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The Future Role of Innovation and Innovation Policy

Since 2009 we have been suffering a serious global economic crisis and the situations in most small countries, including Denmark, has been very difficult due to growing unemployment and unsustainable public finance deficits. This crisis has occurred at a time of structural problems related to an ageing population. InnovationManagement interviewed Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Professor in the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University, on the role of innovation and innovation policy in this context.

Ideascale2021-12-01T15:46:03-08:00October 13th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive, Interview|Tags: Denmark, employee driven innovation, europe, governance, government innovation, innovation policy, innovation research, Interview, intrapreneurs, Open Innovation, policy, productivity, strategy|

Defining an Innovative Firm – It is Much More Than Technology

Innovation is very much the word of the moment. We hear it used in science, the arts, in politics, in society, and often for good reason. For example, the creation and building of the European Union, is one of the most innovative – and indeed frustrating – processes in history. So what actually is innovation? Read more in this article by IMD professor Georges Haour, IMD, one of the world's top business schools.

Ideascale2021-12-01T14:04:05-08:00August 10th, 2010|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Collaboration, Communication, competitive advantage, defining innovation, europe, global talent, industry innovation, innovative business, job creation, jobs, management development, Open Innovation, skills development|

The New Dutch Economy: Innovative, International and Involving

The Dutch Innovation Platform, a think-tank established by the Dutch Government, recently released a report Nederland 2020, Back in the top 5 outlining the steps the Netherlands needs to take to regain its former position in the top 5 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). In this article Rob Blaaboer, contributing editor from the Netherlands, suggests a way to reach the New Dutch economy, i.e. innovative, international and involving, and how to get back in the top 5.

Ideascale2021-12-01T14:04:04-08:00August 5th, 2010|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: economy, education, entrepreneurship, europe, global competitiveness index, globalization, government innovation, industry innovation, innovation focus, innovation platform, innovation policy, internationalization, national innovation, Netherlands, public sector innovation, service innovation|

Nordic countries score very low for their innovation efficiency

Today’s business leaders view innovation as a means to fight the financial crisis, however a new European study by INSEAD and Logica warns that the link between the money spent and the final result is broken. Their findings show that the majority of business leaders commit substantial resources to innovation, but only nine percent use ROI as a measure of innovation. What’s more, the Nordic countries achieved the lowest rating when it comes to measuring and implementing innovation.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:17:14-07:00March 8th, 2010|Categories: Report|Tags: company culture, europe, innovation metrics, innovation readiness, measuring innovation, measuring outcomes, measuring value, nordic, ROI, structural knowledge|

Danish Innovation Centres in Global Hot Spots

Gaming week in Silicon Valley, development of sustainable houses in Shanghai, and medico innovation in Munich – what do these things have in common? They are all projects set in motion by Danish innovation centres in order to strengthen the innovation and competitiveness of Denmark. And you are invited to join.

Ideascale2021-12-01T09:20:42-08:00February 16th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: competitive edge, Denmark, europe, innovation centers, trends|

The New Nature of Innovation Revealed

The paradigm of innovation as driven primarily by technology and science is passé. A new paradigm is emerging, with the publication of success stories of companies innovating through other ways. The Danish and Finnish governments jointly funded a study into the new nature of innovation, as a contribution to the OECD’s work on innovation strategy. Innovationmanagement.se asked the FORA team behind the report to present the highlights. FORA is a research and analysis division under the Danish Authority for Enterprise and Construction

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:18:44-08:00January 25th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Report|Tags: business partnerships, Collaboration, Competition, competitive edge, cross-industry collaboration, Denmark, europe, finland, globalization, goverment innovation, innovation challenges, innovation drivers, innovation partnerships, innovation report, innovation research, innovation trends, Interview, new ideas, new technologies, Open Innovation, private partnerships, public partnerships, regulating innovation|

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Innovations today

Being the General Manager of TomorrowLab, Steven Peleman knows what is important for the creation of innovation in companies and organizations. Bringing people together outside their companies and helping them to develop new views of their existing innovation organization make a good start. Getting them to take more chances is even better.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:43-07:00January 18th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, europe, innovation consulting, innovation drivers, innovation trends, Interview, interviews, intrapreneur, intrapreneurs, risk management, time-to-market|

Taking Swedish Technology Transfer to a Higher Level

Throughout Europe, the number of individuals working professionally with knowledge and technology transfer is growing. However, in Sweden tech transfer professionals are not yet recognized as a profession. This is something that the new Swedish Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer Support, SNITTS, intends to change. SNITTS, a nonprofit organization, offers a platform for technology transfer professionals to share experiences and improve competence.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:46-07:00November 29th, 2009|Categories: Blog Archive, Interview|Tags: Best Practices, europe, Innovation Management, innovation trends, Interview, Sweden|

Is Denmark a Lead User of User Driven Innovation?

You might think so since the world’s first government sponsored user driven innovation program is to be found in Denmark. The program aims to strengthen the diffusion of methods for user driven innovation and to contribute to increased growth in the participating companies. It also aims to increase user satisfaction and/or increased efficiency in participating public institutions. Søren Tegen Pedersen is the Deputy Director at the administrative authority of the program.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:52-07:00September 22nd, 2009|Categories: Blog Archive, Interview|Tags: Denmark, europe, Innovation Culture, innovation trends, Interview, Open Innovation, partnerships, user-driven innovation|