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Innovation in the information chain
Technovarion, 10: 1 (1990) 59-60
Innovation in the Information
Chain
The seven chapters deal with:
by J.S. Mackenzie Owen asd Johan van Halm, Routledge, London and New York, 1989, Hardback $25.00, 121 pages.
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This is a thin little book but worth every penny of the E25.00 price. The book is the result of a research project carried out by the authors for the Library Council of the Netherlands (now the Netherlands Council for Library and Information Services or RABIN). The major aim of the book is to give an insight into the relationship between technical de~~~elopments in information technology and the various parties involved in the transfer of technical and scientific information. On studyina the vast amount of literature in this field, the two authors found it to be highly segmented: publishers, book trade and libraries-each being quite different worlds. A second major factor emerging from the study was that no consensus existed as to the future developments in processing information. Roughly one third of the book is taken up by a bibliography which is an abridged version drawn from the original report but this bibliography is highly detailed and up to date, although in contrast the index of one and a half pages is pathetic in a book dealing with information. As the editor of a journal and former Reader in Innovation Studies, I found this slim volume to be one of the most fascinating and interesting books I have read for some time. My review copy is already becoming somewhat ‘dog eared’ from constant use as a reference book. The book will stay open when used for this purpose!
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Technovation,
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10 No 1
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The Information Chain: Functions and Parties Technology and Information in the Information Chain The Information Industry The Publishing Industry The Book and Journals Trade Libraries Strategic Aspects of Innovation in the Information Chain
and are backed up with an excellent bibliography as already mentioned, and an appalling index-also mentioned. George Hayward November 1989
Adaptors and Innovators: Styles creativity and problem-solving
of
edited by Michael J. Kirton, Routledge, London and New York, 1989, Hardback f35.00, xv and 234 pages.
This is a book of seven papers edited and part co-authored by Michael Mirtou, the originator of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. The book is the first comprehensive collection of papers dealing with the AdaptionInnovation theory and it offers the readers practical guidance on applying the ,,heory and its later advances. The central aim of the publication is to bring to readers’ attention the work currently being carried out in refining and applying the KAl
0166-4972/90/$03.60
6 1990 Elsevier Science
Publishers
Ltd
59
Innovation in the Information
Chain
The seven chapters deal with:
by J.S. Mackenzie Owen asd Johan van Halm, Routledge, London and New York, 1989, Hardback $25.00, 121 pages.
-
This is a thin little book but worth every penny of the E25.00 price. The book is the result of a research project carried out by the authors for the Library Council of the Netherlands (now the Netherlands Council for Library and Information Services or RABIN). The major aim of the book is to give an insight into the relationship between technical de~~~elopments in information technology and the various parties involved in the transfer of technical and scientific information. On studyina the vast amount of literature in this field, the two authors found it to be highly segmented: publishers, book trade and libraries-each being quite different worlds. A second major factor emerging from the study was that no consensus existed as to the future developments in processing information. Roughly one third of the book is taken up by a bibliography which is an abridged version drawn from the original report but this bibliography is highly detailed and up to date, although in contrast the index of one and a half pages is pathetic in a book dealing with information. As the editor of a journal and former Reader in Innovation Studies, I found this slim volume to be one of the most fascinating and interesting books I have read for some time. My review copy is already becoming somewhat ‘dog eared’ from constant use as a reference book. The book will stay open when used for this purpose!
-
Technovation,
Volume
10 No 1
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-
The Information Chain: Functions and Parties Technology and Information in the Information Chain The Information Industry The Publishing Industry The Book and Journals Trade Libraries Strategic Aspects of Innovation in the Information Chain
and are backed up with an excellent bibliography as already mentioned, and an appalling index-also mentioned. George Hayward November 1989
Adaptors and Innovators: Styles creativity and problem-solving
of
edited by Michael J. Kirton, Routledge, London and New York, 1989, Hardback f35.00, xv and 234 pages.
This is a book of seven papers edited and part co-authored by Michael Mirtou, the originator of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. The book is the first comprehensive collection of papers dealing with the AdaptionInnovation theory and it offers the readers practical guidance on applying the ,,heory and its later advances. The central aim of the publication is to bring to readers’ attention the work currently being carried out in refining and applying the KAl
0166-4972/90/$03.60
6 1990 Elsevier Science
Publishers
Ltd
59