Title: The pathway on implementation of total innovation management: with the case of SMEs

Authors: Qingrui Xu, Jianzhong Zhu

Addresses: Research Center for Innovation and Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. ' Research Center for Innovation and Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Abstract: Total innovation management (TIM), a novel paradigm of innovation management in the 21st century, is a complicated system. Its implementation takes a long time and lots of hard work. For the different kinds of enterprises such as large enterprises and SMEs, at different developing stage, various kinds of pathways to implement TIM exist.

Keywords: total innovation management; TIM implementation; large enterprises; small and medium-sized enterprise; SMEs; pathways; learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2010.034365

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2010 Vol.7 No.3/4, pp.252 - 264

Published online: 01 Aug 2010 *

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