The multiple facets of innovation project management

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Innovation Project Management in Theory -- 1.1. Defining the word "innovation" -- 1.1.1. A polysemous word -- 1.1.2. The different types of innovation -- 1.1.3. The different perceptions of newness -- 1.1.4. The different dimensions of newness -- 1.1.5. The intensity of newness -- 1.2. Innovation management research -- 1.2.1 Adopting a managerial rather than economic perspective -- 1.2.2. Focusing on new product development practices -- 1.2.3. An established research stream in management science -- 1.3. Entrepreneurship research -- 1.3.1. Theoretical economic foundations: from Cantillon to Schumpeter -- 1.3.2. Entrepreneurship as an alternative mode of managing exploratory activities -- 1.4. Project management research -- 1.4.1. Historical overview -- 1.4.2. The Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology -- 1.4.3. Project management research -- 1.5. Proposing a definition of innovation project management -- 1.5.1. Combining the three research streams -- 1.5.2. Enhancing the European standard point of view -- 1.5.3. My definition of an innovation project -- 1.5.4. Managing a high number of various innovation projects -- 2. Innovation Project Management in Practice -- 2.1. The different areas of innovation project management -- 2.1.1. The 3MI framework [ROM 99] -- 2.1.2. Boly's framework -- 2.2. Proposing an interpretative innovation management framework -- 2.2.1. How many vertical innovation management levels are there in the studied organization? -- 2.2.2. What kinds of organizational mechanisms are there at each vertical innovation management level? -- 2.2.3. Innovation management contingency factors and integration and differentiation mechanisms -- 2.2.4. Information flows -- 2.3. Shaping the organization's environment thanks to innovation projects.