The paper argues that some conventional tools guiding innovation processes inadequately analyse problems arising from …

Continued innovation of products, services, technology and the organization itself, is one way to keep a business on … its feet during these turbulent times. The importance of innovation – the process during which leap‐changes are effected … – is generally recognized. However, in practice, the successful conclusion of a total innovation project is by no means …

This article describes an informal process of new product innovation that took place outside of the established … structures in a large Swedish telecom company; how a number of individuals brought a product idea from invention to innovation by … insights into how “networked innovation” might be accomplished and supported, by elaborating this case and pointing to some of …

not directly related to the project. External specialist companies are an increasingly important source of innovation and …

Innovation implies newness. To define and measure innovation better, we investigated three dimensions of newness: what … eight industries and 200 information technology firms – we found that innovation as newness represents a unidimensional …

industry is taking steps to address innovation at a strategic level within its organisations. In the research study, the … appointment of staff with a specific responsibility for innovation was taken as an indicator of an organisation’s strategic … commitment to innovation. The findings revealed that a significant minority of these organisations had invested in personnel with …

Based on the experiences with various organizations, this article summarized how managers should lead their innovation … employees for most effectiveness. The main thesis is that innovation employees give higher performance when their managers …