Integrated Innovation: Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Innovation and Transformation

Wayne Visser
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Wayne Visser: Sustainable Transformation Lab, Antwerp Management School, Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-14

Abstract: Despite allusions to systemic elements in the conception of innovation more generally, and sustainable innovation in particular, the literature generally fails to capture many of the insights that systems science can bring to our understanding of these subjects. This concept paper elaborates five principles of integrated innovation—diversity, aspiration, networks, convergence and emergence—and describes five stages of integrated innovation: intention, ideation, invention, synovation and transformation.

Keywords: innovation; sustainability; transformation; sustainable development; systems thinking; systemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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