The innovation imperative is clear—organizations (both public and private sector) which wish to survive and flourish in a turbulent eironment need to change. But making changes in products, services, processes or business models requires careful management and continuous learning. The responsiveness to and the implementation of change has become a core capability which organizations need to develop. The good news is that we have a variety of proven and tested approaches to the challenge of ‘change management’ which can help organizations in this activity._x000D_ But we are also entering an era where, as a result of significant technological and social shifts, the nature of the change process itself is changing. In particular there has been a massive increase in the potential for participation in the process in active fashion, shaping both the rate and direction of innovation. Interactive web-based technologies enable rapid mobilization and articulation of different viewpoints and fast construction of coalitions for action. At the same time the shift towards social networking is more than a passing fad—in Europe more adults in the population are now active participants on such platforms than not. Across such communities the potential for ‘democratization’ of change processes—whether in company decision-making around product or service development, or amongst citizens shaping and co-creating the services which they consume—is growing._x000D_ This chapter explores the implications of this shift for our understanding and management of change and argues that, in the same way as the early (and somewhat static) models for using advanced information technologies gave way to a far more interactive perspective (Web 2.0), we may as well need new models that understand and work with ‘change management 2.0’; those which reflect the rapid shift and openness in the innovation landscape.
This dissertation consists of three independent studies - two empirical studies and one literature review - that examine different issues regarding the iolvement of employees in innovation within the growing open innovation eironment. In particular, I focus on the different facets and vital enablers that influence iolving the general workforce in innovation, among which trust plays a critical role for their active iolvement and their decision to contribute to innovation. In the first study, the focus is on a powerful set of enablers of high iolvement innovation, namely; the new corporate web technologies, and their role in accelerating a wider base of collective innovation. The second study then examines the iolvement of a very specialized category of the workforce in innovation which is the highly qualified external workforce. Those employees represent a rich yet underexplored resource of employee innovation. Finally, in the third study, I focus on exploring the different roles played by innovation intermediaries and argue that intermediaries could take a more active role in open innovation, through proposing the ‘trust incubator’ role. New insights coming from this thesis advance the current discussion of actively and effectively iolving employees in innovation, as well as uncover important and current related issues and allow us to draw conclusions that are useful for both research and practice.
Abstract in German Im „Jahrbuch Innovation 2014“ geben Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft einen umfassenden Einblick in Trends rund um Innovation und Wachstum. Neben den Expertenbeiträgen porträtiert die Publikation Innovationstreiber aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft und ist somit Nachschlagewerk für wichtige Adressen, Kontakte, Transfereinrichtungen oder Lehrstühle rund um das Thema „Innovation“. Vertreten sind unter anderem Autoren wie Bildungsministerin Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, BDI-Präsident, Ulrich Grillo, Präsident der Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft, Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, Dr. Kai Engel, Partner der A.T. Kearney GmbH, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Inhaber des Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Lehrstuhls für Innovationsmanagement und Entrepreneurship an der HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Prof. Dr. Ellen Enkel, Leiterin des Dr. Manfred Bischoff Institut für Innovationsmanagement der Airbus Group. <link http://www.faz-institut.de/netzwerkprojekte/jahrbuch-innovation - external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window">More details</link> _x000D_ <div class="indent">
We examine open innovation within the context of science-to-business collaboration and outline the main opportunities offered by open innovation to both businesses and academia. Two main challenges of science-to-business collaboration are also highlighted: the marketing of scientific results and competences, and the development of trust-based knowledge transfer mechanisms. Furthermore, the article shows how open innovation offers ways for overcoming those challenges. We start by providing a background to open innovation and the significant opportunities it opens up, especially for businesses. Then the article traces the parallel development in universities’ innovation systems. This is followed by a discussion of the emerging challenges for science-to-business collaboration in the context of open innovation. Finally, we conclude with some key points for future research.
The experience of implementing employee iolvement in innovation can be viewed as a bounded opportunity. Whilst long-term strategic benefits could flow from organising participation across the workforce, creating structures that sustain such a culture is highly complex. In effect the "transaction costs" of high iolvement innovation limit its implementation. However a number of technological and social developments (such as innovation platforms and company social networks) offer new options in this space which may change this. In particular the "reach" and "richness" trade-off could be changed to permit higher levels of participation in larger-scale projects. Much depends on the ways in which implementation of systems deploying these new approaches is undertaken and the development of appropriate behavioural routines to support them. This paper explores a number of cases within German enterprises and reports early experience along this learning curve.
The purpose of this paper is to give a current as well as a historical overview for the development of innovation management as a part of the Business Economics discipline, and the role Business Economics itself plays as an engine of innovation. This overview is presented from the German side as well as from international research. The shift in the role of universities as entrepreneurial hubs as well as the development in the company‘s is thoroughly discussed. The development in innovation management research across disciplines is also displayed. Different topics that fall under innovation management are presented. Finally, we referred to the role of "trust‘ in the functionality of markets, which seemed almost unlimited even after the internet bubble burst and the financial crisis showed the risks of financial innovations, as well as its role in the acceptance of innovations.