Information for Innovation Managing Change from an Information Perspective [Paperback]

Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Here, Stuart Macdonald finds information central to a variety of business/economics disciplines, from patents to high technology, from corporate strategy to industrial espionage. In doing so, he reveals the rather tricky role that information plays in current processes of innovation and change.

Introduction
1. The Nature of Information
2. Change and Innovation
3. Sources of Information for Change and Innovation
4. The Flow of Information
5. The Mixing of Information
6. Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor
7. Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information
8. Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks
9. Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition
10. Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture
11. The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System
12. Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization
Concluding Thoughts