Holistic Innovation: Innovation Paradigm Explorations in the New Era

· Springer Nature
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This book is a new exploration of the paradigm of innovation with Chinese characteristics in the context of a new era. Based on the evolution of innovation paradigm theories at domestic and international level, the book initiates a dialogue between Eastern and Western innovation theories. The book proposes "holistic innovation" which is defined as an open, collaborative, and total innovation under the guidance of strategy, in order to make effective allocation of resources. This book further discusses and summarizes the application of holistic innovation in the upgrading of global value chains, China's high value-added manufacturing, the urban Internet, rural development, and other related corporate and industrial cases, regional development, and national strategies.

About the author

Jin Chen is a Professor of Innovation Management at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and the Director of Research Center of Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University, China. He went to MIT Sloan School of Management (USA) in 1998 as a visiting scholar, and SPRU of Sussex University (UK) as a visiting fellow in 2000. His primary research focus on management of technological innovation, and innovation policy. He was selected as one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers in 2021 (Thinkers50 Global Ranking). Champion of open innovation, indigenous innovation and total innovation, and he has developed the idea of holistic innovation which takes a systemic perspective to tech innovation. His theory of management argues that knowledge innovation and value rationality lie at management’s heart. He was honored as a distinguished professor of Chang Jiang scholars in 2014. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovation Studies, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.

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