Communities of Innovation: A Synthesis

Benoit Sarazin, Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon

Chapter 1 in Communities of Innovation:How Organizations Harness Collective Creativity and Build Resilience, 2021, pp 3-26 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: As a key issue for socio-economic development, innovation in the business world is currently undergoing a profound and irreversible upheaval. Until a few years ago, innovation processes were conducted in organizations according to well formalized methods, ensuring the framing and formatting of new ideas from the R&D laboratory to the market. These proven methods regulated in a coordinated manner the activities of formal groups within the company (functional departments such as methods offices, engineering, production management or marketing) involved in innovation processes structured in project teams and driven by a strict sequence of activities. As technological and business challenges become more complex, these traditional forms of innovation are no longer sufficient to provide the organization with the knowledge and ideas needed to develop new and appropriate solutions…

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
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