In daylong hackathons, design thinking seems deceptively easy. On
the surface, it involves a set of seemingly simple activities such
as gathering data, identifying insights, generating ideas,
...prototyping, and experimentation. But practiced at a superficial
level, even great design tools don't go deep enough to create the
shifts in mindset and skillset that are required to achieve
transformational impact. Going deep with design requires more than
changing the activities of innovators; it involves creating the
conditions that shape who they become. Individuals become design
thinkers by experiencing design. Drawing on decades of
researching design thinking and teaching it to people not trained
in design, Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, and Jessica Eldridge offer a
guide for how to create these deep experiences at each stage of the
design thinking journey, whether for an individual, a team, or an
organization. For each experience phase, they specify the mindset
shifts and competencies that need to be achieved, describe how
different personality types experience different kinds of journeys,
and show how to fully leverage the diversity of teams. Experiencing
Design explores both the science and practicalities of design and
includes two assessment instruments for individual and
organizational development. Ultimately, innovators need to
be someone new to create something new. This book shows
you how to use design thinking to make this happen.
Open Innovation Chesbrough, Henry; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; West, Joel
08/2006
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Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this ...research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and his collaborators investigate this phenomenon, linking the practice of innovation to the established body of innovation research, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process. Offering theoretical explanations for the use (and limits) of open innovation, the book examines the applicability of the concept, implications for the boundaries of firms, the potential of open innovation to prove successful, and implications for intellectual property policies and practices. The book will be key reading for academics, researchers, and graduate students of innovation and technology management.
Innovation and its discontents Jaffe, Adam B; Jaffe, Adam B; Lerner, Josh
2008., 20110527, 2011, 2004, 2005-01-01, 20040101
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The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading ...experts on patents and economic innovation.
Innovation is a systemic phenomenon in which institutions, such as firms, government entities and public policy incentives, interact in complex ways. Targeting specific sectors of an economy in order ...to improve the competitiveness and capabilities of domestic firms, interventionist innovation policies can result in the structural transformation of host economies. Numerous examples exist of such policies working successfully in emerging economies and they can be applied to any economic sector, although they are commonly associated with highly innovative industries such ICT, biotechnology and nanotechnology. Innovation Systems, Policy and Management describes how institutions and markets can best be structured in order to promote innovation in key economic sectors. Bringing together some of the leading figures in industrial policy and the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship, this book encourages the reader to think in terms of systems and business dynamics when analysing innovation behaviour, providing an approach useful to policy makers, business leaders and scholars of evolutionary economics.
Changes in the technologies of representation in a heterogeneous, distributed sociotechnical system, such as a large construction project, can instigate a complex pattern of innovations in ...technologies, practices, structures, and strategies. We studied the adoption of digital three-dimensional (3-D) representations in the building projects of the architect Frank O. Gehry, and observed that multiple, heterogeneous firms in those projects produced diverse innovations, each of which created a wake of innovation. Together, these multiple wakes of innovation produce a complex landscape of innovations with unpredictable peaks and valleys. Gehry's adoption of digital 3-D representations disturbed the ecology of interactions and stimulated innovations in his project networks by: providing path-creating innovation trajectories in separate communities of practice, creating trading zones where communities could create knowledge about diverse innovations, and offering a means for intercalating innovations across heterogeneous communities. Our study suggests that changes in digital representations that are central to the functioning of a distributed system can engender multiple innovations in technologies, work practices, and knowledge across multiple communities, each of which is following its own distinctive tempo and trajectory.
Abstract
The above article, published online on 3 June, 2014 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Gloria ...Barczak and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to unattributed overlap with previously published material in:
“Antecedents and Outcomes of Strategic Thinking”, Byeong‐Joon Moon, Journal of Business Research 66 (2013), p. 1698–1708.
“Determinants and Outcomes of Radical Product Innovations by Korean Firms”, Byeong‐Joon Moon, Journal of Global Academy of Marketing Science 16:4, p. 13‐38.
In correspondence with the Editor, Prof. Moon has indicated that Prof. Oh was not responsible for any of the overlapping material in their 2014 article and Prof. Moon accepts sole responsibility for this article being retracted.
Reference
Moon, B.‐J. and Oh, H.‐M. (2014), Antecedents and Outcomes of Radical and Speedy Product Innovation: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation. Journal of Product Innovation Management. doi:
10.1111/jpim.12179
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