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Section 2.1: extract fromOECD (2005) Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, 3rd edn, Luxembourg, OECD/Statistical Office of the European Communities.

Section 6.3: adapted extracts from Igartua, I. J., Garrigos, J.A., and Hervas-Oliver, J. L. (2010) ‘How innovation management techniques support open innovation strategy’, Research-Technology Management, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 41–52.

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Figure 1: adapted from Rothwell, R. (1992) ‘Successful industrial innovation: critical factors for the 1990s’, R&D Management, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 221–39.

Figure 4: adapted from Dodgson, M., Gann, D. and Salter, A. (2008) The Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Figure 5: adapted from Dodgson, M., Gann, D. and Salter, A. (2008) The Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Figure 6: adapted from Dodgson, M., Gann, D. and Salter, A. (2008) The Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Figure 7: adapted from: Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. (2009). Integrating Technological, Market and Organisational Change, 4th edn, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons.

Figure 9: Abernathy, W. J. and Utterback, J. M. (1978) ‘Patterns of industrial innovation’, Technology Review, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 40–7.

Figure 10: Linton, J. D. and Walsh, S. T. (2008) ‘A theory of innovation for process-based innovations such as nanotechnology’, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 583–94.

Figure 11: adapted from Rogers, E. (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, 5th edn, London, The Free Press.

Figure 12: adapted from Rogers, E. (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, 5th edn, London, The Free Press.

Table

Table 2: adapted from: Dodgson, M., Gann, D. and Salter, A. (2008) The Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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