Strategic intelligence for the future. 2, A new information function approach / Henri Dou, Alain Juillet, Philippe Clerc.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. From Information Metabolism to Economic Intelligence; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Information metabolism according to Timothy Powell; 1.3. Let us examine this concept in more detail; 1.4. Organizations and human beings; 1.4.1. Individuation according to Jung; 1.4.2. Individuation according to Simondon; 1.5. Change within organizations via the information function and an epigenetic approach; 1.6. The zone of proximal development; 1.7. Conclusion; 1.8. References; 2. Changing Our Way of Thinking

2.1. Plato's cave, or the fight against the world of received ideas2.2. A society without schools; 2.3. On the intelligence cycle; 2.4. Thinking outside the box and the iron cage; 2.4.1. Thinking outside the box; 2.4.2. The iron cage; 2.5. Holistic thinking; 2.6. Lateral thinking; 2.7. To unravel Parkinson's law and received ideas; 2.7.1. Parkinson's law; 2.7.2. The cost of received ideas; 2.8. The individual and their behavior; 2.9. Thinking about the future or a return to future studies; 2.9.1. General remarks on future studies; 2.9.2. Foresight in business; 2.9.3. Regional prospective

2.10. Conclusion2.11. References; 3. Innovation; 3.1. Some definitions; 3.2. The innovation mechanism; 3.3. Different types of innovation; 3.3.1. The development of innovation; 3.4. Restraints on developing innovation; 3.5. Science, technology and innovation policies; 3.5.1. Innovation systems; 3.5.2. A quick comparison between france and germany; 3.5.3. The evolution of innovation policy in the united states [NOA 13]; 3.5.4. Innovation in Asia; 3.5.5. The European Union and innovation; 3.5.6. The role of cities in innovation systems; 3.6. Public innovation policies in France

3.6.1. Innovation and territories3.7. Conclusion; 3.8. References; 4. Formal Information Research; 4.1. The importance of the time factor in scientific data; 4.2. Different information typologies; 4.3. Information research; 4.4. Research practices: reductionist, holistic; 4.4.1. The reductionist approach; 4.4.2. The holistic approach; 4.4.3. Holistic approach and meta-information or metadata; 4.5. On scientific journals; 4.6. Conclusion; 4.7. References; 5. Examples of Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Information and Patents; 5.1. Specialist search engines; 5.1.1. Carrot2 [CAR 17]

5.1.2. Wikimindmap [WIK 18d]5.1.3. Newsmap [NEW 17]; 5.2. Scientific publications; 5.2.1. Google Scholar; 5.2.2. Access to Google Scholar since PoP (Publish or Perish); 5.2.3. The Web of Science (WoS); 5.2.4. Pubmed; 5.3. Information contained in the patents; 5.3.1. General remarks on patents; 5.3.2. Analyzing patent information; 5.4. Text mining from unstructured texts; 5.5. Automatic summaries; 5.6. Conclusion; 5.7. References; 6. Social Networks; 6.1. Different types of social networks; 6.2. General remarks on social networks; 6.2.1. Why use social networks in a business?