The Department of Business Information Systems at the University of Leipzig conducted a web based study on innovation laboratories worldwide. About 190 innovation laboratory websites could get identified. The innovation laboratories were evaluated and categorized according to the descriptions on the websites.

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. The literature documents that increasing knowledge transfer can both increase and decrease an organisation's capability to innovate. This study proposes a model that integrates these two theoretical standpoints and in doing so hypothesizes a non-linear (parabolic) relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. Empirical research to date, including the work of Storey and Kelly (2002), document a linear relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. In order to investigate the possibility of a non-linear relationship this study proposes and tests refinements to Storey and Kelly's methodology. A refined survey questionnaire was sent to all the local government councils within two Australian states and both linear and quadratic statistical analyses were performed. The results of this pilot study revealed linear relationships between four of the six knowledge transfer questions and the innovation measurement question. A further refinement to the methodology is recommended before a non-linear relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation is rejected.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2009. / Härtill 3 uppsatser.

Introduction and purpose: Innovation has become an increasingly important part of organizational development, both product development and process development. This due to globalization and increased competitiveness on the market. Innovation is about to develop and adapt strategies to focal organization, and to improve capabilities that is useful for current situation and circumstances. This is something that has proved to be difficult for organizations. The case organization in this thesis work perceive to find strategies for how to structure their work with innovation management, by make use of the skills and available resources.   The purpose of this thesis work is to identify obstacles that prevent innovation and to suggest how a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) with outsourced production can improve their innovation capabilities to be more competitive in market. Method: This thesis work is based on information collected and analyzed through semi-structured interviews with managers within a case organization. The interviews were carried out in order to create an understanding of current organization. Chosen questions concerned how the organization are working with innovation management. Results: Obstacles for innovation capabilities can be based on several different factors. For example, an obstacle in this case could be lack of internal competencies, lack of communication between the organizational departments or too extensive project. Such obstacles are commonly expressed within the organization. Even, unexpressed obstacles could be another factor. Structure and definition of the innovation work, or outsourced production processes which results in limited possibility for impact, are examples for unexpressed obstacles. Both types have a significant impact on innovation capabilities, but it may be different to encode. Conclusion: Through this thesis work, several obstacles that prevent innovation in organization have been identified. These obstacles regarding to structure and develop an internal functioning work with innovation, were all concerned parts promotes for an innovative organization. Increased market knowledge and external collaborations are also important strategies for SME organizations with outsourced production processes to consider, in order to improve their innovation capabilities. Keywords: Innovation Management, Innovation with outsourced production, Innovative culture, Be innovative with existing resources, Increase innovation capabilities.

A palavra inovação se tornou comum no ambiente empresarial como um meio de se obter melhores resultados e ganhar vantagem competitiva. Dessa forma, para que esses objetivos sejam atingidos as empresas se viram obrigadas a adotar métodos de gestão que garantissem uma contínua geração de inovações. Entretanto, não existe um método capaz de garantir a inovação nas empresas, mas sim estudos sobre as condições que favorecem o surgimento de inovações. Portanto as empresas que tiverem um modelo de gestão comprometido com a criação dessas condições facilitadoras terão uma probabilidade maior de gerar inovações. Contudo, antes não havia conhecimento se as características específicas do mercado, no qual a empresa estava inserida, interferiam na implantação dessas condições. Durante este estudo, os gestores de quatro unidades do grupo Taurus foram ouvidos, de modo a observar como estes gestores viam a influência do mercado sobre a gestão da inovação. / The word innovation has become usual in the business environment as a way to achieve better results and competitive advantage. In order to reach these objectives the enterprises needed to adopt management models there could guarantee continuous innovation. Although there is not a single method capable of guarantee continuous innovation in an enterprise, there are researches indicating business environment conditions that make the development of innovations easier. Therefore, the enterprise that has a management model focused in the creation of these conditions will have a better chance of creating innovations. Even with this knowledge, there was no previous understanding if the market characteristics could interfere in the implementation of these conditions. During this research, the top managers of four units of the Taurus group were heard in order to observe how these managers felt the market influence over the innovation management.

Este estudo analisa conceitos da linguagem científica, veiculados em periódicos nacionais da área de Administração, no período de 2008 a 2012, mais precisamente, 11 revistas classificadas pelo Qualis-Capes. Para tanto, focaliza a Teoria da Gestão da Inovação, embasada na Teoria Econômica da vertente schumpeteriana e neo-schumpeteriana e na Teoria da Linguagem. O ponto de partida foi o questionamento sobre: Qual a estrutura lógica dos conceitos-chave dos artigos sobre Gestão da Inovação? O objetivo geral foi verificar a consistência da linguagem empregada na produção de artigos brasileiros sobre a Gestão da Inovação em relação à sua Teoria. Como objetivos específicos, foram definidos os seguintes: identificar conceitos-chave por meio de um estudo-piloto; confrontar os conceitos identificados encontrados com aqueles elencados no projeto da dissertação; calcular a frequência do uso de tais conceitos-chave; formar clusters com os conceitos empregados pelos pesquisadores da área e, confrontar com as teorias de base o conteúdo de alguns conceitos de maior ocorrência. Este estudo classifica-se como uma pesquisa exploratória, com tratamentos quantitativo (mineração de textos) e qualitativo (análise de conteúdo) de dados. Os nove conceitos pesquisados foram os seguintes: Aprendizagem; Ciência e conhecimento científico; Capacidades (capabilities); Informação; Inovação; Invenção; Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (P&D); Técnica e Tecnologia. O estudo-piloto constou da leitura de 31 artigos de uma das 11 revistas, cuja especialização era o tema da inovação. A análise quantitativa resultou em 10 clusters, representados por dendrogramas. A análise qualitativa confrontou alguns excertos extraídos dos artigos selecionados com as teorias de base da dissertação. O resultado da análise quantitativa apontou que os conceitos de “Informação”, “Aprendizagem” e “Tecnologia” são os que mais formam clusters com o conceito de “Inovação”. A análise qualitativa revelou que existem lacunas na relação lógica conceitual em muitos casos de aplicação dos conceitos-chave. Este motivo torna-se suficiente para estimular o surgimento de novos estudos nesta linha de tendência multidisciplinar. / The present study examines concepts of scientific language, conveyed in national Business Management scientific journals area, within the period between 2008 and 2012. Therefore, focuses on the theory of Innovation Management, based in the Economic Theory of schumpeterian and neo-schumpeterian strand and in the Theory of Language. The starting point was the question: "what key concepts in Innovation Management constitute a language that matches theoretical content?" The overall goal was to verify the language consistency used in some of Brazilian production of Innovation Management articles. Specific objectives were defined as follows: identify key concepts in reading scientific Brazilian articles chosen, list the key concepts related to innovation management; calculate use frequency of these key concepts; clustering the concepts used by this area researchers and compare contents of some highest occurrence concepts with based theories. This is an exploratory and descriptive research with quantitative (text mining) and qualitative (content analysis) treatment of data. The nine concepts surveyed were: Learning, Science and scientific knowledge; Capabilities; Information, Innovation, Invention, Research and Development (R&D); Technique and Technology. In order to confirm the pre-established conceptual corpus, we conducted a pilot study with a reading of 31 articles from a journal on the topic of innovation. The quantitative analysis resulted in 10 clusters, represented by dendrograms and qualitative analysis confronting extracted excerpts of selected articles with base theories of the study. The results of quantitative analysis showed that the concepts of "Information", "Learning" and "Technology" are the most clustered with the "Innovation" concept. Qualitative analysis revealed that there are gaps in the logic conceptual relationship in many of key concept applications. This fact becomes reason enough to stimulate the emergence of new studies in this multidisciplinary trendline.

Posto o contexto de competitividade no mercado global, é fato que nações e organizações buscam formas de inovar para permanecerem sustentáveis. Entretanto, para efetivar os anseios de serem competitivas e inovadoras, há uma necessidade de manter estratégias e uma estrutura de rotinas que as possibilite gerir e gerar as inovações, de forma a transformar suas capacidades tecnológicas em algo efetivo. O objetivo deste trabalho é a identificação de uma estrutura de um sistema de gestão de inovação adequada para atender o posicionamento estratégico de inovação. Utilizando o caso de uma empresa do setor do vestuário, elaborou-se um modelo para análise de capacidade tecnológica, focando tópicos relacionados à estratégia. Os dados foram coletados por entrevistas em profundidade com o corpo diretivo e por questionários de pesquisa respondidos por 50 líderes da empresa. Os resultados obtidos convergiram na estruturação de um sistema de gestão da inovação que contemple: a) estratégia de inovação; b) capacidade tecnológica que sustente funções de alinhamento e funções da organização – produtos/serviços, gestão de projetos, processo/tecnologia e infra-estrutura e c) sistema de gestão da inovação que tenha relações com alinhamento às estratégias de inovação de produtos e processo, estrutura adequada para inovar oriunda de gestão de projetos eficaz, desenvolvimento de produtos que identifiquem a empresa no mercado como inovadora e por fim, foco em seus mercados de atuação. / The competitive environment of global markets leads nations and organisations to engage in a continuous search for innovation, in order to maintain sustainability. However, to effectively become innovative, firms need to sustain a formal structure of strategies and routines that enable them to generate and manage innovation, enhancing their technological capabilities. This study aims to identify an innovation management system structure that better fits to the strategic positioning of a specific firm. The firm in which the case study is developed belongs to the clothing sector. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with the firm’s directive body and application of research questionnaires along with 50 respondents. Results allowed the development of an innovation management system considering three aspects, namely: a) innovation strategy; b) technological capabilities to sustain organisational functions – products/services, project management, process/technology, and infrastructure; and c) structure and alignment, in order to allow efficient project management, development of innovative products and market orientation.

p. 1 - 221 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-16T19:25:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FFFFFF.pdf: 1512749 bytes, checksum: e6c1cee0e02c08e81ce30ecceaf54cf4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-16T19:25:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FFFFFF.pdf: 1512749 bytes, checksum: e6c1cee0e02c08e81ce30ecceaf54cf4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A propriedade intelectual (PI) é um importante instrumento para apropriação do desenvolvimento tecnológico e para o estabelecimento de vantagens competitivas, notadamente para as empresas que empreendem inovações tecnológicas, na economia do conhecimento e da intangibilidade. Neste contexto de acirrada competitividade, emerge a necessidade da gestão estratégica dos ativos intangíveis, que perpassa pelos direitos de PI, mas não se encerra na obtenção de proteção legal a tais direitos. Assim, o objetivo desta dissertação é identificar, por meio de estudo multicaso junto às empresas Braskem S.A. e Plásticos Novel do Nordeste S.A., selecionadas pela sua representatividade no uso do sistema de propriedade industrial, o alinhamento entre as práticas de gestão adotadas e o postulado pela literatura em termos de orientação estratégica para a gestão de propriedade intelectual. Para o alcance de tal objetivo, são revisadas as produções científicas sobre economia do conhecimento e suas influências no mundo corporativo; sobre inovação, seus impactos na competitividade das firmas e seu relacionamento com a temática principal (PI). Em seguida, discute-se propriedade intelectual, contemplando seus aspectos jurídicos e gerencias. A parte empírica do estudo evidencia o perfil das empresas pesquisadas, bem como análises individuais e comparativas com relação às práticas de gestão de PI encontradas. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que a condução da gestão pelas empresas e as práticas verificadas são dependentes da estratégia empresarial, principalmente em sua vertente tecnológica e/ou de inovação e mercadológica, resguardadas suas características em termos de estruturas de mercado (porte, área de atuação, tipo de produto, mercados, estrutura industrial, estratégias) e outras especificidades. / Salvador

Plusieurs travaux ont permis de caractériser le rôle des biais cognitifs dans les situations de créativité. Parmi ces biais, on distingue particulièrement les effets de fixation, c’est à dire les connaissances et solutions habituelles qui viennent spontanément à l’esprit des individus lors d’une situation de créativité (tâche de créativité, de génération d’idées, ou de résolutions de problèmes créatifs), et qui contraignent la génération d’idées et de solutions nouvelles et plus créatives. Ces différentes études ouvrent plusieurs pistes pour enrichir la gestion de ces biais cognitifs dans les processus d’innovation.Le leadership est reconnu pour avoir un rôle fondamental à jouer pour aider une équipe à surmonter ces effets de fixation dans un écosystème en situation de créativité. Le leadership est définit comme étant un processus d’influence social dans lequel un ou plusieurs acteurs (jouant le rôle de leaders) emmènent d’autres acteurs (leurs équipes) à atteindre un objectif commun. Leadership et créativité passent souvent pour antagonistes - soit que les leaders soient « créatifs » à la place de leurs équipes, soit que l'autorité doive disparaître pour libérer leurs créativités.Dans un cadre de recherche multidisciplinaire mixant science de gestion (management de l’innovation), sciences cognitives (biais cognitifs à la créativité) et science de la conception innovante (théorie C-K), les leaders créatifs peuvent jouer des rôles très importants pour aider leurs équipes à surmonter les effets de fixations, et ceci selon des règles expérimentales très précises et contrôlées, consistant d’une part à détecter les phénomènes de blocage (la fixation), et d ‘autres part à entreprendre les modes d’actions appropriés pour les surmonter.De plus, ces règles expérimentales peuvent être contextualisées dans des conditions plus générales en organisation, et ceci via les outils de gestion du leadership organisationnel classique (recrutement, allocations de temps et de ressources, motivation, prise de la décision, évaluation, création de climat, spécification des objectifs, etc..). En effet, les méthodes de recherches utilisés pour cette contextualisation organisationnelle consistent à i) mettre en place des protocoles expérimentaux permettant d’isoler les phénomènes de blocages cognitifs dans des situations de créativité ; ii) à générer des règles expérimentales de défixation cognitive dans des contextes bien contrôlés (laboratoire); et iii) à contextualiser ces règles expérimentales de défixation cognitive en utilisant des études de biographies de grands leaders créatifs de l’histoire tél que : Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison ou Mark Zuckerberg. / Several studies have helped to characterize the role of cognitive biases, which appear in situations of creativity. Among these cognitive biases, we can particularly distinguish the fixation effects, that is to say, the obvious knowledge and solutions that comes spontaneously in individuals’ mind during a situation of creativity (creativity task, idea generation, or creative problem-solving), and which consequently constrain the generation of novel and creative ideas and solutions. These different studies open new sights to enrich the management of these cognitive biases in innovation processes.Leadership is recognized as having a fundamental role to play in helping a team overcome these fixation effects in an ecosystem in situation of creativity. Leadership is commonly defined as a process of social influence, in which one or more actors (acting as leaders), lead other actors (their teams) to achieve a common goal. Leadership and creativity are often seen as antagonistic – whether leaders are « creative » in the place of their teams, or that the authority and control must disappear in order for creativity of their teams to flourish.In a multidisciplinary research framework combining management science (innovation management), cognitive science (cognitive biases to creativity) and innovative design science (C-K theory), creative leaders can play very important roles to help their teams overcome fixation effects, and this according to very precise and controlled experimental rules, consisting on the one hand to detect the cognitive biases against creativity (the fixation), and on the other hand to undertake the appropriate modes of actions to overcome them.In addition, these experimental rules can be contextualized in more general conditions, such as organizational contexts, using traditional leadership organizational tools (recruitment, resources and time allocations, motivation, decision-making, evaluation, climate creation, goal-settings, etc..). Indeed, the research methods used for this organizational contextualization of the defixation rules consist of i) building experimental protocols in order to isolate the cognitive effects related to the fixation effects in situations of creativity; ii) generating experimental rules of cognitive defixation in highly and well-controlled contexts (laboratory settings); and iii) contextualizing these experimental rules for cognitive defixation using biographical studies of great creative and innovative leaders in the history, such as for example: Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison or Mark Zuckerberg.

Inovar significa recriar, de modo a agregar valor e melhorar a qualidade, a eficiência, a segurança e a competitividade nos processos produtivos e gerenciais das organizações, possibilitando benefícios para toda a sociedade. É nessa perspectiva que são implementados os Programas de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (P&D) do setor elétrico, regulados pela Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL), almejando a promoção da inovação e a ampliação de conhecimentos frente aos desafios e às exigências do setor no País. Apesar da regulamentação existente, ainda existem oportunidades de melhoria associadas à operacionalização da gestão da inovação na rotina das concessionárias. Neste contexto, percebe-se que a qualificação profissional exerce papel fundamental para a agregação de valor tanto à carreira do trabalhador quanto às demandas estratégicas do negócio. O presente trabalho visa elaborar um programa de capacitação profissional EAD, para auxiliar o processo de implantação de sistema de gestão da inovação, em empresa do setor elétrico. Para tanto foram utilizadas duas abordagens metodológicas: (i) um estudo de caso, no qual foram adotadas evidências documentais, registros em arquivos, entrevistas, observação direta e observação participante, para o desenvolvimento de um plano de capacitação; e (ii) uma pesquisa-ação, para planejamento e estruturação da sistemática de capacitação. A partir de premissas da empresa, foram identificados quatro públicos demandantes de capacitação: gestores do sistema, multiplicadores, colaboradores da empresa e avaliadores de ideias. Além disto, foram desenvolvidos quatro módulos aplicáveis aos diferentes públicos: Gestão da Inovação, Ambiente Motivador, Ferramentas para Multiplicadores e Uso do Sistema. A aplicação desta capacitação permite o nivelamento do conhecimento sobre inovação dentro da organização, auxilia no desenvolvimento de um ambiente propício à inovação, dissemina ferramentas aplicáveis a este processo e elucida as funcionalidades do Sistema de Gestão da Inovação-CEEE. Por fim, tanto os módulos desenvolvidos quanto os públicos relacionados ao estudo são detalhados. / To innovate means to recreate in order to add value and improve the quality, efficiency, security and competitiveness in the production and management processes of organizations, providing benefits to all of society. It is in this perspective that the Research and Development Program (R & D) are implemented in the electricity sector, regulated by the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), aiming at promoting innovation and the expansion of knowledge and the challenges and demands of the sector in the country. Despite the existing regulations, there are still opportunities for improvement associated with the implementation of innovation management in the routine of dealerships. In this context, it is clear that the qualification plays a fundamental role in adding value to both the worker's career as the strategic business demands. This study aims to develop a professional training program EAD to assist the process of implementation of innovation management system in power sector company. Therefore, we used two methodological approaches: (i) a case study in which documentary evidence was adopted, files, interviews, direct observation and participant observation, to develop a training plan; and (ii) an action research, to planning and structuring of systematic training. From the company's premises were identified four plaintiffs public training: system managers, multipliers, company employees and assessors of ideas. In addition, four modules were developed for the various audiences: Innovation Management, Motivating Environment, Tools Multipliers and Use of System. The application of this training allows the leveling of knowledge about innovation within the organization, assists in the development of an environment conducive to innovation, disseminates tools applicable to this process and clarifies the features of SGI-CEEE. Finally, both modules being developed as the public related to the study are detailed.