Innovation Management
 
  

Challenge

Global knowledge-based competition is fundamentally changing the environment in which European research and industry operate. Concern about the future arises from the rapid expansion of European industry research and technological development outside Europe. The broad consensus is that research, education and innovation are at the heart of any response to these challenges.

  

Cognitions

There exists no success recipe for organizations to become more innovative. Many organizations are well acquainted with fostering incremental innovations. However, they have great difficulties creating radical or fundamental innovations.

For that reason, by means of an R&D-project together with 35 partners in 8 firms we developed during 600 working days from 2002 to 2005 an open ended and yet well structured process that stimulates

  • incremental
  • as well as radical innovations

to be created faster and more often in organizations. One of the core results of our R&D-project was that truly innovative organizations foster entrepreneurial and long-term thinking in all employees and that they support radical ideas paired with real commitment.

  

inn[o]pact

Key elements of this innovation cycle called inn[o]pact are:

  • inn[o]pact begins with discerning how fundamentally new things are conceived and how the adequate willingness for risk-taking arises in the organization.
  • inn[o]pact aims on the one hand at the cognitive aspects of the innovation cycle - What is profitable? - as well as the emotional aspects - What do we want? What do we dare? What are we capable of?
  • inn[o]pact generalizes Rapid Prototyping to all types of innovations.
  • inn[o]pact enables (radical) innovations not only in products but also in services, processes and organizational structures.

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