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Aalto, Hagman Fredrik, and Claes Sonde. "Innovation Crowdsourcing : Exploring the Use of an Innovation Intermediary." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-77719.
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Background: With the Open Innovation paradigm come new hopes for innovating companies. The ability to tap a global network of experts can, at least in theory, have a significant impact on an organization’s competitive strength. Before such a ‘network of experts’ can be used to its full potential however, a number of challenges related to knowledge markets seem to need solutions. About 10 years ago however, we could witness the entry of a new breed of company – calling themselves innovation intermediaries. These companies are built to profit from delivering the usefulness of knowledge networks to client (Seeker) companies. Though the use of such networks and markets have so far been uncommon outside of high-tech fields they are now starting to be seen used by companies in more mature environments.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the collaboration between SCA (a large Swedish corporation) and the innovation intermediary InnoCentive in order to create a better understanding of what kind of benefits can be derived from the use of an innovation intermediary, and how these benefits are best utilized. We also set out to identify relevant limitations of innomediary use and to seek to better understand how using an innomediary can fit a client company’s higher-order activities such as exploration and exploitation.Completion and Results: Our findings include that SCA are using InnoCentive mainly as a tool to solve highly specific problems and/or problems with a low degree of complexity that they encounter in their everyday activities. The challenges related to knowledge markets, we find, are avoided by keeping problem complexity low and problem modularity high for the problems sent out to the network. In addition, InnoCentive’s business model seems to eliminate costly negotiations between Seekers and Solvers. Using this kind of ‘market solution’ however, we argue, will put bounds on the usefulness of the network and makes it mainly suited as a tool for improving an organization’s exploitation capacity.
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Sapian, A. S. "The Most Successful Business Ideas in Ukraine." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2017. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8384.
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Cox, Nicholas P. G. "Ideas and action : emergence of technical innovation and financial discourse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ab9bd55-c966-4314-9efa-ad9038f4b633.
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This thesis investigates how people's ideas lead to technical innovations, and looks at the problems and setbacks along the way. The research uses data gathered from two major case-studies, several minor ones, and from a wide range of potential sources of finance for innovation. The majority of this data was obtained through free-format interviews with the people involved, although one of the major case-studies used personal letters to access an innovation at the turn of the century. This demonstrated the utility of 'historical' data for management research. The orientation is qualitative and interpretive, but the thesis demonstrates the utility of a rigorous and procedural approach to data and analysis in accomplishing its interpretation. Four distinct discourses, or world-views, emerge from the data, and a framework comprising these is proposed to aid understanding of innovation. This tentative model encompasses the agency and actions of individuals together with their social systems, and follows Giddens in seeing the former as recursively implicated in reproducing the latter. The model allows the progress of an innovation to be charted through the four discourses. The argument of the thesis is sensitive to recent anthropological and sociological uses of ideas drawn from Saussure's structural linguistics. French structuralist developments of these ideas, particularly those of Derrida, are used to investigate problems with the proposed fourdiscourse model of innovation. Derrida allows a more complete synthesis of structure and process than Giddens; his complex ideas thus enable a better explanation of the observation that people involved in innovation can apparently talk within all four discourses at once without excessive anxiety.
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Keely, Louise Catherine. "Ideas and incentives in the innovation process : implications for economic growth." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325014.
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Residegan, Katayun. "Critical success factors for selecting ideas in front-end of SME." Thesis, KTH, Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188895.
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Front-end activities prior to the product and process development have been pointed out by studies to be an essential part in development of new products and processes. Here selecting ideas is found to be route cause of success and failures of the new product and process development outcomes. The existing studies concentrate on larger companies, where tools and processes often are not fitting into the SME which have different needs and settings and lack attention regarding effective and sustainable processes in the front-end. This thesis addresses the need for a more detailed view of the most important factors that influence selecting innovative ideas in SME, with a purpose to address these factors and improve them in the front end process of these companies. For this, by means of extensive literature study on SME, front-End and idea selection theories, a theoretical model for critical success factors for idea selection is developed, containing 21 factors. These factors are divided in main aspects of Shared vision, Innovation strategy, Leadership and management, Appropriate, structure and organization, Key individuals. Subsequently this model is tested in a case study of Bioteria Technologies AB in which the company’s idea selection process is analysed with the model. The empirical analysis and discussions resulted in learning about the status of the company against the factors from which propositions follow. The outcome of the study is a model that can be used for addressing what the challenges and opportunities are for the SME related to improving or adopting an idea selection phase.
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Eriksson, Hanna, and Elin Svensson. "Enablers for Improving the Innovative Culture where Ideas Emerges from all Coworkers : A case study at Saab Naval Operations." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-180948.
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Innovation is a necessity for organizations long term survival in today's rapidly changing society. Many organizations struggle with their innovation management and a prerequisite to succeed with innovation is considered to be, creating and maintaining an innovation. Large established organizations are by many seen as one of the greatest sources of innovation. They have several advantages when it comes to innovation; like a large set of resources and an extensive network. On the other hand many large organizations face difficulties with flexibility and bureaucracy and are being outperformed by small startup organizations. The purpose of the thesis was to investigate a large established Swedish high-technology organization’s innovation culture and give suggestions for how it could be improved in order to support the capability of generating ideas. The investigation was performed at Saab Naval Operations. To find improvements, the current culture and the desired culture that supports innovation were identified. Finally necessary changes were identified to be able to achieve the desired culture. Semi structured interviews were held to understand the prevailing problems today and the desired future state. Additionally a climate questionnaire was sent out to all coworkers at Naval Operations to reveal the current state from coworker’s perspectives. The analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results together provided an overall understanding of the existing culture. Workshops were held to determine the changes needed to reach the desired culture. Finally an action-plan with four improvement areas was identified. The empirical, qualitative and quantitative studies were distributed into the improvement areas. The factors identified are considered as a good starting to positively contribute to an innovative culture though the list is not considered as complete. The improvement areas were; Leadership for innovation, Idea Management, Understanding and Knowledge Transfer. These improvement areas were considered to be of great importance in order to positively contribute to the innovative culture where a variety of ideas emerges from everyone at Saab Naval Operations.För organisationers långsiktiga överlevnad i dagens snabbt föränderliga samhälle är innovation en nödvändighet. Trots detta har många organisationer svårigheter med att hantera sitt innovationsarbete. En förutsättning för att lyckas med innovation anses vara att skapa och upprätthålla en innovationskultur. Många anser att stora etablerade organisationer är en av de största källorna till innovation. De har många fördelar, så som en stor andel resurser och ett omfattande nätverk. Å andra sidan får många stora organisationer svårigheter med flexibilitet och byråkrati och blir därför överträffade av små start-up organisationer. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka ett stort etablerat svenskt högteknologiskt företags innovationskultur och föreslå förbättringsåtgärder för att främja förmågan att generera idéer. Undersökningen genomfördes på Saab Naval Operations i Järfälla. För att finna förbättrings-åtgärder utreddes först hur den existerande kulturen som stödjer innovation såg ut, därefter identifierades den önskade kulturen. Slutligen identifierades de förändringar som kunna möjliggöra den önskade kulturen. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes för att förstå problemen och det önskade framtida tillståndet. En klimatenkät skickades ut till medarbetarena på Saab Naval Operations för att identifiera deras uppfattning av klimatet. De kvalitativa och kvantitativa resultaten gav tillsammans en övergripande förståelse av den befintliga kulturen. Workshops hölls för att finna förslag till åtgärder som skulle hjälpa att nå den önskade kulturen. Slutligen togs en handlingsplan med fyra förbättringsområden fram.Resultatet utmynnade i fyra förbättringsområdena. De identifierade faktorerna anses vara en bra utgångspunkt för att förbättra innovationskulturen. Förbättringsområdena som identifierades är: Ledarskap för innovation, Idéhantering, Domänkunskap och Kunskapsöverföring. Dessa anses vara av stor betydelse för att positivt bidra till en innovationskultur där en mångfald av idéer uppstår, från alla på Saab Naval Operations.
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Armisen, Morell Albert. "Innovativeness of Ideas from Crowdsourcing Discussions." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404787.
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La innovació oberta pretén que les organitzacions siguin més competitives mitjançant la gestió dels recursos de les entrades i sortides de la organització. Aquestes organitzacions utilitzen discussions participatives com un mecanisme per estimular idees innovadores. No obstant això, els resultats de la major part d'aquestes discussions participatives no són tan innovadores com s'espera. Alguns acadèmics tracten d'abordar aquest problema, centrant-se principalment en la identificació d'incentius adequats per fomentar les idees, però no han prestat atenció a les característiques estructurals de la discussió participativa. Aquesta tesi es basa en teories sobre la gestió i la creativitat per tal de desenvolupar un nou marc sobre l'efecte que provoca la diversitat en la innovació de les discussions participatives. El marc proposat és validat utilitzant dades obtingudes en múltiples discussions participatives. D'altra banda, una nova metodologia es proposada per tal de evaluar el grau de consens quan es mesura la innovació de les idees, el qual està adaptat a la naturalesa difusa d'idees innovadores. En suma, les tres preguntes d'investigació abordades en aquesta tesi són: 1) Com la diversitat de la discussió participativa afecta a la capacitat d'innovació? 2) Com les característiques estructurals de la discussió participativa afecten la capacitat d'innovació? 3) Com es pot mesurar el consens a la hora de valorar la capacitat d'innovació de les idees, tenint en compte els diferents graus d'experiència dels qui prenen les decisions?. Els resultats indiquen que els antecedents de la innovació son: 1) Quan hi ha menys diversitat de l'individu abans de la idea, 2) Quan hi ha més diversitat del individu en la idea actual i 3) Si es la primera vegada que es presenta una idea.La innovación abierta pretende que las organizaciones sean más competitivas mediante la gestión de los recursos de las entradas y salidas de la organización. Estas organizaciones utilizan discusiones participativas como un mecanismo para estimular ideas innovadoras. Sin embargo, los resultados de la mayor parte de estas discusiones participativas no son tan innovadoras como se espera. Algunos académicos tratan de abordar este problema, centrándose principalmente en la identificación de incentivos adecuados para fomentar las ideas, pero no han prestado atención a las características estructurales de la discusión participativa. Esta tesis se basa en teorías sobre la gestión y la creatividad para desarrollar un nuevo marco sobre el efecto que provoca la diversidad en la innovación de las discusiones participativas. El marco propuesto es validado utilizando datos obtenidos en múltiples discusiones participativas. Por otra parte, una nueva metodología se propuesta para evaluar el grado de consenso cuando se mide la innovación de las ideas, el cual está adaptado a la naturaleza difusa de ideas innovadoras. En suma, las tres preguntas de investigación abordadas en esta tesis son: 1) Como la diversidad de la discusión participativa afecta a la capacidad de innovación? 2) ¿Cómo las características estructurales de la discusión participativa afectan la capacidad de innovación? 3) ¿Cómo se puede medir el consenso a la hora de valorar la capacidad de innovación de las ideas, teniendo en cuenta los diferentes grados de experiencia de quienes toman las decisiones ?. Los resultados indican que los antecedentes de la innovación son: 1) Cuando hay menos diversidad del individuo antes de la idea, 2) Cuando hay más diversidad del individuo en la idea actual y 3) Si es la primera vez que se presenta una idea.
Open innovation seeks to make organizations more competitive by managing the inflows and outflows of their organization. These organizations use crowdsourced discussions as a mechanism to encourage innovative ideas. However, the results of most of these crowdsourced discussions are not as innovative as expected. Some scholars seek to address this problem by mainly focusing on identifying appropriate incentives to encourage ideas, but they have not paid attention to how the structural characteristics of the crowdsourced discussion generate innovative ideas. This thesis draws from theories on management and creativity to develop a new framework about the effect of knowledge diversity on innovation in crowdsourced discussions. The proposed framework is validated using data obtained from multiple crowdsourced discussions. Moreover, a new methodology is presented for assessing the innovativeness of the ideas generated during crowdsourced discussions that is suited to the fuzzy nature of novel ideas. In sum, the three research questions addressed in this thesis are: 1) how does the diversity of the crowdsourced discussion affect innovativeness? 2) how do the characteristics of the crowdsourced discussion affect innovativeness? 3) how can the innovativeness of ideas be rated in crowdsourced discussion to take into consideration the different degrees of expertise from the decision-makers? The results indicate that less prior individual diversity, more current individual diversity, collaboration among participants, and first time posters foster innovation in crowdsourced discussion.
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Andersson, Henrik, and Markus Yngvesson. "Game of Ideas : utvecklingsprocessen för ett interaktivt verktyg att designa affärsidéer." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-9436.
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Författarna har sedan 2007 gemensamt skrivit uppsatsarbeten samt drivit konsultföretag inom kommunikation och kreativitet. Under tiden har författarna kommit i kontakt med samarbetsövningen Win As Much As You Can. Författarna har ansett att övningen hade potential att bli ett nyttigt verktyg för företag för att förbättra samarbete och kommunikation och utvecklade därför övningen under 2008 till ett spel, Evolution. Dessa erfarenheter låg till grund för utformningen av Game of Ideas, vilket är baserat på litteraturstudier inom komplex systemteori och innovation. De grundläggande dragen för komplex teori har tillämpats genom att låta teorier kring innovation bli till spelregler. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att försöka skapa något helt nytt genom att sammanföra två olika sorters teorier till ett interaktivt verktyg att designa affärsidéer.
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FRÖBERG, EMIL. "Exploring Idea Selection in Innovative Early- Stage Startups : A Framework for Analyzing Ideas in a Lean Development Context." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279088.
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Innovation is a key factor for companies in order to survive in the long-term and to stay competitive. However, it can be challenging to know what ideas (or innovations) to pursue. Large incumbent companies can be slow to innovate, but startups on the other hand, are a great source of innovation. However, many startups fail. Starting a new company is risky, but a countervailing force has emerged called Lean Development. There is a strong need for research and studies on the subject of product development in a Lean Development context and the process of Idea Selection has been somewhat ignored in research. Idea Selection is a part of the Front End of Innovation and is often mentioned as an important factor for success in the innovation process. This study was aimed at creating a framework for Idea Selection, building on the intersection between the Front End of Innovation and the New Product and Process Development in a Lean Development context. The findings are based on current theory on Innovation, Idea Selection and Lean Development as well as a case study conducted at a Swedish insurance startup. The main conclusion of this study is a framework containing four themes: Reach, Impact, Confidence and Effort. By using this framework, startups can more easily decide on what ideas to pursue and thereby move quicker and achieve more success in the innovation process.För ett företag är innovation en nyckelfaktor för långsiktig överlevnad och för att vara konkurrenskraftig. Det kan emellertid vara utmanande att veta vilka idéer (eller innovationer) som bör utforskas vidare och implementeras. Stora etablerade företag kan vara långsamma att innovera, men nystartade företag, startups, kännetecknas å andra sidan ofta av att ha stor innovationsförmåga. Men många startups misslyckas. Att starta ett nytt företag är riskabelt. För att minska den risken har något som kallas Lean Development växt fram. Det finns ett starkt behov av forskning och studier om produktutveckling i Lean Development-sammanhang och processen att välja ut idéer har ignorerats i forskning. Idéval är en del av Front End of Innovation och nämns ofta som en viktig faktor för framgång i innovationsprocessen. Denna studie syftar till att skapa ett ramverk för Idéval, som bygger på skärningspunkten mellan Front End of Innovation och New Product and Process Development ett Lean Development-sammanhang. Resultat är baserade på aktuell teori om Innovation, Idéval och Lean Development samt en fallstudie genomförd vid en svensk startup inom försäkringsbranschen. Den huvudsakliga slutsatsen i denna studie är ett ramverk som innehåller fyra teman: Reach, Impact, Confidence and Effort. Genom att använda detta ramverk kan nystartade företag lättare bestämma vilka idéer de ska gå vidare med och därmed bli mer snabbrörliga och uppnå mer framgång i innovationsprocessen.
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Rahmawati, Dini. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTRA-FIRM SOCIAL NETWORKING AND INNOVATION : A CASE OF ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK IN ERICSSON." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-121699.
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Innovation as the most important way for firms to retain their long-term competitiveness has been extensively researched lately. In this thesis, the author perceived innovation from the bottom up approach, where innovation spans over a broad spectrum of actors, reaching the initiative at a very low level. From this perspective, although innovation starts from an initial idea within an individual’s mind, the connections and interactions between individuals in a social context are very important for idea generation and innovation implementation. Thus social links and interaction within the enterprise context hold an important role in the firms’ innovation. Enterprise Social Network (ESN), defined as “a set of technologies that creates business value by connecting the members of an organization through profiles, updates, and notifications”, comes as one strategy to facilitate professional social networking activities within firms to support better collaboration and communication. However, nowadays when social networking becomes very popular, theimplementation of ESN appears more of a trend for firms instead of a well planned strategy. Most ESN implementations lack means of evaluation of their impacts towardthe firms’ performance, including innovation. In response to that, this thesis’s aim is to answer the ‘how’ question on ESN support toward 9 innovation climate characteristics and social interaction within firm. In this research, an interpretive research methodology was applied towards a case in a global telecom company, Ericsson, with their ESN called MyNET. As part of the methodology, a survey and interviews were done to assess MyNET users’ experience and opinion in this matter. The social network graph was also used in this methodology as an additional input for the interviews. There were 672 respondents participating in the survey and 10 interviews were conducted. The results show that the targeted goals of MyNET implementation support innovation climate characteristics. The results also show that professional social networking activities supported by MyNET such as individual user profile, add colleague in the social network, share information, ask and answer questions, join community, etc, provide an innovative way for social interaction supporting better communication and collaboration which is important for innovation in a global ompany.
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Jesurun, Timothy. "Picking a Winner: How We Choose Our Most Creative Ideas." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396604876.
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Granström, Gabriel, and Marie Amann. "Mitigating Not-Invented-Here & Not-Sold-Here Problems : Leveraging External Ideas through Corporate Innovation Hubs." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74354.
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand How Corporate Innovation Hubs (CIHs) can Mitigate NIH and NSH Problems in Knowledge Transfer. To fulfill this purpose, the following research questions were derived: RQ1: What are the causes of NIH & NSH problems among actors collaborating through a CIH? RQ2: What are the consequences of NIH & NSH problems among actors collaborating through a CIH? RQ3: What mechanisms can a CIH use to mitigate NIH & NSH problems among collaborating actors? Method – The study is an explorative inductive multiple case-study, investigating five CIHs situated in either Silicon Valley, US or Gothenburg, Sweden. In total, 39 interviews were conducted in three waves, and results were derived using a Gioia analysis. Findings – This study resulted in a framework illustrating connections of causes and consequences of NIH and NSH problems with corresponding mitigating mechanisms. The most critical causes are Obsessive control (NIH), Internal antagonism (NIH) and Low confidential awareness (NSH). The most severe consequences are Use of irrelevant knowledge (NIH), Suffocation of external ideas (NIH) and Restrained problem-solving (NSH). The most important mitigating mechanisms are Translate relevance of ideas (NIH) and Create mutual confidential understanding (NSH). Theoretical and Practical Implications – This study contributes to the scarce literature on NIH and NSH problems among multiple actors collaborating through CIHs. By identifying causes, consequences and mitigating mechanisms of NIH and NSH problems, CIHs will be able to detect NIH and NSH tendencies among its collaborating actors, to mitigate its causes and prevent its consequences. Limitations and Future Research – The study is limited by the investigated CIHs focus on exploring future transportation solutions, indicating that future studies can investigate CIHs in other industry settings and among other actors collaborating through CIHs. Keywords: Corporate Innovation Hubs; NIH; NSH; Knowledge Transfer
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Lundmark, Erik. "The Mobility of People, Ideas and Knowledge in the Entrepreneurial Society." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Projekt, innovationer och entreprenörskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-63570.
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As radical innovations facilitate communication, create new industries and make others obsolete, the established ways of organising society are being questioned. Over the last few decades, a theoretical framework and a worldview labelled the entrepreneurial society, has emerged. The entrepreneurial society is based on theoretical models, empirical observations and a belief in the importance of new businesses. The core of the entrepreneurial society is the claim that valuable ideas have to be commercialised in order to contribute to economic growth and prosperity. Unfortunately, valuable ideas remain dormant due to a number of barriers. Labour mobility, informal networks and entrepreneurship are mechanisms with the potential of overcoming these barriers. This thesis aims to increase our understanding of how ideas diffuse between and get applied within organisations. The thesis relates its findings to the entrepreneurial society and identifies and critically assesses basic assumptions and biases underlying the framework. The thesis presents and discusses six studies, each published as an article in a scientific journal, a chapter in an edited book, or as a conference paper at an international academic conference. Taken together, the findings in this thesis emphasise that the mobility of ideas is intertwined with the mobility of people and knowledge. More specifically, the findings indicate that employees in large R&Ddriven projects not only attain knowledge from external sources, but also that the use of external knowledge sources is positively related to new ideas connected to the projects. In addition, this thesis reinforces the argument that the mobility of knowledge workers is particularly beneficial to the diffusion of knowledge and ideas between organisations; the results show that employees in knowledge-intensive positions perceive greater opportunities to generate, share and develop ideas in organisations, as compared to employees in less knowledge-intensive positions. This thesis suggests that new employees tend to have an entrepreneurial potential in the form of a greater drive for change and less habituation with current practices. Nevertheless, such potential is often curbed by resistant routines. However, the thesis also finds that much entrepreneurship literature and the discourse of policy makers are biased towards overly optimistic views of entrepreneurship. The literature on the entrepreneurial society emphasises the diffusion and application of new R&D-related knowledge and ideas. This thesis also emphasises the diffusion and application of already widespread and established knowledge, ideas and innovations.I takt med att radikala innovationer underlättar kommunikation, skapar nya branscher och gör andra obsoleta, ifrågasätts etablerade sätt att organisera samhället. De senaste årtiondena har ett teoretiskt ramverk och en världsåskådning, under benämningen det entreprenöriella samhället, vuxit fram. Det entreprenöriella samhället baseras på teoretiska modeller, empiriska observationer och en tro på vikten av nya företag. Kärnan i det entreprenöriella samhället är tesen att värdefulla idéer måste kommersialiseras för att bidra till ekonomisk tillväxt och välstånd. Olyckligtvis förblir många idéer outnyttjade på grund av en mängd barriärer. Arbetskraftsrörlighet, informella nätverk och entreprenörskap är mekanismer med potential att övervinna dessa barriärer. Syftet med denna avhandling är att öka vår förståelse av hur idéer sprids mellan, och tillämpas inom, organisationer. Avhandlingen relaterar resultaten till det entreprenöriella samhället, samt identifierar och granskar ramverkets underliggande antaganden och blinda fläckar. Avhandlingen presenterar och diskuterar sex studier, var och en publicerad som en artikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift, som ett kapitel i en akademisk antologi eller som ett bidrag till en internationell vetenskaplig konferens. Sammantaget understryker resultaten i avhandlingen att idéers rörlighet är sammanvävd med människors och kunskaps rörlighet. Resultaten tyder på att anställda i stora FoU-drivna projekt inte bara inhämtar kunskap från externa källor utan också att dessa källor är relaterade till nya idéer och lösningar på problem i projekten. Vidare förstärker resultaten tidigare forskning som hävdar att organisationsbyten bland människor med kunskapsintensiva arbeten särskilt bidrar till att idéer och kunskap sprids mellan organisationer; resultaten visar att anställda med kunskapsintensiva arbeten upplever större möjligheter att generera, föreslå och utveckla idéer jämfört med anställda i mindre kunskapsintensiva positioner. Avhandlingens resultat indikerar också att nyanställda har en större entreprenöriell potential än mer etablerade anställda. Detta för att nyanställda har en större förändringsbenägenhet och att de ännu inte är inskolade i etablerade arbetssätt. Denna potential hålls emellertid ofta tillbaka av motståndskraftiga organisatoriska rutiner. Dessutom hävdar avhandlingen att mycket av entreprenörskapslitteraturen och den politiska diskursen uppvisar en överoptimistisk syn på entreprenörskap. Litteraturen bakom det entreprenöriella samhället betonar spridningen och tillämpningen av forskningsnära kunskap. Denna avhandling betonar även vidare spridning av redan spridd och etablerad kunskap, samt redan spridda och etablerade idéer och innovationer.
The authors Licentiate thesis "Organisational adoption of innovations : management practices and IT" is a part of this dissertation.
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Jones, Elies. "Eco-innovation : tools to facilitate early-stage workshops." Thesis, Brunel University, 2003. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5377.
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This thesis presents research carried out into the use of creative tools at the early stages of eco-innovation. Eco-innovation is a practical approach aiming to develop new products and processes which significantly decrease our impact on the environment. Designers are trained to develop profitable products that increase production and consumption. Eco-innovation is a new discipline in which designers can radically reduce the environmental burdens of production and consumption through the innovation of new types of products and services. The main aim of this research was to develop an approach that would promote significant environmental improvements whilst remaining a practical, design-focused discipline. Problems and under-investigated aspects of eco-innovation were identified: • Creative approaches at early stages of eco-innovation were under-investigated and few tools had been developed for use at the early stages. • Empirical design research techniques had rarely been used to assess new eco-innovation tools or to inform their subsequent development. The focus of the research work was the development and testing of tools to facilitate workshops at the early stages of eco-innovation. Not only was the goal to facilitate the generation of radical ideas but also to ensure that these were developed into appropriate solutions having the potential to be taken up in industry. The development of the tools was based on literature research, worked examples and interviews. The tools were tested in controlled workshop experiments and the results were analysed using various empirical techniques. First, an idea-recording technique to improve the efficiency of generating and harvesting ideas in a team design process was developed. This novel tool was called the Product Ideas Tree (PIT) diagram. The tool was tested for its ability to facilitate design workshops. Secondly, a structured approach to innovation - the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) - was investigated. Worked examples using some of the tools from TRIZ were presented and a limited number of tools were selected and simplified for testing in team design workshops. The PIT diagram and TRIZ tools experiments established which attributes of the tools and approaches were most beneficial. The development and testing of these specific tools provided the following general contributions to eco-innovation: • A model for eco-innovation that describes the factors influencing the discipline and the attributes of good practice. • A recommended process to transform radical ideas into appropriate solutions to improve their potential to be taken up in industry. • General insights into the use of tools in early-stage workshops such as: tool selection, integration into existing processes, system-level problem solving and providing thematic information. • Suggested improvements for testing tools in controlled workshop experiments.
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Manderscheid, Jonas [Verfasser], and Hans Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Buhl. "Process Improvement and Innovation : Identification and Planning of Process Redesign Ideas / Jonas Manderscheid ; Betreuer: Hans Ulrich Buhl." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116134344X/34.
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Manderscheid, Jonas Hans [Verfasser], and Hans Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Buhl. "Process Improvement and Innovation : Identification and Planning of Process Redesign Ideas / Jonas Manderscheid ; Betreuer: Hans Ulrich Buhl." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116134344X/34.
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Bento, Dália Maria Cordeiro Lopes. "Processo de inovação: geração de ideias." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15695.
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O presente estudo aborda o processo de inovação numa perspectiva da geração de ideias e a sua influência no quotidiano e no meio social, tendo por complemento uma análise comparativa de dois estudos de caso, com base na técnica de recolha de dados primários. Um dos problemas deste trabalho foi o de demonstrar a forma como as organizações entendiam a inovação/geração de ideias e como as sistematizavam nas suas empresas. Assim, e a partir do cruzamento de dados recolhidos junto das empresas inquiridas, pôde-se verificar que estas percebem a inovação como factor determinante para o sucesso, reconhecimento e valorização da marca que representam. Logo, a apresentação destes casos contribuiu não só para a compreensão, descrição e análise dos referidos processos, mas também para complementar e comprovar a abordagem teórica deste trabalho; ABSTRACT: This study approaches the innovation process in view of the generation of ideas and their influence on daily life and in society. This work is also complemented with a comparative analysis of two case studies, based on the primary collecting technique for data. One of the problems of this study was to demonstrate how organizations understand the innovation / idea generation, and how they systematized them in their companies. Thus, starting from the crossroads of data collected from the companies surveyed, we could see that they perceive the innovation as a key factor for success, recognition and brand value accounting. Therefore, the presentation of these cases not only contributed to the understanding, description and analysis of these processes, but also to supplement and verify the theoretical approach of this work.
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Bergendahl, Magnus. "Collaboration and competition in firm-internal ideation management : Two alternatives – and a third way out." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Integrerad produktutveckling, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-172534.
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The passive reliance on ideas to spontaneously emerge within companies is today replaced with more active and continuous ideation management that embraces employees from different functions and knowledge-domains within the company to create and develop ideas. A frequently observed feature in the active management of ideation is the reliance on collaboration and competition mechanisms. These mechanisms use the strength of enabling people to working together towards a shared interest (collaboration) and the power of enabling people to outperform each other in submitting the best idea (competition). The existing research on collaboration and competition in ideation is found inconclusive about their effects as collaboration is stated to both enhance and hamper performance, and as competition is claimed to both drive and reduce performance in ideation. This constitutes a limitation to the management of ideation as it reduces the ability to actively and purposefully guide ideation through a deliberate use of the two mechanisms. The aim of this thesis is to investigate collaboration and competition mechanisms in firm-internal ideation. A multi-methodological approach has been deployed using three different studies: a multiple case study, a survey, and an experiment. This has allowed for the phenomenon of ideation to be studied using different perspectives and for the individual results to be triangulated. The empirical data has been acquired from both industry and experiments with university students. The conducted research has revealed that the inconsistencies on the effects from the two mechanisms are possible to understand and resolve by applying a more detailed level of analysis. When competition is decomposed into components of individual- and group competition, it is found that individual competition drives idea quantity and that it hampers collaboration, whereas group competition instead is found to induce collaboration and to nurture idea quality. This indicates that competition can be used to manage levels of collaboration in ideation, thereby bridging the two mechanisms. This thesis further presents that the individual effects from each of the mechanisms are complementary to each other. This implies that the effect from each mechanism is retained when combined with the other mechanisms, and that the combined effect is equal to, or even greater than, the sum of the individual effects. This combined use is found to drive both ideation efficiency and motivation, and is offering management an interesting third alternative, out of the two mechanisms, of how firm-internal ideation can be managed in a more effective and efficient manner. An analytical framework is included, presenting the interrelationships between the mechanisms, motivation, ideation behavior and the ideation performance.QC 20150831
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Lämhed, Emelie, and Ida Sjöstrand. "Is it a good idea to share ideas? : A qualitative study about how Open Innovation is used between Chinese and Swedish entrepreneurs in an international market." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85958.
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In order for corporations to develop their business, they could apply an approach of exchanging ideas and knowledge with other corporations could contribute to new significant innovations. The international approach is called Open Innovation and could be implemented both externally and internally within firms. The purpose of this thesis was to examine how Open Innovation is used by Swedish and Chinese entrepreneurs in an international market context. By implementing a qualitative research method, the researchers obtained a deeper understanding of how networks and trust affect Open Innovation when the approach is used. This thesis derived from an inductive approach since the authors made observations and generated theories from those observations, which created a theoretical synthesis. The theoretical synthesis conducted into the operationalization and the interview guide for the data gathering of the semi- structured interviews. The gathered empirical data was compared with the theories in order to analyze the similarities and differences between them. Lastly, the study was concluded by answering the research questions, theoretical, practical, and policy implications, limitations for the study, and suggestion for future research.
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Jordaan, Carl David. "The impact of leader member exchange on shop-floor worker innovation in South African manufacturing firms." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30609.
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This study investigates the impact that certain constructs of Leader Member Exchange (LMX) between supervisors and shop floor workers of South African manufacturing firms have on the willingness of the shop floor workers to introduce new ideas. In particular, the constructs; trust, development of skills and inclusion of the worker is examined. Since shop-floor workers are intimately involved with their day to day operations and work at the coalface, the ideas recommended by these individuals are suggested to often be antecedents of innovation. By gaining an understanding of the relationship between the aforementioned LMX constructs and the willingness of shop floor workers to introduce new ideas, certain modes of behavioural interaction can be implemented in order to enhance shop floor innovation. It is argued that such strategic intervention in turn will result in shop floor innovation as a source of competitive advantage for an organisation.The primary data was collected through physical interviews using a questionnaire that addresses all the mentioned constructs. All of the 50 dyads were usable in the correlation and regression models run. The outcome of this research supports the literature that trust and inclusion are positively correlated with the willingness of shop floor workers to introduce new ideas. Notably was the extent to which workers and supervisors perceived levels of worker inclusion differently. The regression analysis reveals that some of the willingness of workers to introduce new ideas can be explained by the presence of all three explanatory variables namely, trust, development and inclusion. The research has shown that trust contributes to willingness of workers to introduce new ideas, but in contrast to literature, development has a negative impact. The results provide insight into the relationships between these constructs and the willingness of shop floor workers in South African manufacturing firms to introduce new ideas.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Ahlgren, Hedvig, and Moa Landström. "Success within Front End of Innovation- Recommendations for enabling creation anddevelopment of ideas at Atlas Copco,Construction Tools." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210249.
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Several researchers talk about how the greatest source of competitive advantage is a firm's capability to be innovative, and it is a fact that economic growth is built upon innovations and ideas. Ideas belong to the early activities of innovation processes, which can be defined as he front end of innovation (FEI). FEI has clearly been stated to be crucial for the innovative performance of firms, but yet an area which many companies often lack of handling in a structured way. What need to be considered for a successful FEI has laid the foundation of this thesis. The aim with the thesis is to investigate what are key success factors and common pitfalls for processes and activities within the FEI, and how these can be handled by management. The thesis is also investigating how ideas and innovations can be measured in order to take the right decisions for different types of ideas by a suitable level of decision-makers. The thesis was carried out as a case study at Construction Tools division at Atlas Copco who had expressed the same demand as many companies appear to struggle with: a structured FEI. The goal with the thesis is therefore to propose recommendations towards a successful FEI, including structures, methods, and tools for the case company. In order to do so, twelve semistructured qualitative interviews with internal employees followed by ten semi-structured qualitative interviews with external companies in different industries and sizes were conducted. Along with the case study, a literature study was also performed. The collected data were analyzed and benchmarked towards the literature and the research questions, which resulted in several conclusions which are both general as well as organizational specific for the case company. These are amongst others: a structured innovation portfolio management including clear budget allocation and innovation strategy; enabling a creative culture; separating staff for conducting work regarding disruptive ideas; involvement by top management in the development of ideas.Flertalet forskare pekar på att bland det viktigaste för ett företag att vara konkurrenskraftig handlar om deras förmåga att vara innovativa. Idéer hör till de tidigaste aktiviteterna i innovationsprocessen, vilket kan definieras som förutveckling som har visat sig vara tydligt avgörande för företagens innovativa prestanda. Vilka faktorer som företag måste överväga för en framgångsrik förutveckling har lagt grunden för detta arbete. Syftet med projektet är att undersöka vilka framgångsfaktorer och vanliga fallgropar som förekommer i det tidigaste skedet i produktutvecklingen och dess tillhörande aktiviteter, samt hur dessa kan hanteras och påverkas av chefer. Projektet undersöker också hur idéer och innovationer kan mätas för att beslutsfattare ska kunna fatta rätt beslut kring olika typer av idéer. Projektet genomfördes som en fördjupad fallstudie hos Construction Tools divisionen på Atlas Copco som uttryckt samma problem som identifierats hos andra företag: bristen av en strukturerad förutvecklingsprocess. Målet med projektet är därför att föreslå rekommendationer till en framgångsrik förutveckling som inkluderar strukturer, metoder och verktyg för uppdragsgivarna. För att möjliggöra detta genomfördes tolv halvstrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med interna medarbetare på uppdragsföretaget, följt av tio halvstrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med externa företag i olika branscher och av olika storlek. Kombinerat med fallstudien genomfördes också en litteraturstudie. Den insamlade datan från intervjuerna analyserades och jämfördes mot litteraturen och forskningsfrågorna, vilket resulterade i flertalet slutsatser som både är generella samt organisatoriskt specifika för uppdragsgivarna. Dessa innefattar bland annat vikten av en strukturerad innovation- och produktportfölj, innehållande en tydlig budgetallokering och innovationsstrategi; möjliggörandet av en kreativ kultur; att separera personer för att enbart arbeta med disruptiva och radikala idéer; aktivt deltagande av ledande befattningshavare vid idéutveckling.
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Wilhelm, Matthias [Verfasser], and Monika [Akademischer Betreuer] Schnitzer. "Ideas and jobs : an assessment of public policies to promote science, innovation, and employment / Matthias Wilhelm ; Betreuer: Monika Schnitzer." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192663640/34.
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Massei, Fabio <1981>. "INNOVATION IN THE WORKPLACE: The Role of Job Characteristics, Motivation and Organizational Factors in Promoting Ideas Generation and Adoption." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2340/.
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Boman, Hanna. "Utvärdering av innovationsstöd inom eHälsa i Stockholms läns sjukvårdsområde." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-262202.
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This thesis investigates how actors within the health care sector work with innovation and development of information technology products, also called eHealth. eHealth services is an expanding area which will play a vital role in tomorrow's health care system. Staffs within health care organizations do have a lot of ideas of how to develop and improve the work process and how to provide better health care. The study was performed at Stockholms läns sjukvårdsområde (SLSO) and the purpose of this project is to evaluate the support given by SLSO innovation gateway. Innovation gateway is an approach that has been spread to some of Sweden's county councils, where the aim is to take advantage of the staffs ideas and to develop products and services based on activities that contribute to improving health care. Interviews and observations have been made to understand the innovation environment in Stockholms läns lansting. This gave an understanding for which user-centred aspects that are important to consider when developing eHealth innovations. Aspects like security, usability and availability are essential to consider when creating innovations that create value for patients and employees. The results also showed that staffs need better support from the organization and an understanding and knowledge in information technology, law and project management to be able to manage and develop eHealth innovations. The study has also shown that the client, the project and developers must all be involved in the innovation process and work with the organization to succeed. It requires a reallocation of resources to enable SLSO to provide the demanded support.
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Ілляшенко, Сергій Миколайович, Юлія Сергіївна Шипуліна, and Наталія Сергіївна Ілляшенко. "Проблеми споживачів як фактор мотивації їх поведінки і джерело ідей інновацій." Thesis, О. Зень, 2020. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/45440.
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Окреслено важливу роль і значення ідентифікації і аналізу проблем споживачів стосовно ситуацій у яких вони проявляються. Показано, що проблеми споживачів є фактором мотивації їх поведінки на ринку і одночасно джерелом інноваційних розробок, які дозволять розв’язати ці проблеми. Особливої актуальності ідентифікація і аналіз проблем споживачів набувають в умовах поточної зміни технологічних укладів, оскільки використання результатів цього аналізу дозволяє конкретним товаровиробникам обґрунтовано розробити ефективні стратегії інноваційного розвитку в руслі концепції інноваційного випередження, зайняти позиції ринкового лідера тощо. Запропоновано послідовність процедур ідентифікації проблем споживачів та розроблення заходів щодо їх вирішення.The important role and value of identification and analysis of consumer problems regarding situations in which they are manifested. It is shown that consumer problems are a factor of motivation of their behaviour on the market and at the same time a source of innovative developments that will allow to solve these problems. It is especially important to identify and analyse consumer problems in the current changing technological deposits, since the use of the results of this analysis allows specific commodity producers to develop effective strategies Innovative development in the mainstream concept of innovative outpacing, take the position of a market leader, etc. A sequence of procedures for identifying consumer problems and developing measures to solve them is offered.
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Pu, Zhaoxin [Verfasser], and Dietmar [Akademischer Betreuer] Harhoff. "Spillovers and selection of ideas : firm-level evidence from innovation networks, multinationals in China and crowdfunding platforms / Zhaoxin Pu ; Betreuer: Dietmar Harhoff." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2020. http://d-nb.info/123075489X/34.
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Dimas, Anastasios. "D-work innovation : where, when and in which social context do good ideas evolve in the distributed work environment of knowledge workers?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54202.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-160).
The nature of work is changing. Until recently, the majority of people worked in fixed, team-based collaborations in collocated settings for fixed periods of time. Currently we are experiencing a major shift towards distributed work. D-work is multi-tasking (workers participate in many projects and teams that often change), multi-locational (work is conducted by people located in different divisions, firms, organizations and time-zones) and mobile (people conduct work while transiting). D-Work changes the definition of the traditional office and blurs the boundaries between home, workplace and the city. Homes will have to accommodate work, businesses must adapt their policies and office spaces to D-work and cities have to adapt to new patterns of mixed work-live units. At the moment, workers, managers and designers have become less aware of where, when, with whom and during which activities, does the most productive and creative work take place. In an effort to tackle the above mentioned issue, we developed a methodology that combines Context-Aware Experience Sampling with traditional ethnographic tools. Our system is composed of a Bluetooth-based positioning system, a context-aware self-report survey administered on mobile phones and traditional questionnaires. The methodology was tested via a four week case study on innovation that was conducted in a marketing firm based in Helsinki. During the study we collected data from eleven participants about the occurrence of work-related ideas and barriers inside and outside the office space.
(cont.) All participants provided us with information about their work habits by filling out a questionnaire prior to the beginning of the study. By juxtaposing their answers to their actual work-life data that we collected, similarities and discrepancies between the two emerged that helped us to understand and assess their work behavior. General results as well as personal reports that were compiled for three subjects are presented and analyzed. An overall assessment of the system and suggested improvements based on results and participant feedback are also discussed.
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Båth, Johan, and Jakob Köhler. "Innovation Management in Business-to-Business Software as a Service Startups: : Investigating the Lean Startup Methodology and its Shortcomings around Selecting Ideas." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Marknadsföring och Entreprenörskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-212071.
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Managing innovations is a well studied success factor for companies and organizations. This research focuses on the recently established Lean Startup Methodology (LSM) and the obstacles of implementing it in early- and later-stage business-to-business (B2B) Software as as Service (SaaS) startups. The scarcity of academic research around this framework, in contrast to its popularity, motivated the researchers’ aim to provide a better understanding on how it could be adapted to better fit the needs of these companies.Following an interpretivist paradigm, this qualitative research uses a literature review and semi-structured interviews for its purposes. Interviews were conducted with six individuals at four different early- and late-stage startups. The focus was on understanding the realities of working with innovation management and the different approaches at early and later stage startups. Startups face an abundance of ideas regarding what to do next, a hypothesis confirmed with this study. It is the researchers’ belief that the LSM does not provide sufficient tools for organizations to make an idea selection decision without committing too many resources initially. Lastly, the importance of product ownership for an effective innovation management process was validated.In conclusion, we present the need for an updated Lean Startup Methodology with a dedicated selection step to validate an idea early in the process. This contributes to the theory of innovation management and its practical implementation. The identified gap in academic research around frameworks tailored towards these types of organizations provides a good starting point for future research.
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Båth, Båth, and Jakob Köhler. "Innovation Management in Business-to-Business Software as a Service Startups: Investigating the Lean Startup Methodology and its Shortcomings around Selecting Ideas." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223889.
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Nogueira, Leilyanne Viana. "InovaÃÃo tecnolÃgica e crescimento regional no Brasil." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12424.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgicoEstudar os fatores determinantes do crescimento econÃmico à fundamental para compreender por que hà tanta desigualdade de renda entre as regiÃes. A elevaÃÃo contÃnua da produtividade total dos fatores à imprescindÃvel para o crescimento sustentado e hà uma relaÃÃo intrÃnseca entre produtividade e inovaÃÃo tecnolÃgica. à relevante, por isso, investigar a forma como as economias acumulam ideias e conhecimento. O objetivo deste trabalho à estimar a funÃÃo de produÃÃo de ideias das regiÃes brasileiras, a fim de testar a importÃncia da inovaÃÃo tecnolÃgica no desempenho regional e investigar a existÃncia de spillovers de ideias na dimensÃo espacial. Para tanto, considerando as proposiÃÃes teÃricas de Romer (1990) e Jones (1995), estima-se a funÃÃo de produÃÃo de ideias do Brasil e de suas cinco regiÃes pelo mÃtodo dos mÃnimos quadrados agrupados e por efeitos fixos, ambos com erros robustos para contornar heterogeneidades comuns em painel de dados. Os resultados apontam para retornos marginais decrescentes em cada um dos fatores da funÃÃo de produÃÃo de ideias, estoque de conhecimento e capital humano; retornos decrescentes de escala da funÃÃo de produÃÃo de ideias; e nÃo significÃncia de spillovers regionais. Sendo assim, os resultados parecem validar as restriÃÃes paramÃtricas do modelo de Jones (1995) contra as suposiÃÃes de Romer (1990), implicando que polÃticas que pretendam estimular a produÃÃo de conhecimento conseguirÃo modificar o nÃvel de produtividade, mas nÃo surtirÃo efeito sobre a taxa de crescimento de longo prazo.
Studying the determinants of economic growth is the key to understanding why there is so much income inequality between regions. The total factor productivity growth is essential for sustained growth and there is a close relationship between productivity and technological innovation. Therefore, it is important to investigate how the economies accumulate ideas and knowledge. This paper estimates the parameters of the ideas production function of the Brazilian regions, in order to test the importance of technological innovation in regional performance and investigate the existence of spillovers of ideas in the spatial dimension. Based on theoretical propositions Romer (1990) and Jones (1995), we estimate the ideas production function of Brazil and of its five regions by the method of least squares pooled and fixed effects, both with robust errors to overcome common heterogeneities in data panel. We provide evidence for two main findings. First, we find evidence of marginal decreasing returns in each of the factors of ideas production function, knowledge stock and human capital; and decreasing returns to scale in ideas production function. Second, there are no significant regional spillovers. Thus, the findings sound to validate the Jones (1995) parametric restrictions, implying that policies intending to stimulate knowledge production will be able to modify the level of productivity, but have no effect on the rate of long-term growth.
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Mateus, Américo da Conceição. "Product/Brand co-creation methodology crossing marketing, design thinking, creativity and management: ideas(r)evolution." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/19162.
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This thesis introduce a new innovation methodology called IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION that was developed
according to an on-going experimental research project started in 2007. This new approach to innovation
has initial based on Design thinking for innovation theory and practice.
The concept of design thinking for innovation has received much attention in recent years. This
innovation approach has climbed from the design and designers knowledge field towards other knowledge
areas, mainly business management and marketing. Human centered approach, radical collaboration,
creativity and breakthrough thinking are the main founding principles of Design thinking that were adapted
by those knowledge areas due to their assertively and fitness to the business context and market complexity
evolution. Also Open innovation, User-centered innovation and later on Living Labs models emerge as
answers to the market and consumers pressure and desire for new products, new services or new business
models. Innovation became the principal business management focus and strategic orientation.
All this changes had an impact also in the marketing theory. It is possible now to have better strategies,
communications plans and continuous dialogue systems with the target audience, incorporating their insights
and promoting them to the main dissemination ambassadors of our innovations in the market.
Drawing upon data from five case studies, the empirical findings in this dissertation suggest that
companies need to shift from Design thinking for innovation approach to an holistic, multidimensional and
integrated innovation system. The innovation context it is complex, companies need deeper systems then
the success formulas that “commercial “Design thinking for innovation “preaches”. They need to learn how
to change their organization culture, how to empower their workforce and collaborators, how to incorporate
external stakeholders in their innovation processes, hoe to measure and create key performance indicators
throughout the innovation process to give them better decision making data, how to integrate meaning and
purpose in their innovation philosophy. Finally they need to understand that the strategic innovation effort it
is not a “one shot” story it is about creating a continuous flow of interaction and dialogue with their clients
within a “value creation chain“ mindset; RESUMO:
Metodologia de co-criação de um produto/marca cruzando Marketing, Design Thinking, Criativity
and Management - IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION.
Esta dissertação apresenta uma nova metodologia de inovação chamada IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION, que foi
desenvolvida segundo um projecto de investigação experimental contínuo que teve o seu início em 2007. Esta
nova abordagem baseou-se, inicialmente, na teoria e na práctica do Design thinking para a inovação.
Actualmente o conceito do Design Thinking para a inovação “saiu” do dominio da area de conhecimento
do Design e dos Designers, tendo despertado muito interesse noutras áreas como a Gestão e o Marketing.
Uma abordagem centrada na Pessoa, a colaboração radical, a criatividade e o pensamento disruptivo são
principios fundadores do movimento do Design thinking que têm sido adaptados por essas novas áreas de
conhecimento devido assertividade e adaptabilidade ao contexto dos negócios e à evolução e complexidade do
Mercado. Também os modelos de Inovação Aberta, a inovação centrada no utilizador e mais tarde os Living
Labs, emergem como possiveis soluções para o Mercado e para a pressão e desejo dos consumidores para
novos productos, serviços ou modelos de negócio. A inovação passou a ser o principal foco e orientação
estratégica na Gestão.
Todas estas mudanças também tiveram impacto na teoria do Marketing. Hoje é possivel criar melhores
estratégias, planos de comunicação e sistemas continuos de diálogo com o público alvo, incorporando os seus
insights e promovendo os consumidores como embaixadores na disseminação da inovação das empresas no
Mercado
Os resultados empiricos desta tese, construídos com a informação obtida nos cinco casos realizados,
sugerem que as empresas precisam de se re-orientar do paradigma do Design thinking para a inovação, para
um sistema de inovação mais holistico, multidimensional e integrado. O contexto da Inovação é complexo, por
isso as empresas precisam de sistemas mais profundos e não apenas de “fórmulas comerciais” como o Design
thinking para a inovação advoga. As Empresas precisam de aprender como mudar a sua cultura
organizacional, como capacitar sua força de trabalho e colaboradores, como incorporar os públicos externos no
processo de inovação, como medir o processo de inovação criando indicadores chave de performance e obter
dados para um tomada de decisão mais informada, como integrar significado e propósito na sua filosofia de
inovação. Por fim, precisam de perceber que uma estratégia de inovação não passa por ter “sucesso uma vez”,
mas sim por criar um fluxo contínuo de interação e diálogo com os seus clientes com uma mentalidade de
“cadeia de criação de valor”
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Jönsson, Gisela. "Faktorer som förklarar innovativt beteende hos medarbetare." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7335.
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I en föränderlig värld är det viktigt att snabbt möta skiftande krav och
att medarbetare är initiativrika, menar både företagare och forskare.
Medarbetare som gör mer än plikten kräver och tar egna initiativ,
uppvisar Innovative Work Behaviour (IWB). Syftet med studien var
att undersöka om organisationsfaktorerna autonomi, öppet klimat och
rolltvetydighet kan förklara variationer i IWB, med hänsyn taget till
en individuell faktor. Samtliga variabler mättes genom ett
frågeformulär online i ett stickprov om 119 personer.
Korrelationsberäkningar visar att samtliga organisationsfaktorer har
signifikanta samband med IWB. En regressionsanalys visar att det är
individfaktorn som har störst prediktionskraft, följt av öppet klimat,
autonomi och bakgrundsvariabeln personalansvar. Studien visar att
både personlighet och villkor i arbetet har betydelse för IWB.
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Yllera, Juan. "Understanding the role of ideologically driven ideas in the definition of public policies : a case study of the Catalan National Agreement for Research and Innovation (CNARI)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/understanding-the-role-of-ideologically-driven-ideas-in-the-definition-of-public-policies-a-case-study-of-the-catalan-national-agreement-for-research-and-innovation-cnari(36b10991-f12e-4118-948b-d572567a0f67).html.
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This dissertation explores the role of ideas, paradigms and ideology in the definition of public policies. To understand this issue, the thesis developed a conceptual framework and a set of propositions based on the academic literature related to the meaning of ideas and paradigm change in public policy, the impact of epistemic communities, the influence of legacies and the role of ideology from the perspective of the socio-cognitive school of Critical Discourse Analysis. In this dissertation ideology is understood as the ‘fundamental beliefs of a group and its members’ (Van Dijk, 2004: 6) that form the basis of social practices (Van Dijk, 2004: 9) whereas paradigms have been defined as ‘taken for granted world views (…) that constrain the range of policy choices’ (Campbell, 2002: 21) and in turn are bounded by ideology. The research examines the case of the Catalan National Agreement on Research and Innovation (CNARI) which was developed between 2007 and 2008. To capture and analyse this process of policy design the research uses qualitative methods that include face to face interviews, documentary research and coding of visual and textual data. The findings suggests that the design of the CNARI was based on ideas that were firmly placed within a widely acknowledged overall paradigm in innovation policy that itself was shaped and limited by a dominant broader ideology. Factors influencing the role of these ideas included the fact that the underlying paradigm was widely shared across different political territories and levels within Europe, and that the ideas were propagated by two key international organisations (EU and OECD) as well as by a number of highly respected representatives of the international epistemic community, which served to re-enforce the overarching policy paradigm, introduced these policy ideas to the Catalan context, and supported their regional adaptation. The dissertation identifies three proposals for future research: 1) an examination of the role of organisational structures in elaborating and implementing policy which does not involve civil servants, 2) an exploration of how a politician’s personal experience impacts the elaboration of a political programme, and 3) an analysis of the role of open and participatory processes to define policies.
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Ferioli, Marcelo. "Phases amont du processus d'innovation : proposition d'une méthode d'aide à l'évaluation d'idées." Thesis, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010INPL036N/document.
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L’innovation est un élément efficace pour répondre aux défis et perspectives imposés par les événements contemporains (mondialisation, concurrence, bouleversements politiques…). Des politiques liées aux stratégies d’innovation, des études sur les pratiques et les méthodes pour innover sont conduites par les entreprises et promues par les gouvernements. Afin de consolider la capacité à créer et innover, des recherches sont aujourd’hui axées sur les phases amont du processus d’innovation. Ces phases consistent à générer, évaluer et exploiter très tôt des innovations embryonnaires. Notre problématique de recherche concerne spécifiquement l’évaluation d’idées générées dans les phases amont. Les enjeux de cette action sont d’évaluer des idées très peu finalisées, en grandes quantités. Actuellement, le manque de méthodes adaptées, des restrictions de temps ou encore des budgets limités contraignent cette phase d’évaluation. Afin de pouvoir proposer une méthode d’aide à l’évaluation d’idées, nous réalisons une étude bibliographique puis proposons une démarche et des outils conduisant à une évaluation d’idées formalisée et instrumentée. Notre proposition permet d’appréhender les informations des évaluations réalisées et fournit des éléments de visualisation pour aider notamment les experts lors de cette action. Cette méthode s’est construite à partir d’analyses de situations professionnelles sur le terrain et nous a permis de proposer trois modèles. Ceux-ci ont été testés et expérimentés en milieu académique et industriel. Enfin, cette recherche s’est concrétisée par l’élaboration d’une maquette informatique nommée IdéoVal destinée à aider l’évaluation et la sélection d’idéesInnovation is an effective element to address the challenges and prospects imposed by the contemporary events (globalization, competition, political changes…). Innovation strategies, studies on the practices and methods to innovate are led by several companies and are promoted by the governments. In order to consolidate the capacity to create and innovate, current researches are focused on the early stages of the innovation process. These phases consist of generating, evaluating and exploiting embryonic innovations very early in the process. Our research problematic is specifically related to the evaluation of ideas generated in the early stages. The issues involving this action are to evaluate a large quantity of ideas that are not yet finalized. Currently, the lack of adapted methods, time restrictions or limited budgets constraint this evaluation stage. In order to propose a method for assisting ideas evaluation, we made a bibliographical study, and then we proposed an approach and tools leading to a formalized and instrumented evaluation of ideas. Our proposal enables the capitalization of the information from the evaluations carried out and provides a visualization of elements to, in particular, help the experts carry out this action. This method was built from the analyses of professional situations in the field and allowed us to propose three models. These models were tested in academic and industrial environments. Finally, this research was materialized by the elaboration of a software model called IdéoVal, which purpose is to help evaluate and select ideas
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Gumula, Julia [Verfasser], Margarete [Akademischer Betreuer] Boos, Kilian [Gutachter] Bizer, and Susan [Gutachter] Seeber. "Ideas are Craftwork Development of an Innovation Training Course and its Evaluation with female and male Journeymen / Julia Gumula ; Gutachter: Kilian, Bizer; Susan, Seeber ; Betreuer: Margarete, Boos." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1162339608/34.
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Bretschneider, Ulrich, Winfried Ebner, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Helmut Krcmar. "Internetbasierte Ideenwettbewerbe als Instrument der Integration von Kunden in das Innovationsmanagement von Software-Unternehmen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-140397.
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Insbesondere für kleine und mittlere Softwareunternehmen stellen die Erhöhung der eigenen Innovationskraft und -geschwindigkeit entscheidende Überlebensfragen dar. Der heute als hierfür wichtig hervorgehobene Ansatz der „Open Innovation“ hat sich in der Softwareentwicklungsbrache bislang jedoch kaum durchgesetzt, obwohl den Kunden bzw. Anwendern von Softwareprodukten wegen ihres im Umgang mit den Softwareprodukten gewonnenen Erfahrungswissens ein großes Innovationspotenzial nachgesagt werden kann.
Die Durchführung von Ideenwettbewerben stellt in diesem Zusammenhang eine leicht adaptierbare und kostengünstige Methode der Kundenintegration dar. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist, IT-gestützte Ideenwettbewerbe als ein vielversprechendes theoretisches Konzept zur Integration von Kunden in das Innovationsmanagement von Softwareunternehmen vorzustellen.
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Fuller, Matthew. "Transformer les capacités d'innovation : l'impact et l'influence des Fab Labs d'entreprise au sein de grands groupes Resetting innovation capabilities: the emergence of corporate fab labs Making nothing or something: corporate Fab Labs seen through their objects as they cross organizational boundarie Fitting squares into round holes: Enabling innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship through corporate Fab Labs." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLED045.
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Inspirés par un modèle établi par une initiative sociale du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) en 2001, des salariés de plusieurs grandes groupes ont établi des Fab Labs d'entreprise avec l'intention de transformer les capacités d'innovation de leur entreprise.Cette thèse examine l'univers des Fab Labs entreprise, s'appuyant sur des données empiriques récoltées dans des dizaines de labs, avec des activités de recherche principales ayant lieu entre 2014 et 2017 dans les laboratoires de quatre grands groupes mondiaux. L'objectif de cette recherche est de 1) identifier si les Fab Labs d'entreprise influencent les capacités d'innovation d'une organisation, 2) articuler et affiner la représentation managériale utilisée pour justifier la création d'un tel lieu, ainsi que 3) esquisser un mécanisme simple qui permet aux décideurs stratégiques d'évaluer si les activités dans un lab lui permet d'atteindre ses objectifsBased on a pattern established by an MIT academic outreach program created in 2001, individuals in dozens of large organizations established corporate Fab Labs in recent years with the intent to transform their firm’s ability to innovate.This thesis investigates the world of corporate Fab Labs, building on empirical data gathered from dozens of labs, with core research activities taking place in the labs of four large multinational firms from 2014 through 2017. The purpose of this research is to 1) identify whether corporate Fab Labs influence an organization’s innovation capabilities, 2) articulate and refine the managerial representation used to support the creation of these labs, and 3) outline a simple mechanism for managers to evaluate whether a lab attains its desired outcomes
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Bretschneider, Ulrich, Winfried Ebner, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Helmut Krcmar. "Internetbasierte Ideenwettbewerbe als Instrument der Integration von Kunden in das Innovationsmanagement von Software-Unternehmen." Technische Universität Dresden, 2007. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27892.
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Insbesondere für kleine und mittlere Softwareunternehmen stellen die Erhöhung der eigenen Innovationskraft und -geschwindigkeit entscheidende Überlebensfragen dar. Der heute als hierfür wichtig hervorgehobene Ansatz der „Open Innovation“ hat sich in der Softwareentwicklungsbrache bislang jedoch kaum durchgesetzt, obwohl den Kunden bzw. Anwendern von Softwareprodukten wegen ihres im Umgang mit den Softwareprodukten gewonnenen Erfahrungswissens ein großes Innovationspotenzial nachgesagt werden kann.
Die Durchführung von Ideenwettbewerben stellt in diesem Zusammenhang eine leicht adaptierbare und kostengünstige Methode der Kundenintegration dar. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist, IT-gestützte Ideenwettbewerbe als ein vielversprechendes theoretisches Konzept zur Integration von Kunden in das Innovationsmanagement von Softwareunternehmen vorzustellen.
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Varela, Kilian Ana Paula. "Adopción de métodos, técnicas y herramientas para la innovación : framework en función de casos reales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385626.
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The ability to innovate in any organization is directly related to a continuous flow of new ideas capable of responding to opportunities for new products. However, the successful development of innovative products requires more than just generate ideas, other characteristics of the process must be considered. To help understand these characteristics, a Framework to Support the generation of innovative ideas based on two pillars is developed: Conceptual Modelling and Conceptual Modelling applied. The framework is based on three key dimensions: Influential Factors; Methods, Techniques and Tools for Innovation; and Generation of Innovative Ideas. These dimensions are composed of variables, which together help to guide companies in the process of generating innovative ideas. Although cannot be generalized to all organizations, the study contributes empirically to the subject of the first stage of the Innovation Process.La capacidad de innovar de cualquier organización está directamente relacionada con un flujo continuo de nuevas ideas capaces de responder a las oportunidades de nuevos productos. Sin embargo, el éxito del desarrollo de productos innovadores, más que simplemente generar ideas requiere que otras características del proceso sean consideradas. Para ayudar a entender estas características, se desarrolla en esta investigación un Framework de Apoyo a la Generación de Ideas Innovadoras sobre dos pilares: Modelado Conceptual y el Modelado Conceptual Aplicado. El framework se basa en tres dimensiones: Factores Influyentes; Métodos, Técnicas y Herramientas para la Innovación; y Generación de Ideas Innovadoras. Estas dimensiones están compuestas de variables, que en su conjunto ayudan a dirigir las empresas en el proceso de generación de ideas innovadoras con más agilidad. Aunque no se pueda generalizar a todas las organizaciones, el estudio contribuye empíricamente al tema de la primera etapa del Proceso de Innovación.
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Ribeiro, Zilah Maria de Oliveira Barros. "InovaÃÃo tecnolÃgica e crescimento regional no Brasil." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2007. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1425.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorO foco principal do trabalho à providenciar uma melhor compreensÃo empÃrica do diferencial de renda entre as regiÃes brasileiras. Com base nos modelos de crescimento endÃgenos, as teorias recentes tÃm debatido os modelos neo schumpeterianos onde a inovaÃÃo tecnolÃgica lanÃa fortes evidÃncias para externalidades positivas no crescimento. Spillovers de idÃias sÃo medidos atravÃs de modelos economÃtricos, espacialmente entre regiÃes, no processo de geraÃÃo de externalidades. Duas distintas conclusÃes sÃo retiradas dos resultados deste trabalho. Primeiro, existe uma forte evidÃncia da forte ligaÃÃo entre P&D e spillover no tempo com aumentos nos retornos da produÃÃo. Segundo, à verificada uma significante regionalizaÃÃo de efeito spillover positivo, o que indica que a inovaÃÃo à complementar entre as regiÃes, no processo de distribuiÃÃo regional das idÃias.
The main focus of this paper is to provide better empirical comprehension of the income differential among brazilian regions. In the scope of the endogenous growth models framework, recent theoretical debates have relied on neo-schumpeterian models where technological innovation has launched strong evidence toward positive externalities on growth. Spillovers of ideas are measured through Econometric models, spatially across regions, in the process of generating externalities. Two distinct conclusions were drawn from the results. First, there is evidence of a strong feedback in the R&D toward spillover over time with increasing returns in production. Second, it is verified a significant regionally positive spillover effect, which indicates that the inovation is to complement among regions, in the process of regional distribuition of the ideias.
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Babych, Yu, and M. O. Vyshnevska. "Innovative ideas of young Ukrainians." Thesis, КНУТД, 2016. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/5032.
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Gayarre, German, and Carlos Larrea. "Diffusion of innovative ideas : Viral marketing." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1593.
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Canihac, Hugo. "La fabrique savante de l'Europe : une archéologie du discours de l'Europe communautaire (1870-1973)." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BORD0617.
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Cette thèse prend pour objet la construction d’un discours politique et social nouveau - celuide l’Europe communautaire. Ce processus est appréhendé comme le résultat du travail demultiples collectifs d’acteurs politiques et savants. Ces collectifs ont contribué à l’invention duvocabulaire communautaire, d’une part, et à la normalisation de certains savoirs etinterprétations des Communautés, d’autre part. Il s’agit alors de mettre en lumière lesconditions historiques de ce travail collectif dans deux Etats fondateurs de la constructioneuropéenne – la France et l’Allemagne. L’enjeu est d’explorer tout à la fois les conditions depossibilité de l’innovation politique et les conditions de légitimation d’un objet politiquenouveau.En mobilisant des sources historiques variées, ce travail retrace les carrières dans les débatscommunautaires de deux des définitions largement utilisées pour définir l’Europecommunautaire jusqu’à aujourd’hui - la « supranationalité » et « l’économie sociale demarché ». L’étude croisée de leurs usages permet d’examiner les controverses politicoacadémiquesdans lesquelles l’Europe communautaire a été définie comme type institutionneldistinct (de l’Etat-nation) et comme mode de gouvernement spécifique (du marché). A reboursde l’hypothèse d’une « révolution communautaire », la thèse invite à réinscrire l’inventioncommunautaire dans le temps plus long de la construction des Etats nationaux et de leurssavoirs. A l’opposé d’une lecture génétique de la construction communautaire commedéploiement d’un sens défini depuis les années 1950, elle donne à voir la diversité desinterprétations et des savoirs qui ont été produits et se sont affrontés dans les premières, etidentifie les conditions de leurs succès différenciésThis dissertation aims to understand the construction of a new type of political and socialdiscourse: that of the European Economic Community (EEC). This process is taken, on theone hand, to be the invention on the part of political actors and scholars of a vocabulary andconceptual apparatus which made the EEC thinkable. On the other hand, the process isunderstood as the constitution of specialized disciplines which, by more or less successfullyasserting their legitimacy to produce discourse on the EEC as an object, have contributed torendering certain interpretations obligatory. The dissertation highlights the historical conditionsin which actors have contributed to the emergence, circulation and stabilization of suchknowledge in two founding member states of the EEC - France and Germany – up to the firstenlargement of the EEC in 1973. Beyond the specific case of European integration, thechallenge is to explore the conditions both for political innovation and for the legitimization ofa new political object.Making use of several types of historical source, the thesis retraces the careers of two of thedefinitions widely used to define the EEC up to the present - "supranationality" and the "socialmarket economy". Examination of the uses of these terms makes it possible to identify andinvestigate politico-academic controversies in which the EEC has been defined as a distinctinstitutional type (of the nation-state) and as specific mode of government (of the market).In contrast to the hypothesis of a "revolution" in the EEC, the thesis calls for the reinsertion ofthe invention of the EEC into the longer history of construction of national states andgovernment sciences. Contrary to a genetic interpretation of European integration as a definiteproject from the 1950s, it reveals the diversity of interpretations and knowledges which wereproduced and which competed with one another in the early years of the EEC, and identifiesthe conditions for their unequal success. Finally, the dissertation leads us to qualify thehypothesis of the formation of "common sense" about the EEC, emphasizing the national anddisciplinary differences which persist in their interpretations
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Schieber, Andreas, and Paul Kruse. "Idea Mining." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-140499.
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Motiviert durch den Erfolg des Web 2.0 und Social Media in vielen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens und der damit verbundenen Open-Innovation-Bewegung, die Kunden aktiv in den Innovationsprozess einbezieht, schlägt dieser Beitrag eine Integration von Wissensmanagement und Text Mining zur Verbesserung dieses Innovationsprozesses vor. Durch den beschriebenen Ansatz werden Kunden nicht nur motiviert, ihre Ideen und Bedürfnisse auf webbasierten Kommunikationsplattformen preiszugeben, sondern die entstehenden, textbasierten Daten können automatisiert ausgewertet und zur zielgerichteten und zeitnahen Weiterentwicklung der Produkte eingesetzt werden. Anhand zweier Anwendungsszenarien aus der Praxis werden das resultierende Prozessmodell dargestellt und dessen Potenziale veranschaulicht.
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Wågström, Greta, and Gustav Meisner. "Innovation Management : Evaluation Criteria for Idea Selection." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252750.
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Innovation outside the company’s core business is essential for any company in a fast-changing environment. Companies that want to engage in strategic innovation in order to embrace emerging opportunities need ways of managing the innovation process. There is currently limited research on how to select among and evaluate innovation proposals for emerging opportunities in the context of intrapreneurship. This master thesis investigates how an incumbent high-tech company that promote intrapreneurship uses criteria in the selection process of innovation proposals. The study conducts an embedded single-case study of the case company, referred to as Company A, by collecting qualitative data through archival documents and 19 semi-structured interviews. The study uses Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to analyse the results. Findings show that an incumbent high-tech company uses a set of criteria that is a mix of the previous findings in the context of new product development and external investors. The criteria utilized in the selection process are within the dimensions market and value, product and technology, operations and financials, corporate alignment, and team. The conducted interviews exposed that personal considerations constitute additional informal criteria for the evaluators, and much emphasis is put on the intrapreneur’s characteristics and presentation. Findings from the interviews suggest that criteria should be utilized less strict in the beginning of the process, which is supported by previous researchers. Criteria also contribute with transparency to the innovation process and can be used as guidelines for the innovator. Christensen’s theory contradicts the use of the criteria market size, corporate alignment and to validate the innovation with a customer because of the nature of emerging markets and technologies.Innovation utanför företagets kärnverksamhet är viktigt för alla företag på en snabbt föränderlig marknad. Företag som vill satsa på strategisk innovation för att kunna ta tillvara på nya möjligheter behöver metoder för att kunna hantera innovationsprocessen. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur ett etablerat högteknologiskt företag som främjar intraprenörskap använder kriterier i urvalsprocessen att välja mellan olika innovationsförslag. Studien genomför en fallstudie genom att studera ett bolag, benämnt företag A, och samlar in kvalitativa data genom arkivdokument och 19 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien använder Christensens teori om disruptiv innovation för att analysera resultaten. Resultaten visar att det studerade högteknologiska företaget använder ett antal kriterier som stöds av tidigare forskares resultat inom området produktutveckling och externa investerare. Kriterierna som identifieras i studien är inom dimensionerna marknad och värdeskapande, produkt och teknik, företagsverksamhet och ekonomi, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och team. Intervjuerna avslöjade att personliga överväganden utgör ytterligare informella kriterier för de som utvärderar, som lägger stor vikt på intraprenörens egenskaper och presentation. Resultaten tyder på att kriterierna bör användas mindre strikt i början av processen, vilket stöds av tidigare forskning. Kriterier bidrar också till insyn i innovationsprocessen och kan användas som riktlinjer för innovatören. Christensens teori stödjer inte användningen av kriterierna marknadsstorlek, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och att verifiera innovationen med en kund på grund av osäkerhet kring framväxande marknader och nya teknologier.
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Schilling, Peter. "Research as a source of strategic opportunity? : Re-thinking research policy developments in the late 20th century." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Univ, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-470.
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Ling, Yang, and Zhou Lingxi. "How to enhance innovation management in manufacturing companies." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Industrial Development, IT and Land Management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7614.
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This thesis aims at how to enhance innovation management in the companies. Collecting the data by surveys which we have sent to five Swedish companies. Through studying the theories and analyzing the data, then we got a new model about how to enhance innovation management. Through the survey and literatures studies, we found that innovation was the most important for an enterprise; it is a power of enterprise survival and development. To enhance the innovation capability, enterprises must strengthen their innovation management. How to enhance the innovation management effectively? With this purpose question, we have analyzed it through management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation. Through the survey analysis and the theories study, there are 9 factors should be considered when the innovation management has launched .the company should know how to balance the dilemma of innovation, moreover, leader own the open views and offer a loose and free environment to the employees, then choosing a right partner and gain more support in form of fund and technology and so on. At last, we created a new model about enhancing innovation management. In conclusion, innovation management should be taken be an active state in organization operation with the management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation.
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Brown, Christopher J. "The acquisition and dissemination of ideas : managing the innovative innitiative." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2006. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6877/.
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This study explores the innovation management of acquisition and dissemination, technological and radical, of product ideas. The nature and value of community learning are explored through four functional communities' interpretation and sense-making of their own, and other communities', practices associated with innovation management. An earlier research study, literature and an initial set of focus group findings, were used to identify four key themes: sub-cultural values, innovation goals, organizational enablers and barriers, and community learning outcomes; linked to functional communities' engagement with an informal innovation community. A combination of frameworks, i. e. 'communities of practice' (CoP), organisational and cultural, are reviewed, and an initial community learning process model constructed which is subsequently used to explore the four themes. Central to this study is the interpretative ethnographic approach and the adoption of a single case participatory action research methodology, which is underpinned by the practice of groundedt heory. The critical roles of the researchera nd co-researchers are discussed, highlighting the importance of multiple methods of observing and collecting data: focus groups, interviews, observation, action workshops, collection of hall-talk, and documentation such as e-mails, memos, project notes and strategy documents. The functional communities' value orientations are important to understanding their perceived and expected roles within innovation communities. Changes in the nature of the communities' interpretation of customer value are discussed together with an apparent increased role ambiguity. Communities' outcome criteria associatedw ith the innovation community are explored with a specific focus on performance, attitudinal and behavioural outcomes. The findings attest to a strong link between the expected outcome measures and communities' mutual expectations of other innovation community members. Community environment and its impact on CoP are explored through the practices of collaboration, conflict and innovative leadership. The initial findings suggest that the 'state of trust' between communities is directly related to the leadership style and the collaboration between members. The principal contribution of this study was to the development of a community learning process model, which mapped their identities, practices and meanings associated with the innovative initiative and the interrelationship between sense-making and practices. The communities' 'legitimacy of contribution' in the case of the initiative was determined by their perspective of customer value orientation and the sense-making of their own, and others', practices. These practices, the research suggests, were influenced by their symbolic interpretation of the sharedi nnovation goals of the innovation community. This research attests that perceived value orientation is directly linked to communities' practices, and the prospective sensemaking of the relationship between practices and outcomes. Hence, desired value orientation is indirectly related to role ambiguity and functional community engagement with innovation communities. Future research needs to differentiate between desired and perceived value orientation and actions.
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YANG, YANG. "OPEN INNOVATION CONTESTS IN ONLINE MARKETS: IDEA GENERATION AND IDEA EVALUATION WITH COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/151328.
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Business Administration/Management Information SystemsPh.D.
To overcome constrained resources, firms can actively seek innovative opportunities from the external world. This innovation approach, called open innovation (Chesbrough 2003; Hippel 2005; Terwiesch and Ulrich 2009; Terwiesch and Xu 2008), is receiving more and more attention. Facilitated by the global Internet and emerging forms of information technology, it has become very easy for companies to generate large numbers of innovative solutions through the use of online open innovation contests or crowdsourcing contests (Archak and Sundararajan 2009; Terwiesch and Ulrich 2009; Terwiesch and Xu 2008; Yang et al. 2009).For an innovation project to succeed, it is necessary to generate not only a large number of good ideas or solutions, but also to identify those that are "exceptional" (Terwiesch and Ulrich 2009). This dissertation contains three studies that aim to improve our understanding of how best to use contests as a tool to aggregate external resources (collective intelligence) in the generation and evaluation of solutions. The first study views an innovation contest from the innovation seeker's perspective and provides insights on how to improve contest performance. The second study views an innovation contest from the innovation solver's perspective examining the characteristics and strategies of winners and solvers. Finally, in the third study, a new approach to the solution evaluation process is introduced, which is referred to as open evaluation. In this approach, a prediction market is used as an aggregation mechanism to coordinate the crowd in the evaluation of proposed solutions. These three studies make a number of contributions to the literature, addressing core issues in the area of online innovation contests. The analyses, which leverage large-scale empirical data, produce a number of profound results, which can help people to understand how best to use and design innovation contests in an online environment, for idea generation. Further, these studies present a variety of managerial implications associated with the aggregation of individual effort (collective intelligence) to evaluate the ideas that are generated by an innovation contest. We hope that our studies can help open innovation pioneers, such as Google, to systematically generate and identify exceptionally good ideas at much lower costs. By utilizing our findings, we expect that more firms will be able to adopt an open innovation strategy, both systematically and easily.
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Ramoser, Hannes, and Fredrik Hygerth. "Värdet av Personligheter i Front-End Innovation." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192336.
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Denna rapport söker att utforska ett nytt sätt att organisera front-end innovation. Därmed förbättra modeller av aktuell forskning som ger belägg för framgångsrika sociala nätstrukturer eller heterogenitetförhållanden, målet med denna studie är att hitta idealiska personlighetskonstellationer inom projektteam - för att göra dem kraftfulla och användbara. Det finns begränsad forskning som beskriver hur individers personlighetsdrag i team påverkar förmågan att innovera, dock vet man att personligheten är en absolut nödvändigt för att matcha ihop rätt personer för att skapa rätt resultat. Inledande research påvisade fyra idénytto- dimensioner som gör en idé värdefull; kundorientering, genomförbarhet, marknadsmöjligheter och strategisk passform. Den teoretiska referensramen tyder på att var och en av de fyra personlighetsarketyperna (rationals, guardians, idealists och artisans) är naturligt benägna för att producera idéer inom dessa dimensioner. Att känna till den dominerande typen av idéer som enskilda personer producerar möjliggör organisering för att förbättra flödet av idéer. En noggrann metodik har genomfördes där ett initialt personlighetstest med 96 deltagare genomfördes, följt av en idégenereringssession i skräddarsydda personlighets-team med de nämnda deltagarna, det medförde att 179 idéer producerades. Samarbeten med externa yrkesmän underlättade kategorisering av idéerna enligt de fyra idé-nytto-dimensionerna. Vid korrelation- och regressionsanalys av datan påvisades att personligheter har en prediktiv effekt, som kan utnyttjas. Arketypen rationals, var benägna att producera genomförbara och kundorienterade idéer. Fortsättningsvis kan idealister och artisanier porträtteras som motsatser, eftersom deras idéer var mindre genomförbara men rik på möjligheter på marknaden. Ett företag kan därför vertikalt översätta en kortsiktig lågrisk innovationsstrategi genom att sysselsätta rationella arketyper lämpligt. Likaså idealister och artisanier spelar in för att passa en långsiktig framtidsorienterad innovationsstrategi.This report embarks to explore a new way to organise front-end innovation. Enhancing the models of current research that conclude to beneficial social network structures or heterogeneity ratios, this study aim to find ideal personality constellations within project teams - to make them powerful and useful. There is limited research given to how an individual’s personality traits in the context of a team impacts the potential of that team to innovate, yet it is vital to match up the right individuals in order to create desirable outcomes. Initial exploration provided insights to the key dimensions that makes an idea valuable; customer orientation, feasibility, market opportunity and strategic fit. The theoretical framework suggests that each of four personality archetypes (rationals, guardians, idealist and artisans) is naturally prone to produce ideas within one or more of those specific dimensions. Knowing the predominant type of ideas, which teams produce will allow for a better organisational structure to improve the flow of ideas. A meticulous methodology was designed to supply the quantitative and qualitative data needed for such conclusions. A personality test with 96 participants, followed by an ideation session granted for a sample of 179 ideas to be produced. Collaborations with external industry professionals facilitated for the categorisation of ideas according to the four idea utility dimensions. The empirical data was analysed within correlations and regressions to show that personalities have, in fact, a predictive impact that can be exploited. The archetype of rationals, on the one hand, was prone to produce feasible and customer orientated ideas. Alternatively, the idealist and artisan archetypes portrayed to opposite as their ideas were less feasible but rich in market opportunities. A firm can therefore vertically translate a short-term, low risk innovation strategy into tasking rationals appropriately. Likewise, idealists and artisans come into play to suit a long-term and future oriented innovation strategy.