Employee-Driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro

Ann-Charlotte Teglborg, Renaud Redien-Collot, Maria Bonnafous-Boucher and Céline Viala

Chapter 2 in Employee-Driven Innovation, 2012, pp 34-56 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As of 2010, six of the ten most innovative companies in the world were American, two were Japanese and one was Korean. None were European. Three years before, in 2007, the situation in the Old World had been hardly any brighter; according to the European Innovation Scoreboard, the innovation index stood at 0.73 in Sweden, 0.59 in Germany and 0.47 in France. In the same year, the World Intellectual Property Organization listed the number of patents lodged by country. Sweden’s 1,287, Germany’s 17,739 and France’s 12,112 were dwarfed by the USA’s 157,283 and Japan’s 164,954. It seems undeniable that many Western countries are still a long way behind and that closing the innovation gap remains a kind of quest for the Holy Grail in terms of competitiveness and employment. However, on closer inspection, the keys to Paradise are more like a safety device both for national economies and for the men and women who implement innovations on a day-to-day level.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation; Radical Innovation; Workplace Learning; Employee Participation; World Intellectual Property Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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