Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; List of cases; Preface 1 Paul Rivier; Preface 2 Marc Maurer; Introduction: from R&D to RID; Part I. From Innovation to Innovative Design: 1. What do we know about innovation? Testing the economic and social sciences; 2. Management sciences and innovation: identity of objects and innovation capability; 3. The design activity and innovation capability; Part II. Design Capacities in Innovative Firms: 4. Highly innovative firms: Tefal 1974-1997 - the Wizards of Rumilly; 5. A model of the innovative firm: design strategy, metabolism and growth regime; 6. Grafting the Tefal model: astonishing performance from an innovative start-up; Part III. Rebuilding Innovation Capabilities: 7. Large firms and intensive innovation: the recurring R&D crises; 8. From R&D to RID: missions and organizations of innovative design; 9. Learning from experience: expansions from the innovative windscreen at Saint-Gobain Sekurit; Part IV. Innovative Design: Tools and Organizations: 10. The methodologies of innovative design: C-K theory, innovation fields and design spaces; 11. Type 1 innovation fields: design in the search for new values - the innovative forms of user-involvement; 12. Type 2 innovation fields: design by drastic technological change and by regenerating functions; 13. Type 3 innovation fields: combining scientific research and conceptual innovation; 14. The inevitable return to rule-based design; 15. Innovative design, platforms and open innovation: the management of exploratory partnerships; Conclusion: the governance of innovative design, a third era of modern management?; Bibliographical appendix. Innovation viewed by the different disciplines: an extended survey; Postface Jacques Lacambre and Dominique Levent; Innovative design glossary; Bibliography; Index.