The first book to show how to create an innovation capability in organizations Based on original research with over 20 companies, this book provides the first model for creating an innovation function--what the authors call a "Breakthrough Innovation Capability"--that will enable breakthroughs over and over. Their model is based on their four-year research project with 12 companies: 3M, Air Products, Albany International, Corning, Dupont, GE, IBM, J&J Consumer, Kodak, MeadWestvaco, Sealed Air, and Shell Chemicals. Gina O'Connor is Associate Professor of Marketing. Richard Leifer is an emeritus professor. Albert S. Paulson is Gilbreth Chaired Professor of the Technologies of Management. Lois S. Peters is Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy. All are from Troy, New York, and the Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Gina C. O'Connor is associate professor of marketing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) Lally School of Management and Technology. She currently serves as the director of the executive M.B.A. program and is also the academic director of the Radical Innovation Research Program.

Richard Leifer is an emeritus professor at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Albert S. Paulson is Gilbreth Chaired Professor in the Technologies of Management at RPI and?chief investment officer at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments.

Lois S. Peters is associate professor, past-director of the Ph.D. program, and current director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy at Lally School of Management and Technology at RPI.