Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management : Critical Research Models

The broad, interdisciplinary field of technology and innovation management contains emergent boundaries as well as developing frameworks and theories. Due to the dynamic nature of the field, familiarity with the scope of literature is important to practitioners, researchers, and scholars. Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models provides critical, scholarly analysis of over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have had the greatest impact on the multi-disciplinary field of technology and innovation management. The distinguished pool of international authors have identified and analyzed the field's most important works, creating a one-of-a-kind book for scholars and field practitioners.

Robert S. Friedman is Associate Professor of Humanities and Information Technology, Director of the Science, Technology and Society program, and Director of the Distributed Faculty of Social Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology, in Newark, New Jersey. His research examines science and culture, socio-technical systems design, and the role of technology in education. Dr. Friedman holds advanced degrees in the Humanities and Information Systems, has published books and peer-reviewed articles concerning information and communication technologies, technologies in education, as well as the history of science and technology in 19th-century America. Dr. Friedman serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM s Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education s peer-reviewed SIGITE Newsletter, and teaches an array of graduate and undergraduate courses on socio-technical systems in their cultural contexts.

Desiree M. Roberts, PhD is an assistant professor and Academic Area Coordinator of Business, Management and Economics at the State University of New York-Empire State College. Her research interests are centered on innovation in services. She holds a Masters degree and a Ph. D. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Roberts is a Rensselaer Graduate Fellow, and recipient of the New York State Chancellor s Award for Student Excellence and the New York State Senate s Women of Distinction Award. Additionally, Dr. Roberts is also President/CEO of Objective Analysis, Inc., a business management/operations consulting firm, specializing in turnaround planning, implementation and execution.

Jonathan Linton is the Power Corporation Professor in the Management of Technological Enterprises at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Dr. Linton is the editor-in-chief of Technovation: the International Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management and the Director of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Management Laboratory at the Telfer School. He also is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and was formerly on the Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He has published over one hundred articles in academic and practice-oriented journals. Dr. Linton s research focuses on the challenges to operations associated to emerging technologies and innovation. Prior to entering academe, Dr. Linton consulted for a number of years and was an advanced manufacturing engineering at Ford Electronics Manufacturing. He has consulted to a variety of firms and governments in North America and Europe on issues related to the management and integration of technology. While Dr. Linton s research and work focuses on management of technology, he is still a registered Professional Engineer.