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Andrew, James P.; and Harold L. Sirkin. Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.

Bhide, Amar V. The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bowman, C. W. Intangibles: Exploring the Full Depth of Issues. Sarnia, Ontario: Grafiks Marketing & Communications, 2005.

Carter, Stephen. Renaissance Management: The Rebirth of Energy and Innovation in People and Organizations. London: Kogan Page Limited, 1999.

Chakravorti, Bhaskar. The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Chesbrough, Henry. Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.

Chesbrough, Henry; Wim Vanhaverbeke; and Joel West, eds. Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Davila, Tony; Marc Epstein; and Robert Shelton. Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Wharton School Publishing, 2006.

Drucker, Peter. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

Dyer, Davis. TRW: Pioneering Technology and Innovation since 1900. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Flaum, Jonathon A. How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim: A Fable About Inspiring Creativity and Bringing New Ideas to Life. New York: AMACOM, 2007.

Foster, Richard and Sarah Kaplan. Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market -- And How to Successfully Transform Them. New York: Currency Books, 2001.

Fulmer, William E. Shaping the Adaptive Organization: Landscapes, Learning and Leadership in Volatile Times. New York: AMACOM, 2000.

George, Michael L.; James Works; and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill. Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Gershman, Michael. Getting It Right the Second Time: How American Ingenuity Transformed Forty-Nine Marketing Failures Into Some of Our Most Successful Products. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Gloor, Peter A. Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage Through Collaborative Innovation Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Goldman, Ron and Richard P. Gabriel. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source As Business Strategy. San Francisco: Elsevier, 2005.

Govindarajan, Vijay and Chris Trimble. Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.

Gregerman, Dr. Alan S. Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2007.

Grundling, Ernest. The 3M Way to Innovation: Balancing People and Profit. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2000.

Gryskiewicz, Stanley S. Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovation and Renewal. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Hamel, Gary. Leading the Revolution. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Hargadon, Andrew. How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Hauptly, Denis J. Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products. New York: AMAZON, 2008.

Hodock, Calvin L. Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things: Avoiding Eight Common Mistakes in New Product Development. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007.

Howard, Robert, ed. The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation . Boston: Harvard Business Review, 1993.

Imparato, Nicholas and Oren Harari. Jumping the Curve: Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

Janszen, Felix. The Age of Innovation: Making Business Creativity a Competence, Not a Coincidence. London: Prentice-Hall, 2000.

Jonash, Ronald S. and Tom Sommerlatte. The Innovation Premium: How Next-Generation Companies are Achieving Peak Performance and Profitability. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1999.

Kahn, Edward. Innovate or Perish: Managing the Enduring Technology Company in the Global Market. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Kelly, Tom and Jonathan Littman. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm. New York: Currency, 2001.

Kelly, Tom and Jonathan Littman. The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization. New York: Currency, 2005.

Lafley, A. G.; and Ram Charan. The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation. New York: Crown Business, 2008.

Lawler, Edward E., III; and Christopher G. Worley. Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Leonard-Barton, Dorothy. Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.

MacDonald, Robert W. Beat the System: Eleven Secrets to Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Bureaucratic World. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Mauzy, Jeff and Richard Harriman. Creativity, Inc. - Building An Inventive Organization. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

May, Matthew E. The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation. New York: Free Press, 2007.

McGehee, Tom. Whoosh: Business in the Fast Lane. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 2001.

Miller, William C. Flash of Brilliance: Inspiring Creativity Where You Work. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998.

Nambisan, Satish; and Mohanbir Sawhney. The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Wharton School Publishing, 2008.

Nonaka, Ikujiro and Hirotaka Takeuchi. The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

O'Connor, Gina C.; Richard Leifer; Albert S. Paulson; and Lois S. Peters. Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Pek, Andrew; and Jeannine McGlade. Stimulated: Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work. Austin, Texas: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2008.

Prahalad, C. K.; and M.S. Krishnan. The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Rickards, Tudor. Creativity and the Management of Change. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999.

Rabe, Cynthia Barton. The Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies are Doing About It. New York: AMACOM, 2006.

Robinson, Alan G. and Dean M. Schroeder. Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004.

Robinson, Alan G. and Sam Stern. Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1997.

Rushkoff, Douglas. Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Seybold, Patricia B. Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Sherman, Howard and Ron Schultz. Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998.

Silverstein, David; Neil DeCarlo; and Michael Slocum. Insourcing Innovation: How to Transform Business as Usual into Business as Exceptional. Longmont, Colorado: Breakthrough Performance Press, 2005.

Skarzynski, Peter; and Rowan Gibson. Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2008.

Snyder, Nancy Tennant and Deborah L. Duarte. Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation in Your Organization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Stacey, Ralph D. Complexity and Creativity In Organizations. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., 1996.

Taylor, William C.; and Polly LaBarre. Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. New York: William Morrow, 2006.

Tushman, Michael L. and Charles A. O'Reilly III. Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Utterback, James M. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.

VanGundy, Arthur B. Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs. New York: AMACOM, 2007.

Von Braun, Christoph-Friedrich. The Innovation War. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Von Hippel, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005.

Wujec, Tom and Sandra Muscat. Return on Imagination: Realizing the Power of Ideas. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002.

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