needs of specialist postgraduate and post-experience audiences. In this fourth edition, we were inspired by the pioneering scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, to attempt to re-integrate these two fields. For too long the two subjects have diverged into narrow disciplines, each suffering as a result: entrepreneurship has become preoccupied with small business creation and innovation dominated by new product development. In this text, we aim to reunite the study and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. In Innovation and Entrepreneurship (fourth edition), we continue to take a unique position at the interface of these two fields, rather than a traditional narrow focus on one or the other. On the one hand, the Innovation field has a bias towards larger firms and formal processes, whereas on the other hand, the Entrepreneurship discipline is dominated by a focus on individuals, startups and small firms, but with little emphasis on the role of innovation. In contrast, here we adopt a view that aims to identify and explore the intersections and interactions between these two fields, such as entrepreneurship in larger organizations, and innovation in new enterprises and smaller firms. Integrating themes include social, sustainable and digital innovation and entrepreneurship"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: MTU Kerry New Books Summer 2026
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.421 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module MGMT 8070 - Core 00220384
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 658.421 BES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Kerry Module ENTR71006 Recommended 38888000967012
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Teaches students to apply the key principles of innovation and entrepreneurship in a variety of business contexts

Now in its fourth edition, Innovation and Entrepreneurship provides an overview and synthesis of the most recent research on innovation and entrepreneurship, offering clear and accessible coverage of essential research principles that are applicable in a broad range of business models and industry sectors in a variety of business, public and social contexts.

Using a proven process model that connects topics as sequential stages, this student-friendly textbook applies, reviews, and synthesizes key theories and research within contexts of corporate and public services, emerging technologies and economies, sustainability and development, and creating and capturing value from innovation and entrepreneurship.

Accessible and engaging , Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Fourth Edition, is the perfect textbook for undergraduate students in business and management courses, as well as students working towards engineering and science degrees with management components.

Revised edition of the authors' Innovation and entrepreneurship, [2015].

Includes index.

Entrepreneurial goals and context -- The innovation imperative -- Social innovation -- Innovation, globalization and development -- Sustainability-led innovation -- Recognizing the opportunity -- Entrepreneurship in the digital economy -- Entrepreneurial creativity -- Sources of innovation -- Finding the resources -- Search strategies for innovation -- Building the case -- Leadership and teams -- Developing the venture -- Exploring networks -- Developing new products and services -- Creating new ventures -- Developing business and talent through corporate venturing -- Creating value -- Growing the enterprise -- Exploiting knowledge and intellectual property -- Business models and capturing value -- Learning to manage innovation and entrepreneurship.

"This book has been developed specifically for students of Business and Management Studies, and for Science and Engineering students studying courses on innovation and/or entrepreneurship. It is designed to complement our best-selling text Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change (Eighth edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2024), which is focused more on the needs of specialist postgraduate and post-experience audiences. In this fourth edition, we were inspired by the pioneering scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, to attempt to re-integrate these two fields. For too long the two subjects have diverged into narrow disciplines, each suffering as a result: entrepreneurship has become preoccupied with small business creation and innovation dominated by new product development. In this text, we aim to reunite the study and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. In Innovation and Entrepreneurship (fourth edition), we continue to take a unique position at the interface of these two fields, rather than a traditional narrow focus on one or the other. On the one hand, the Innovation field has a bias towards larger firms and formal processes, whereas on the other hand, the Entrepreneurship discipline is dominated by a focus on individuals, startups and small firms, but with little emphasis on the role of innovation. In contrast, here we adopt a view that aims to identify and explore the intersections and interactions between these two fields, such as entrepreneurship in larger organizations, and innovation in new enterprises and smaller firms. Integrating themes include social, sustainable and digital innovation and entrepreneurship"-- Provided by publisher.

MTU Cork Module MGMT 8070 - Core reading.

MTU Kerry Module ENTR71006 - Recommended reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John R. Bessant, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter, UK. He worked as a chemical engineer before beginning a career in innovation research and consultancy, which has spanned more than 35 years. Bessant currently holds visiting appointments at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the University of Stavanger, Norway.

Joe Tidd, PhD, is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK. He is a physicist with degrees in technology policy and business administration. Tidd has held visiting appointments at University College London, UK, and Cass Business School, UK. He has advised on technology policy and consulted on technology management in numerous contexts and is a past recipient of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contributions to management teaching and research.