Innovation Governance: How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation

Preface: Why Should We Pay Attention to Innovation Governance?

Innovation has always been with us, as companies have had to keep innovating to survive and grow. As a consequence, innovation management has been a much discussed topic over the past 30 years, both in management literature and in practice. Scholars, consultants, and company practitioners have studied it and argued at length about what companies need to do to become effective innovators. But we believe the challenge is now leaving the narrow realm of specialists to become a broader and vital general management topic. Indeed, relentless technological progress and global competition over the past decade have put innovation at the forefront of most top management agendas. In short, ...