There are many books about innovation, intellectual property, and using them to build value and competitive advantage. We've picked some of the best. Click on any of the links below to find about more about the book at www.amazon.com.

Driving Growth Through Innovation
Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them. Readers learn to create an environment that nurtures and rewards innovation; to ensure that creative ideas lead to breakthroughs; and to analyze and predict the future of their industry and their customers. Numerous case studies explore companies that have excelled at innovative thinking, detailing how their methods, procedures, and corporate cultures create sustained success.

Edison in the Boardroom: How Leading Companies Realize Value from Their Intellectual Assets
Edison in the Boardroom offers the reader something that is hard to find--a clear perspective and roadmap that shows how patent assets fit on the corporate landscape. The authors develop a unique five-level hierarchy of asset management from start to finish. There are candid revelations of viewpoints and techniques, punctuated by anecdotes, practical examples and testimonials gathered from knowledgeable professionals in industry.

Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive inn Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
According to Gary Hamel, the professor-turned-strategy-guru author of Leading the Revolution, complacent establishment giants and one-strategy start-ups are on the same side of the fence--the wrong side. Corporate complacency and single-strategy business plans leave no room for what Hamel describes as the key to thriving in today's world of business: a deeply embedded capability for continual, radical innovation.

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Bestseller that Changed the Way We do Business
At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship has survived the past decade in considerably better shape than many Fortune 500 companies that ignored its lessons...Thoughtful, concise and useful.

Innovation: Leadership Strategies for the Competitive Edge
Presents a results-oriented program to help senior executives and managers develop an innovative mindset throughout the entire organization, incorporating leadership strategies, ways to overcome resistance, techniques for meeting goals and resource allocation, and eight building blocks of innovation. Includes numerous checklists and self-discovery quizzes, and an eye-friendly layout.

Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
Tom Stewart offers perhaps one of the best expressions of the concept of "intellectual capital," which he defines as "organized knowledge that can be used to produce wealth." The clarity and practical focus of his writing make this work essential reading.

Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation
Starting from knowledge creation and information sharing aspects of intellectual capital management. Examines how companies can develop financial benefits & extract more value from their intellectual capital.

From Ideas to Assets: Investing Wisely in Intellectual Property
The book explains how innovations, in conjunction with legal rights and market demand, form business assets, which is especially true in the areas of information technology and medical science. In addition, From Ideas to Assets presents techniques for placing a monetary value on such assets.

Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval
Cagan and Vogel, who teach mechanical engineering and design at Carnegie Mellon University, explore what it takes to develop breakthrough products that redefine their markets or create new ones. They identify factors associated with successful innovation, and offer insight into emerging trends in consumer and industry.

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Indeo, America's Leading Design Firm
The Art of Innovation really teaches indirectly (not to mention enlightens and entertains) by telling great stories--mainly, of how the best ideas for creating or improving products or processes come not from laboriously organized focus groups, but from keen observations of how regular people work and play on a daily basis.