The book is primarily (but not exclusively) based on the new approaches, methods, frameworks, and tools conceived for enterprise innovation and production improvement, developed during the European Project BIVEE (Business Innovation for Virtual Enterprise Ecosystems.) Addressed topics range from Open Innovation in Virtual Enterprises to shared virtual spaces for collaborative creativity, to Innovation metrics and monitoring in the context of networked SMEs.
Michele Missikoff is Scientific Coordinator to the European BIVEE Project Business Innovation in Virtual Enterprise Environment, Scientific Advisor at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition, ISTC-CNR, Rome, and Professor of Enterprise Information Systems at the International University of Rome, Italy.
Massimo Canducci is Project Coordinator of the European Project Business Innovation in Virtual Enterprise Environment, and Innovation Director at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA, Italy.
Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering, Head of the Centre for HCI Design and co-founder of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London, UK.