Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, 5th Edition

About the Authors

Joe Tidd is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He is Professor of technology and innovation management at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK and visiting Professor at University College London, Cass Business School, Copenhagen Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. He was previously Head of the Management of Innovation Specialisation and Director of the Executive MBA Programme at Imperial College, and Deputy Director and Director of Studies at SPRU (www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/jtidd).

He has worked as policy adviser to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), and as a researcher for the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which identified lean production. He has worked on research and consultancy projects for consultants Arthur D. Little, CAP Gemini and McKinsey, and technology-based firms, including American Express Technology, Applied Materials, ASML, BOC Edwards, BT, Marconi, National Power, NKT, Nortel Networks, Petrobras and Pfizer, and international agencies such as UNESCO. He is the winner of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contribution to management teaching and research, and the Epton Prize from the R&D Society. He is a director of MBA Authors Ltd, an academic services and licensing company. He is also Managing Editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management (www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml ...