Innovation Management

The importance of monitoring information that serves to assist in decision-making and to anticipate changes has been increasingly recognized in the organizational context because of the growing complexity of the environment. However, the more the strategic importance of the information in organizations is acknowledged, the more difficult it becomes to perceive the difficulties associated with the search and productive use of information. The issues of this research were therefore set up to investigate two points: is there an association between the difficulties perceived by managers in the management of weak-signal anticipative information and the level of entrepreneurial orientation of organizations? And is there is an association between the perceived difficulties and the dimensions of uncertainty perceived by organizations? To achieve this, we propose to conduct this research from the perspective of Intelligence, given that this view covers the steps involved in the search, identification, classification, storage, dissemination and use of information. This structure will make it possible to associate the main difficulties in the management of weak signals, which were identified in previous studies, according to their nature with the classic steps of the Intelligence process. In turn, this will enable an analysis of the relationship between the most significant difficulties perceived by organizations with the degree of entrepreneurship they employ, as well as with the dimensions of uncertainty perceived.

Purpose: Entrepreneurial capital has recently emerged as an important facet of new venture creation. Much of the evidence to validate such claims has emerged from research that focussed upon large businesses and multinational corporations. There exists a knowledge gap in SMEs. To bridge this gap, this study investigates the dynamics of entrepreneurial capital convertibility in SMEs. 
Design/Methodology/Approach: An approach capturing mainly qualitative data with owner-managers of SMEs in the United Kingdom was executed. Quantitative data generated was analysed using SPSS and harmonized to support a detailed faced to face interview process from case studies. 
Findings: The results suggest that a mixed approach provides an informative process to explore entrepreneurial capital convertibility dynamics in SMEs.
Implication: A model of entrepreneurial capital convertibility dynamics is outlined, that reflects SME owner-managers’ mental ‘mind maps’. Suggestions are made to extend and validate the entrepreneurial capital convertibility model in future research. 
Keyword: Entrepreneur, entrepreneurial capital, convertibility, owner-manager, knowledge management, strategic thinking, design thinking, small and medium sized enterprises, Case Studies (CS).

Anormal Psikoloji kitabı, ruhsal bozukluklar alanında çalışan tüm profesyoneller, psikiyatristler, klinik psikologlar, psikologlar, psikolojik danışmanlar, hekimler, sosyal hizmet uzmanları, psikiyatri hemşireleri ve bu alanlarda öğrenci yetiştiren akademisyenler ile eğitim alan öğrenciler için temel bir başvuru kitabıdır.
2013 yılının Mayısı ayında yayımlanan DSM-5 ölçütlerine göre ruhsal bozukluklarla ilgili sunulan bilgilerin güncellemesinin de yapıldığı bu kitap, tüm dünyada pek çok üniversitenin psikiyatri ve psikoloji bölümlerinde ders kitabı olarak okutulmaktadır.
Kitabın her bölümünde, ilk olarak ruhsal bozukluklarla ilgili vakalar sunulmakta, daha sonra bozuklukların klinik tanıları yapılmakta ve DSM-IV-TR’den farklı olan DSM-5’te yapılan değişikliklere yer verilmektedir. Ayrıca, DSM-5’teki tanı ölçütleri, bozuklukların etiyolojisi ve epidemiyolojisi, bozukluklar üzerinde kalıtımın ve çevrenin etkileri, biyolojik ve sosyal ve kültürel etkiler, en güncel araştırmalardan elde edilen verilerle harmanlanarak sunulmaktadır. Ruhsal bozuklukların tedavisinde etkili olacak terapi yaklaşımları ve ilaçla yapılan tedaviler hakkında da bilgiler veren kitap, sahip olduğu zengin içeriği ile eşsiz bir kaynaktır.
Anormal Psikoloji kitabının; profesyoneller ve öğrenciler için önemli bir rehber olacağına, yardıma ihtiyaç duyan insanların sorunlarının çözümüne, ruhsal bozuklukların tanı ve tedavisinde önemli katkılar sağlayacağına inanıyoruz.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how technology transfer offices (TTOs) of a public university of the state of São Paulo use patent valuation methods in the process of using developed technology value and transferring technology to industry. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory qualitative investigation based on a case study conducted in a public university in the state of São Paulo. The university has a TTO and an internal structure for technology transfer. In-depth interviews were conducted with the TTO manager about patent valuation and the answers given were analysed. Findings The results on how TTOs use patent valuation methods in the process of assigning value to technology indicate which factors facilitate and which factors hinder the valuation of patents in technologies developed at universities. Research limitations/implications The possible lack of data disclosure due to confidentiality regarding royalties and trading fees makes further co...

This study weaves together research that has been published over the last 20 years and creates a narrative about how we can change our organisations so that they are fit-forpurpose in the 21st century. Using knowledge management as the starting point, the question "How do we move forward in a sustainable, holistic way to create organisations that are healthy and balanced among social, environmental, and financial performance (triple bottom line)?" needs to be answered. This brand new form of knowledge management is called radical knowledge management (radical KM).

This paper examines the association between university–industry collaboration and firm innovation performance, and the effect of informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer on such an association, using data from a survey of 245 firms in Ghana and employing partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results are of significant relevance to the business community and policy-makers in Ghana and West African. We find that while university–industry collaboration is positively related to innovation performance in firms, informal mechanisms of university knowledge transfer do not and negatively moderate the positive association between university–industry collaboration and innovation performance in firms. It is also found that to facilitate innovation outcomes, formal, legal binding contracts are required. The study recommends that university knowledge generation and innovation policies in Ghana encourage formal collaboration between knowledge exchange actors. It is also sugges...

Background: Innovation is a key prerequisite for being organisationally competitive. Therefore, it is imperative that enterprises grow and mature their innovation capability. Knowledge management plays a fundamental role in the ability of enterprises to innovate successfully.
Objectives: There are no formal guidelines for using knowledge management to grow innovation capability maturity. The researchers intended to develop a knowledge management framework that enables innovation capability.
Method: The scope of the research did not allow for the practical implementation of the framework. However,  ve industry and subject theory experts evaluated the applicability and usability of the framework.
Results: All  ve experts reported that enterprises could use knowledge management tools and organisational facilitating conditions to allow innovation capability maturity to grow. The importance of the framework is that it gives guidelines for using knowledge management as a vehicle for growing innovation capability maturity.
Conclusion: The framework determines whether enterprises’ organisational conditions and knowledge management tools are suf cient to sustain or grow their innovation capability maturity.

In this paper, a bibliometric analysis about open innovation research is developed, covering the period of 2003-2013 (using the Scopus database) and carried out in three steps: 1) characterization of the research on the main trends of open innovation; 2) analysis of the theoretical influence on the open innovation research; 3) analysis of the influence of open innovation literature on other research areas and disciplines. The main conclusions are: open innovation research is mostly focused on the analysis of the U.S.A. and European countries reality; analysis by time periods shows an increase on the number of target countries and regions of open innovation research; the origins of open innovation were influenced by several areas of economics and management, developed over the last decades; there is a lack of research regarding open innovation outside the firm environment, such as in clusters/networks, innovation systems, public policies or at individual level; open innovation resear...

Innovation is a critical factor in building an organization’s culture of growth. Provided that it is properly blended with organizational development initiatives and aligned with the organization’s strategy, it supplies a compelling advantage for the growth process. Neglecting to encompass innovation in an organization’s culture could lead to shrinkage and even extinction, in the case of an intensively competitive market. Executive staff must consider innovative technologies and be aware of all growth opportunities. However, this staff is stressed under information overload. A need exists to reduce the information load and filter available technologies according to the specific needs of the organization. In this paper, the authors propose a recommendation approach to match the needs of an organization against existing technologies (innovative products or services). The organization expresses its customized needs by declaring its preferences over a small reference set of indicative t...

Abstract-Technology foresight deals with the necessity of anticipating the future to better adapt to new situations regarding innovations that directly affect business world. One widely spread methodology in technology foresight is Godet's Scenario Method, which includes a module (MICMAC) performing the so-called structural analysis. The goal of the structural analysis is to identify the most important variables in a system. To this end, it makes use of an influence matrix that describes the relations between the variables. This information is usually given by experts based on their own knowledge and experience. However, some of the information of the influence matrix may contain errors due to the subjective nature of the criteria and opinions of the experts. Here we propose a new analysis that follows a multi-objective approach and allows to measure the sensibility of the model versus possible errors at the input. The well-known NSGA-II algorithm has been used as a solver. The...

This paper reviews academic journal articles and scholarly books focusing on organizational creativity and constructs a schematic representation of the antecedents of organizational creativity, i.e. of the associated drivers and barriers. The literature on organizational creativity is reviewed using a traditional review technique. The focus is especially on more recent developments of the discourse, and therefore this work can be labeled as a state-of-the-art review. The review shows that drivers have clearly been studied more extensively than barriers. It was also recognized that the predominant approach among organizational creativity scholars is to dichotomize the factors influencing organizational creativity, more specifically to discuss the antecedents of creativity mostly from the viewpoint of drivers. In some cases, the antecedents are discussed from the perspective of barriers, but only rarely has it been recognized that the very same factor may either enhance or inhibit cre...

Within the automotive sector, the complex nature of modern car production has resulted in the development of advanced product and process-based technologies. Automotive manufacturing has for some time been undergoing a transformation, moving away from mass employment to an industry which is knowledge-based and supported by highly skilled workers.  This change in the structure of production is increasing the pressure on regional automotive supply firms, forcing them to invest in infrastructure and resource if they wish to continue to supply to the growing regional automotive premium sector.

This paper documents a research project from its underlying impetus to its initiation within the supply chain and the process through which a diagnostic tool was collaboratively developed.  Drawing on the literature about organisational cultures and innovation, comparisons are made between companies, thereby suggesting factors which: (i) contribute to successful preparation for technology transfer, and (ii) maximise the benefits associated with taking a systematised approach to HRD.  The diagnostic tool is able to identify those organisations which are likely to succeed in process/people focused technology transfer.  These outcomes have important implications for the sustainability and growth of industries that can no longer support the autarchic isolationism that survived pre-globalisation.

Although the focus of this work was the development of a tool focused on the supplier network within the automotive sector, the underlying principles could apply to any business or process improvement work.  This paper argues for general applicability, which therefore has significant implications for increasing the broad-based capability and competitiveness of an industry.

This paper reviews the insights that research offers on the impact of different leadership styles on innovation. To do so, we develop a framework, structuring research insights into four dimensions: people, means, effects, and goals/outcomes for innovations. Based on this framework, we review publications on: directive and participative leadership, interactive leadership, charismatic leadership, transformational leadership, transactional & instrumental leadership, strategic & CEO leadership, and shared & distributed leadership. We find strong indications that different innovation stages and types raise different demands on leadership. Against this background, transformational leadership is not the only style to lead innovations, but different leadership styles fit differently well with different innovation types and stages. However, the specification of this fit is still very incomplete and the answer to the question of how to lead innovations remains sketchy. In result of the revie...

Despite the fact that it could help to overcome the current global financial crisis, the concept of open innovation is only very scarcely applied in the financial services sector. This international literature review covering the past decade provides an overview of the relevant body of literature on this topic. Two questions represent the starting point of this work: (1) Why is open innovation so scarcely applied in the banking, wealth management and insurance industries? and (2) Should the financial services sector use open innovation more widely? Our findings show that various organizational factors as well as monetary reasons prevent financial services companies from applying open innovation processes. Yet, by taking into account the potential benefits that the concept of open innovation may yield, this approach should indeed be applied more widely in the financial services industry.

This study has examined the topic of innovation management in lower technological industries with the example of confectionery industry. This examination was conducted by a questionnaire to 42 companies (represents 42,4% of the industry) in the industry in Turkey. The findings have been mainly examined by Tidd and Bessant's scale and its cobweb model to identify the average score of the industry and compare it with ideal score and among companies in the industry. Also, a frequency distribution and correlation analysis were used to specify some noteworthy points. The results show us the level of innovation management in the industry in Turkey and it has found some significant points.

This paper addresses how personal certification in innovation management can contribute to the ongoing professionalisation within the innovation management discipline. The empirical study focused a project in Sweden initiated to develop qualification, specifically personal certification, of innovation management professionals. The project resulted in a certification process and a first batch of certified innovation management professionals. The study aimed to capture the individuals’ reasons for, as well as results and effects from, choosing to acquire a voluntary personal certification within innovation management. A wide range of reasons for taking the certifications was reported such as willingness to learn more; willingness to formalise innovation management competence; a wish to clarify roles, but also to promote the discipline itself. Certification was apprehended as a trustworthy format to achieve this. Identified effects were establishment of a common language, increased vis...

We analyse the effect of business model innovation (BMI) on the product innovation performance of firms, based on a dynamic capabilities theoretical framework. Our empirical study is based on a large-scale representative sample of cross-industry Swedish firms participating in three waves of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) from 2008 to 2012. We hypothesise that BMI in the form of product innovations combined with different complementary and simultaneous innovations in processes, marketing and organisation will act as isolating mechanisms towards replication by competitors, resulting in superior firm performance. Our findings provide support for such hypothesis. BMI is significantly and positively associated with superior product innovation performance. Managers should frame and align product innovations in BMI context, i.e., dynamically adapting product innovations with process, marketing and organisation innovations.

University patenting has become an important research outcome in the past few decades. There has been an increase in the number of faculty patents and individual scientists listed as inventors on patent applications. The effective allocation of funding to universities is of great concern to policymakers. In this paper, we evaluate whether an increase in government funding for academic scientists enhances the performance of researchers in both scientific publications and academic patents or if this merely increases publications in the academic realm. We provide summary statistics from nanotechnology data in Quebec, compare it with other provinces in Canada, and build econometric models of various publication, patenting and grant databases. The analysis illustrates the strong relationship between funding and publication productivity as well as the citation impact of publications. In the light of research performance in patenting activities of academic researchers, this empirical study...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las implicaciones de la desarticulación del sistema de innovación mexicano para las empresas. A fin de alcanzar dicho objetivo, se plantea un modelo articulado del sistema nacional de innovación en función del agente frontera; se reflexiona sobre los resultados publicados por las instituciones mexicanas en el periodo 2010-2012 y se analizan estos dos en combinación con los resultados reflejados en las empresas. Los principales resultados son: los esfuerzos dentro del sistema no son complementarios y, difícilmente, fomentan la continuidad en proyectos de innovación; se enfatiza el papel del innovador de forma separada al emprendedor; no se considera el papel del prescriptor, ni la combinación de los tres roles en un solo agente. La principal conclusión es que las empresas carecen de mecanismos para retener y consolidar sus propios grupos de investigación.

Within a globalized scientific community, sciences are changing to worldwide perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches. The authors of this book illustrate this trend by looking at different study areas of the social sciences. They pay attention to economic developments in the context of globalization such as industry 4.0, new manufacturing methods, socio-technical modeling, cloud technology and accounting, international taxation, and financial literacy. Furthermore, the collection of articles covers issues of communication, media, and women's studies.

A kutatás-fejlesztési aktivitás mérése makro- és mikrogazdasági szinten egyaránt fontos helyet foglal el a stratégiai célok elérésének értékelésében, a versenyképesség, a kutatás-fejlesztési és innovációs tevékenység és teljesítmény minősítésében. A tanulmányunkban megkülönböztetünk egy „nemzetközi, makrogazdasági és regionális” szintet, amely elsősorban országcsoportok, nemzetgazdaságok és kisebb területi egységek aggregált teljesítményének értékelésével foglalkozik, valamint egy „vállalati és projekt” szintet, amely gazdasági társaságok, közfinanszírozású intézmények, non-profit szervezetek, valamint K+F és innovációs projektek (termék- vagy szolgáltatásfejlesztés) mérési módszereit vizsgálja – külön hangsúlyt fektetve az egyes módszerek erős és gyenge pontjaira, alkalmazásának általános és speciális feltételeire, szabályaira. A tanulmány végén pedig bemutatásra kerül a K+F Aktivitás Mátrix, amely ez utóbbi, mikroszintű vizsgálatok során nyújthat segítséget, támogatást a döntéshozóknak.

I am a lecturer, research and author; dedicated, disciplined and enthusiastic team leader and player; results oriented professional with community service work at heart, eager to learn and able to build and maintain relationships at all levels through displaying strong interpersonal, planning, organisational and problem solving skills relevant for organisational growth and sustenance. I have expertise in designing, developing and implementing educational policies, programmes, and curricular for schools, colleges and universities. I am an expert in designing the training and coaching programmes for SMEs and corporate governance. I am a trainer of trainers at the Institute of Board of Directors of Zambia; an examiner at the Examinations Council of Zambia; an assessor, trainer and examiner at TEVETA, and belongs to other professional and association bodies including ZICA, BUSTAZ, ICA, FAZ, CMA, DDCC, and TCZ. My research publications, conference presentations and interests include; cooperatives, entrepreneurship and innovation, SMEs, strategic management, NGOs and Civil Societies, gender, vocational and technical education, agri-business, rural development and poverty eradication.
I am a member of the Chalimbana University Senate, University Policy Committee and Research, Ethics and Consultancy Committee. I chaired the University Examinations Committee for four years and headed the Marketing Committee for three years. I was the founding Dean for the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship (2018-2019), Dean for the Faculty of Leadership and Business Management (2020-2022), and I am currently the Director for Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovations and Consultancy at Chalimbana University. I currently sits in the University Cash Flow Committee, University Procurement Committee, University Policy Committee, chairs the MACOBT Advisory Board, and I am a member of the Chongwe District Planning and Development Committee which is chaired by the District Commissioner.

This article describes the Seeking Solutions approach a problem solving conference using open innovation. The Seeking Solutions process consists of four steps: a call for problems, problem selection, problem broadcast, and a collaborative event. This approach has been successfully used for several events since 2010 with concrete results and real impacts. By mixing open innovation and collaboration, the Seeking Solutions approach brings a new way to solve complex problems and generate real innovation.

Creativity is essential for research and development efforts.
Unfortunately, little is known about how the role of team leaders determines the team’s creativity. Based on a sample of 39 engineering design teams in the space industry, this study examines the effects of leader position within different flows of communication on team creativity. The results indicate that the balance between holding a central or a peripheral position indeed determines the creativity of such teams. Specifically, very central and very peripheral positions of team leaders within the work-flow and awareness network hamper team creativity, whereas peripheral situated team leaders within the information network propel the creativity. In addition, team leaders stimulate creativity when they stay central in the external information network. In managerial terms, the analyses implicate that stimulating engineering design team creativity requires team leaders to smartly limit their involvement in communication and mainly act as gatekeepers to external sources of information.

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Such estimates have drawn attention to the importance of mental disorders for public health. However, because they stress the separate contributions of mental and physical disorders to disability and mortality, they might have entrenched the alienation of mental health from mainstream efforts to improve health and reduce poverty. The burden of mental disorders is likely to have been underestimated because of inadequate appreciation of the connectedness between mental illness and other health conditions. Because these interactions are protean, there can be no health without mental health. Mental disorders increase risk for communicable and non-communicable diseases, and contribute to unintentional and intentional injury. Conversely, many health conditions increase the risk for mental disorder, and comorbidity complicates help-seeking, diagnosis, and treatment, and influences prognosis. Health services are not provided equitably to people with mental disorders, and the quality of care for both mental and physical health conditions for these people could be improved. We need to develop and evaluate psychosocial interventions that can be integrated into management of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Health-care systems should be strengthened to improve delivery of mental health care, by focusing on existing programmes and activities, such as those which address the prevention and treatment of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; gender-based violence; antenatal care; integrated management of childhood illnesses and child nutrition; and innovative management of chronic disease. An explicit mental health budget might need to be allocated for such activities. Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Mental health awareness needs to be integrated into all aspects of health and social policy, health-system planning, and delivery of primary and secondary general health care.

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation—and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of success. But what promises does the notion of innovation entail? What is it about the ideology and practice of business innovation that has made these firms so successful at selling their services to everyone from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies? And most important, what does business innovation actually mean for work and our economy today?

In Creativity on Demand, cultural anthropologist Eitan Wilf seeks to answer these questions by returning to the fundamental and pervasive expectation of continual innovation. Wilf focuses a keen eye on how our obsession with ceaseless innovation stems from the long-standing value of acceleration in capitalist society. Based on ethnographic work with innovation consultants in the United States, he reveals, among other surprises, how routine the culture of innovation actually is. Procedures and strategies are repeated in a formulaic way, and imagination is harnessed as a new professional ethos, not always to generate genuinely new thinking, but to produce predictable signs of continual change.