Corning and the Craft of Innovation
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Margaret B.W. Graham is the founder of The Winthrop Group, a company that assists corporations, foundations, and other organizations to document and make use of their experience. Currently, she is a visiting professor of management at McGill Univeristy in Quebec. Alec Shuldiner is a member of The Winthrop Group.... a comprehensive guide, written in non-technical language, to the variety of products developed over the company's 150-year history.
R&D Management
... a fascinating account from an industrial history perspective.
R&D Management
The book is constructed in a narrative style that makes for easy reading, and the combination of technical, social and organisational aspects is nicely balanced to produce a well-rounded reference work.
R&D Management
Corning and the Craft of Innovation is a book of far-reaching significance for historians of business and technology. Not only do Graham and Shuldiner provide a wealth of information on the role of Corning and materials research in major technological developments of the twentieth century, but they also advance our understanding of the relationship between innovation and corporate strategy in medium-sized speciality firms ... conceptually innovative and should hold great appeal for business historians ... well conceived and worthy of the attention of a broad audience.
The Economic History Review
Drawing on detailed and painstaking research it provides a full account of how a company constructs and reinforces key routines which enable it to manage and develop innovation ... of immense relevance to other firms as an account of how innovation management evolves and can be nurtured.
Technovation
The examples of Corning's early interest in creating the right environment for innovation - and fitting scientific breakthroughs to the needs of the market place - shine through in Margaret Graham's and Alec Shuldiner's thoughtful history of the company.
Peter Marsh, Financial Times
This book is more than a typical corporate biography ... the authors concern throughout is to identify the essential ingredients that have made Corning so innovative for so long.
The Economist