Leading and managing creators, inventors, and innovators : the art, science, and craft of fostering creativity, triggering invention, and catalyzing innovation / edited by Elias G. Carayannis and Jean-Jacques Chanaron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategic knowledge serendipity and arbitrage in action: the case of M and A Automation and Valchemy Corporation / Elias G. Carayannis -- Innovation dynamics and the technology S-curve / Elias G. Carayannis and John Wetter -- The knowledge of culture and the culture of knowledge from low-tech to high-tech / Elias G. Carayannis and Denisa Popescu -- Impediments to the transfer of knowledge in inovative communities / Christoph Hienerth -- Anticipation at the early stages of technological innovation / Sylvie Blanco -- Pricing innovation: state of the art and automotive applications / Jean-Jacques Chanaron -- Optimally managing creativity in organizations / Igor N. Dubina -- A contribution to a multi-level theory of creativity / Geert Vissers and Ben Dankbaar -- Organizational structure and competence development in R and D project careers / Olaf Brugman and Ben Dankbaar -- Descartes + Mayoism + Confucius + Taoism = ideas about managing creative employees / Phillip Harvard -- Creative stories: a framework for discovering generative narratives and new ideas / Michael Kull -- Co-production of service innovations and regional development: the growing role of "Public Lead Users"--cases from the French experience / Corine Genet and Benoît Meyronin -- R and D organization and management: practices and lessons learned from three European auto manufacturers / Jean-Jacques Chanaron -- Sources of knowledge acquisition by Indian managers: an empirical analysis / Ram Subramanian, Jaideep Motwani, and Pradeep Gopalakrishna -- Fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in the Greek labor market and education system / Spyros J. Vliamos.