Abstract
Managing creativity for innovation is a key challenge in today’s economy; therefore, the management of ideas will play in increasing role in driving the growth and resilience of organizations. Rather than simple inspired insights, ideas have to be addressed as complex socio-cognitive processes, to be organized and managed. To benefit from the full value of new ideas, management must constantly balance the formal and the informal, the logic of creation and the logic of production, and must learn to couple idea-generation processes and innovation processes through renewed knowledge management practices. In this introduction to the Technology Innovation Management Review's special issue on Creativity in Innovation, the guest editors highlight the need to manage: i) ideation processes to foster creativity, ii) the tension that exists between the logic of creation and production; and iii) disruptive innovation to transform a traditional industry. Today… corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees… but such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.
Highlights
Introduction to the Special Issue onCreativity in InnovationPatrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon “ ” Today... corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees... but such programs make no difference unless management learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and finds ways of implementing them.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Professor of Psychology and ManagementManaging creativity for innovation is a key challenge in today’s economy; the management of ideas will play in increasing role in driving the growth and resilience of organizations
Managing creativity in order to accelerate and improve innovation is the key management challenge that will be faced by companies in the coming years, and this challenge will be faced in an environment of ever-increasing complexity
If social technologies, data management, and analysis are going to play an important role in these transformations, management – structure, processes, culture, and leadership – still has an essential role to play in setting up the right context for innovation to thrive
Summary
Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon “ ” Today... Corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees... But such programs make no difference unless management learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and finds ways of implementing them
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