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Written specifically for information professionals, this forward-looking new resource is a thorough introduction to the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship in libraries, and provides the practical tools and guidelines you need to maximize change and create successful and effective new policies. The authors examine best practices for using knowledge and networks to spark innovation, and introduce a variety of entrepreneurial ideas along with target objectives, procedural summaries, post-implementation reflections, and practical review questions. You’ll find a range of successful innovation programs from real world institutions, along with guidance for organizing staff and promoting entrepreneurial behavior.
1. Innovation and entrepreneurship in information organizations Learning objectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Innovation 1.3 Entrepreneurship1.4 Creativity 1.5 What's new about innovation? 1.6 Promoting innovation in information organizations Summary and conclusions Review questions Challenges Group discussion topicsReferences and additional reading 2. Innovation Co-authored by Anahita Baregheh Learning objectives 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What is innovation? 2.3 Nature or degree of an innovation 2.4 Types of innovation 2.5 Information systems and innovation 2.6 Innovation orientation2.7 Innovation management 2.8 Innovation diffusion and adoptionSummary and conclusions Review questions Challenges Group discussion topicsReferences and additional reading 3. Entrepreneurship Co-authored by Siwan Mitchelmore Learning objectives 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The origins of the concept of entrepreneurship3.3 Being an entrepreneur3.4 Public sector corporate entrepreneurship3.5 Social entrepreneurship3.6 Entrepreneurial competencies Summary and conclusions Review questions Challenges Group discussion topicsReferences and additional reading 4. Organizing for innovation Learning objectives 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Innovativeness, innovation orientation and entrepreneurial orientation 4.3 The innovative organization 4.4 Leadership for innovation4.5 Building innovative and creative teams 4.6 Innovation and entrepreneurship strategies 4.7 Launching an innovation and change managementSummary and conclusions Review questions Challenges Group discussion topicsReferences and additional reading 5. Innovation in practice Learning objectives 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The innovation project5.3 Capitalizing on customer/user innovation 5.4 Collaborative and open innovation through networks and partnerships 5.5 Knowledge, learning and innovationSummary and conclusions Review questions Challenges Group discussion topicsReferences and additional reading
"...a mentally stimulating treat. The book will enable you to understand and deal with the changing landscape of the information industry with a new confidence."
— Information World Review
"Being an Information Innovator is aimed at information professionals who may not have had much formal contact with literature on innovation but are faced with the need for innovation in their organisations. As such it is a book that was long overdue and may yet become standard reading for all forward-looking information professionals."
— Program