innovation research

What We Can Learn From MIT – It’s All About Impact not Income

MIT has an incredible reputation, is an amazing brand, and is connected to numerous tech transfer successes. It is true that the system in the US is very different to that in Sweden: The laws are different, there is more money available in most parts of the US system, the domestic market is larger and the culture is very different. However, this is not say that Sweden cannot learn from the example of MIT, and apply whatever is feasible.

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:54:43-08:00February 4th, 2011|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: academic innovation, academic partnerships, business partnerships, Collaboration, cross-communication, europe, industry innovation, innovation research, knowledge transfer, MIT, Open Innovation, public sector innovation, Sweden, tech transfer|

Managing Information, People and IT to Improve Business Performance

How can companies acquire greater maturity in the use of information? Ground-breaking research reveals some answers. Following an ambitious program of “field” research – involving more than 1200 managers in more than 100 companies across 26 economic sectors and 40 countries – we at IMD have scientifically demonstrated a causal link between a company’s performance and its maturity with regard to its “information orientation” (IO)

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:25-07:00January 17th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Business Model Innovation, chief information officer, information behaviors, information lifecycle, information orientation, information systems, information values, innovation analytics, innovation maturity, innovation metrics, innovation research, IT, new technology, Technology|

Report from Integro Innovation Lab

InnovationManagement.se was invited to participate in an innovation lab conducted by the Chair of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM), School of Business and Economics of the RWTH Aachen University. Read more to find out about their recent studies and key points from professor Frank Piller, globally acknowledged expert on user innovation and Open Innovation, mass customization and continuous/incremental vs discontinuous/radical innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:38-07:00October 18th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: Collaboration, innovation event, innovation lab, innovation research, management research, Open Innovation|

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|

From Science to Business – How Firms Create Value by Partnering with Universities

In today’s “knowledge-based” society, it is becoming increasingly imperative for companies to “mine” knowledge and technology generated by universities. Why? Because the outcome of such industry-university collaborations help companies create new activities and jobs.

Ideascale2021-12-01T15:40:03-08:00September 20th, 2010|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: academic innovation, academic partnerships, business partnerships, Collaboration, collaborative research, cross-communication, innovation life cycle processes, innovation research, intellectual property, IP & patent, knowledge transfer, licensing, Open Innovation, ownership, partnerships, patents, research, science, strategic partnership|

Clinic of Innovation – Where Ideas are Born, Nurtured, and Grown

Health clinics are a common feature of most urban health care landscapes treating ailments and illnesses not serious enough to be treated by hospitals. But when was the last time you ran into a “clinic of innovation” – a clinic that treats ideas rather than patients? Chances are pretty low, unless you happened to be in Norway recently.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:19:23-08:00August 30th, 2010|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: clinic of innovation, Crowdsourcing, idea development, idea improvement, Ideation, innovation development, innovation improvement, innovation research, patent, process improvement, research|

New research study discovers important dynamics of innovation and collaboration between networks

Researchers from Case Western Reserve and Temple University conducted an analysis of how innovations are created among multiple parties within a project at the Frank O. Gehry architecture firm. What they discovered is that networks of people and communities of interest are remarkably adept at creating innovations through an iterative process.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-04T17:34:49-07:00April 12th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive, Strategies|Tags: boundaries, Collaboration, communities of interest, evolving, innovation, innovation research, iterative process, mindfulness, networks, path creation, patterns of creation, self-propagating system, strategy, trading zones, turbulence, wakes of innovation|

Web-Enabled Open Innovation: From Hype to Reality

InnovationManagemenet is proud to present yet another experienced and knowledgeable columnist; Ehsan Ehsani, researcher and consultant in the area of innovation and product development. Ehsan is working with Accenture Product Innovation and PLM practice in New York City Office and has previous experience from a variety of firms both in Europe and the United States. This is the first in a series of columns starting off with a hot topic: Web-enabled open innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:39-07:00March 9th, 2010|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: beta testing, Collaboration, Communication, creation processes, crowdsourced innovation, Crowdsourcing, design processes, governance, idea management, incentives, innovation life cycle processes, innovation research, Open Innovation, Product Development, product innovation, product lifecycle, project openness, transparency, web-enabled innovation|

Market Orientation Supports Innovativeness Over Time

We know that clusters of co-located firms play an important role in supporting innovation and wealth creation. Spatial proximity can allow firms to take advantage of scale and positive externalities such as access to skilled labour, specialized subcontractors and rapid flows of information. Shared history, trust, and common understanding of phenomena may also enhance cluster members’ ability to interpret, and learn from, each other’s strategies. Yet location in regional clusters in and of itself does not guarantee success.

Ideascale2021-12-01T09:21:50-08:00February 26th, 2010|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, business development, cluster brand, Collaboration, innovation research, innovation trends, lessons learned, marketing, marketing best practices, marketing research, measuring innovation|

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|

COP15: A Derailed Innovation Management Process

We have flipped the calendar and entered a new decade. It is a month since the closure of COP15, and we are still analysing results. Innovations were claimed to be the drivers required to reduce CO2-emissions. And, in this context, COP15 kicked off an innovation management process, involving heads of states, and a steering committee, and it was hoped would show the way to a better tomorrow. What went wrong and why did it go so wrong?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:43-07:00January 18th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: climate change, globalization, innovation research|

The Cave Model of Innovation

It is time to rethink the main drivers of innovation. The key activities for successful innovation are not just company research and participating in innovation systems. One activity that is just as important is skilful information search directed towards opportunities in the world outside the organizaton or innovation system. To understand this line of thinking, we introduce the cave model of innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:45-07:00November 29th, 2009|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, innovation drivers, innovation psychology, innovation research, Open Innovation|

Why executives should spend more time and less cash

Innovation management as a topic is wider than any single website can hope to cover completely. Marcus Linder, an innovation researcher at Chalmers, offers a regular column at innovationmanagement.se covering the most inspiring and actionable contents from other online sources, such as blogs and magazines. The first favorite link? Why executives should spend more time and less cash on innovative projects.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:18:41-08:00November 13th, 2009|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: Business Model Innovation, disruptive innovation, Innovation Leadership, innovation research, leadership, Product Development, project management|

Creating actionable knowledge through close ties with industry

Sofia Börjesson is Director of the Center for Business Innovation (CBI) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. She is Associate Professor in Technology Management and has extensive experience in leading university-company research projects. Professor Börjesson’s university office is frequently unoccupied – she spends a great deal of time visiting companies and organizations in order to see at first hand and to understand how they are working with innovation. She brings with her the latest academic trends based on the work of her group at CBI and their research in the field, in order to help firms to become more innovative and more efficient. InnovationManagement.se asked her a few questions.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:47-07:00November 2nd, 2009|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: actionable knowledge, Best Practices, Business Model Innovation, Collaboration, green innovation, innovation consulting, Innovation Leadership, innovation research, Interview, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, opportunity identification|

Intel Initiative Aims for More IT Enabled Innovation

The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) is a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium. IVI researches and develops unifying frameworks and road-maps for IT and Business executives to create more value from IT and better deliver IT enabled innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:48-07:00November 2nd, 2009|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: academic innovation, Business Model Innovation, business strategy, Collaboration, cross-industry collaboration, ecosystem, impact assessment, innovation impact, innovation research, Innovation Strategy, Interview, Open Innovation, process improvement, project management, value|