Communities of Innovation:How Organizations Harness Collective Creativity and Build Resilience

Edited by Patrick Cohendet, Madanmohan Rao, Émilie Ruiz, Benoit Sarazin and Laurent Simon

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Abstract: This book describes the important role played by communities in innovation processes and how organizations can benefit from it. A community brings together individuals who share a common passion for a given area of knowledge and can contribute to innovation at different levels: capitalization of good practices, problem solving, sharing of expertise, or development of new and creative ideas. The literature has progressively identified many variants of communities such as communities of practice, epistemic communities, communities of interest, virtual communities, etc. These forms of communities differ regarding the type of the specialized activities of knowledge on which they focus. As practitioners and academics increasingly emphasized the needs of collaborative approaches in innovation, they progressively challenged the traditional idea that innovation is mainly generated by hierarchical corporate departments and highlighted the active role that communities play in innovation processes. The aim of this book is to shed light, using multiple examples, on the proactive and fundamental role of communities in the new innovation practices of organizations.

Keywords: Innovation Management; Creativity Management; Communities of Innovation; Resilience and Creativity; Business Creativity; Business Innovation; Managerial Innovation; Collaborative Innovation; Open Innovation; Crisis Management; Communities of Practice; Communities of Knowledge; Collective Modes of Learning; Collective Innovation; Middleground (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 O33 O36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9789811234279
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Communities of Innovation: A Synthesis , pp 3-26

Benoit Sarazin, Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon

Ch 2 Communities of Innovation at the Ubisoft Montréal’s Studio , pp 29-44

Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon

Ch 3 Salomon Breathes New Life into its Innovation Approach Through Sports Communities , pp 45-67

Benoit Sarazin and Jean-Yves Couput

Ch 4 Schneider Electric is Steering its Communities of Practice with the Communities@Work Program , pp 69-92

Louis-Pierre Guillaume, Catherine Thiesse, Coline Delmas, Claudia Folco and Karine Goglio-Primard

Ch 5 Key Success Factors for Communities of Practice in Innovation: The Case of the Groupe SEB , pp 93-111

Lusine Arzumanyan, Charlotte Wieder and Claude Guittard

Ch 6 The Schmidt Groupe Organizes Ideation with the Créativ’Café , pp 113-142

Tristan Cenier and Patrick Llerena

Ch 7 The Renault Innovation Community: 2007–2017 , pp 145-168

Frédéric Touvard and Dominique Levent

Ch 8 “Ecosystem of Innovation”, A New and Efficient Business Practice: The Case of the Open Lab Michelin , pp 169-184

Erik Grab

Ch 9 Innovate with an Online User Community , pp 187-203

Guy Parmentier

Ch 10 Hacking Health: Building a Community of Innovation Through Events , pp 205-239

Karl-Emanuel Dionne, Luc Sirois and Hugues Boulenger

Ch 11 Fertilizing the Indian Milieu of Ocular and Plastic Surgery in Delhi: The Role of a Global Agent , pp 241-259

Karine Goglio-Primard, Odile de Saint Julien and Florence Crespin-Mazet

Ch 12 Orchestrating External User Communities and Balancing Control and Autonomy in Fast Growing Community Contexts: Lego Group and Ankama , pp 263-283

Ruiz Émilie, Romain Gandia and Sébastien Brion

Ch 13 Crisis Communities: New Forms of Action During the COVID-19 Health Crisis , pp 285-295

Zoé Masson and Guy Parmentier

Ch 14 Communities of Innovation: From Co-Creation to Resilience , pp 297-325

Madanmohan Rao

Ch 15 The Practice of Communities: How Can Society Mobilize Communities of Innovation , pp 329-351

Benoit Sarazin, Laurent Simon and Patrick Cohendet

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