Managing innovation and change processes: Findings from the Minnesota innovation research program

Roger Schroeder, Andrew Van de Ven, Gary Scudder and Douglas Polley
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Roger Schroeder: Management Sciences, School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Postal: Management Sciences, School of Management at the University of Minnesota
Andrew Van de Ven: 3M Professor of Human Systems Management, School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Postal: 3M Professor of Human Systems Management, School of Management at the University of Minnesota
Gary Scudder: Management Sciences, School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Postal: Management Sciences, School of Management at the University of Minnesota
Douglas Polley: Doctoral student in Strategic Management and Organization-all in the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Postal: Doctoral student in Strategic Management and Organization-all in the School of Management at the University of Minnesota

Agribusiness, 1986, vol. 2, issue 4, 501-523

Abstract: This article describes how innovations develop over time based on findings emerging from seven innovations included in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program. These observations are very different from typical models in the literature of the innovation process. The actual process is fluid, and includes an initial shock to propel the innovation into being, proliferation of the original idea, setbacks and surprises along the way which provide numerous opportunities for learning and failure, and a blending of the old and the new as the innovation is implemented and diffused. This article is one small step in developing descriptively more accurate and useful models of the innovation process based on longitudinal research studies.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198624)2:4<501::AID-AGR2720020412>3.0.CO;2-G

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