Innovation and the creative process : towards innovation with care

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Title:

Innovation and the creative process : towards innovation with care

Author:

Fuglsang, Lars.

ISBN:

9781847203878

Publication Information:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.

Physical Description:

xv, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

New horizons in the economics of innovation

Series Title:

New horizons in the economics of innovation

Contents:

INTRODUCTION -- 1. Innovation with Care: What it Means -- PART 1: INVOLVEMENT -- 2. Innovation and Involvement in Services -- 3. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) as Innovation: Taking Care of the Right Customers -- 4. Innovation with Care in Health Care: Translation as an Alternative Metaphor of Innovation and Change -- PART 2: IMPORTANCE -- 5. The Public Library Between Social Engineering and Innovation with Care -- 6. Getting Waste to Become Taste: From the Planning of Innovation to Innovation Planning -- 7. Public Innovation with Care: A Quantitative Approach -- 8. Meta-Innovations on Strategic Arenas: Innovative Management in Public Organizations -- PART 3: POSITIONING -- 9. The Interaction Between Public Science and Industry, and the Role of the Øresund Science Region's Platform Organization -- 10. The Role of a Network Organization and Internet-based Technologies in Clusters: The Case of Medicon Valley -- 11. The 'Mad Max Puzzle': Positioning and the Lone Inventor -- PART 4: SENSEMAKING -- 12. Sense Caring in Innovation -- 13. Making Innovation Durable -- 14. Intrapreneurship: Differences in Innovations is a Matter of Perspective and Understanding -- 15. Mindful Innovation.

Subject Term:

Creative ability in business.

Technological innovations -- Management.

Added Author:

Fuglsang, Lars.

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Summary

This book explores new frameworks and methods of understanding and analysing innovation. These are set against a backdrop of 'innovation with care', which is seen as a phenomenon that takes place among many actors with different perspectives, ideas and cultures that must be carefully woven together in order to achieve the benefits of innovation

The new perspectives presented by the contributors will be important in encouraging successful innovation across sectors, organizations and people. They examine how people and organizations deal with the tensions and paradoxes in the innovative process between creativity and innovation, variation and selection, and sense and strategy-making. The book also includes a sociological approach to innovation as a complement to economic perspectives in order to better understand how people can benefit from innovation in a number of interesting private and public cases. To benefit from innovation, it concludes, people depend less on formal roles and formal organization than on a caring approach that enables them to deal with and interpret evolutions across people, organizations and sectors.

This highly original, innovative book will provide fascinating reading for a diverse audience, including academics, researchers, policymakers and managers with an interest in innovation, organization studies, institutional theory and, more generally, business and management.