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Turning innovation research into practical tools

We translate innovation research, theory and strategic analysis into custom frameworks, visuals, reports, canvases and learning tools. The articles and infographics below show the research base behind our work — not as off-the-shelf products, but as examples of how complex ideas can be made practical for teams and organizations.

• Regenerative Innovation Readiness: A Framework for Assessing Systemic Impact and Resilience
  by janspruijt
  Abstract Regenerative innovation represents an emergent paradigm in sustainability-oriented transformation that goes beyond minimizing harm to actively restoring and enhancing ecological and social systems. As the limitations of conventional sustainability approaches become increasingly evident amidst accelerating environmental degradation and social inequity, organizations are called to adopt models that generate net-positive value across natural, social, and
• Innovation Excellence Framework: Using ISO 56001 to Manage Quality in Innovation Management Systems.
  by janspruijt
  Innovation is no longer a solo endeavor. The age of open innovation has arrived, where collaboration across industries, disciplines, and borders is key to addressing global challenges and driving progress. In this dynamic landscape, the launch of ISO 56001:2024 represents a monumental step forward for organizations striving to innovate smarter, faster, and more sustainably. What
• Connecting Design Thinking and Startup Ecosystems: An Innographic
  by janspruijt
  This visual framework offers a conceptual link between the iterative processes of Design Thinking (DT) and the customer-driven methodologies embedded in Steve Blank’s Customer Development (CD) model. The intention is to situate startups not as isolated entities but as critical participants within broader, interconnected ecosystems. This narrative aims to clarify how such integrative approaches can
• Ethical Considerations Regarding the Use of AI in Higher Education
  by janspruijt
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a remarkable advancement in technology with the potential to significantly benefit higher education. AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can support educators and enhance student learning experiences by automating administrative tasks, providing personalized learning pathways, and facilitating access to a vast array of information. However, while the benefits of AI are numerous,
• Weekly Science Selections: AI-driven Innovation & NeuroentrepreneurshipWeekly Science Selections
  by janspruijt
  Every week, this section contains newly published scientific articles in the field of innovation & entrepreneurship. This section contains the #EditorsChoice and a list of articles grouped into #MustReads, #ShouldReads and #CouldReads. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive these in your inbox.
• Chris Freeman: the entrepreneur who created the concept of ‘innovation studies’
  by janspruijt
  Subscribe to our newsletter to receive posts like this weekly. After our deepdive into the story of Ted Levitt last week, we’ll dive into the extraordinary story of Christopher Freeman (1921 – 2010) this week. By many renowned for his substantial conributions to the academic field of innovation, and as such named a ‘social sciences
• Unleashing Innovation: Strategic Simulation Games as a solution to the use of AI and ChatGPT in Business Education
  by janspruijt
  In the world of business education, the usage of AI and ChatGPT has severe impact. Not only does it open doors for new ways of learning, it also threatens traditional learning methods, activities and deliverables – and forces educators to update curricula in a fast pace. As became apparent over the last few years, strategic
• Regenerative Innovation Process Through Systems Thinking [Infographic]
  by janspruijt
  About a month ago, Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov, posted a message on LinkedIn that contained an impressive methodology to look at regenerative systems thinking. The idea sparked my mind and I gave it a lot of thinking during the last few weeks. And, although I explicitly do acknolwedge the strength and simplicity of the model
• Avoid the Toxic Trap: the Toxic Matrix
  by janspruijt
  Innovation is the foundation of progress and success in business. A culture of innovation is essential for companies to thrive and stay competitive. One of the biggest challenges for companies is to ensure that the culture of innovation is not overshadowed by a culture of toxicity. There are a number of potential pitfalls that must
• 2 Decades of Open Innovation: an infographic
  by janspruijt
  The rise of open innovation has been a long-standing trend in business. In the early 1990s, companies were starting to realize that they could improve their competitive edge by sharing their ideas and innovations with others. This led to the development of the concept of “open source” software, which allows for free exchange of information
• Infographic: Innovation Learning Arches
  by janspruijt
  What if we look at innovation from the perspective of learning? In that case, the sole intention of innovation management is not systematically generating and implementing viable offerings, but optimizing the amount of learning that an organization can handle when dealing with processes of creativity. For the purpose of this infographic I’ve combined the theories
• Inneagram: Stakeholder Collaboration in Innovation Ecosystems
  by janspruijt
  The story of this infographic began 16 years ago during a Summer School organized by the University of Cambridge. Not in the City of Perspiring Dreams itself, but on the mystical mountain Uludağ in Turkey, with 15 fellow students in a mountain hut more than 1 hour away from the nearest town with cellphone reception.
• Innovation for SDGs
  by janspruijt
  After its introduction by the United Nations in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have started to become increasingly accepted and embraced by both the public sector and the private sector as the ‘horizon’ to focus on when it comes to this world’s grandest challenges. Over the years, public institutes have operationalized and committed themselves
• 11 New Papers about Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  by janspruijt
  This is an overview of some interesting open access papers published in the last two weeks!
• Open Innovation’s Latest Papers: Wicked Acceleration, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems & More
  by janspruijt
  At OpenInnovation.eu, we are on a mission to bridge the gap between education and industry. That’s why we continuously scan the newest, open access, publication in the field of innovation & entrepreneurship for you. These are some of the most interesting publications recently:
• A Visual History of Innovation Theory
  by janspruijt
  The history of innovation theory is as rich as innovation itself. Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle already used the term καινοτομία coming from καινός (new) and τομ (radical craftsmanship): crafting in a radically new way. In modern theory, it was Schumpeter who popularized the term innovation in 1934 as part of his line of
• Crisis-triggered Innovation Systems
  by janspruijt
  While the Corona crisis is currently affecting millions worldwide, I wanted to already share with you a fragment of a book I’m currently writing about innovation in the new economy. The fragment is about how a crisis or disruption can create a (spontaneous) need for innovation and could open up opportunities for innovative companies to
• How to blend 10 Types of Innovation with the Business Model Canvas?
  by janspruijt
  Simple but effective: I’ve tried to combine the excellent framework of 10 Types of Innovation (Keeley et al, 2013) with the highly successful framework of the Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder, Pigneur et al, 2008). I wasn’t the first one to come up with this idea, some others have plotted the 10 types on the BMC
• When Ten Faces flirt with Ten Types: Ten Types of Innovation Teams
  by janspruijt
  When the book “Ten Types of Innovation” (Keeley et al.), in its most recent format, hit the shelves in 2013 – not only me, but many of my colleagues in higher education, embraced the work because of its clarity and integrality. It offered a much richer approach than the usual – perhaps more scientifically evidenced
• A 4-Step Approach to Creating Exceptional Business Models
  by janspruijt
  a futuring technique for public organizations Still a holy grail in market research: the DESTEP – STEEPLE – method. It is taught in almost every business-related course in the world and a very powerful tool to map trends for strategic purposes.  However, there are a few fatal flaws that may cause users of this method
• The Ambidextrous Organization
  by janspruijt
  4 Paths to a Sophisticated Innovation Strategy In december I reached out to both Alexander Osterwalder and John Bessant and asked them what is the most important organizational skill for engaging continuously with innovation. Their answers were almost the same: Shorty after, I read an article by Ayse Birsel, on Inc.com1. She also talked to
• Typology for Innovative Organizations
  by janspruijt
  Typology for Organizations: an update It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management
• Innovation Management Canvas
  by janspruijt
  As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative model for dealing with innovation management on a daily basis. Innovation Management is a strategic activity that isn’t necessarily needed to implement throughly for every
• Business Model Generator
  by janspruijt
  The use of Open Innovation is to a large extent related to the rise of technology. Not only does technology smoothen Open Innovation, also the adaption of new technologies to the core business (model) can be accelerated by participating in Open Innovation networks. In fact, when talking to businesses the questions that they have do
• 11 Artificial Intelligence Eurekas for Organizations: my recap of World Summit AI 2017
  by janspruijt
  In 1990 Kurzweil instantly incubated the way we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with his work The Age of Intelligent Machines. While there is now, almost 30 years later, still a long road ahead of us, the technology readiness level of AI is getting significantly closer and many applications are trying to implement AIs state-of-the-art
• 33 Routes to Open Innovation
  by janspruijt
  It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated its definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” (Chesbrough, 2003). Over the course of time, the terminology relating with Open Innovation has evolved alongside developments
• Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy
  by janspruijt
  This article is an extended book review of The Quest for Professionalism of George Romme, a 2016-published book by Oxford University Press. The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and
• 11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught
  by janspruijt
  Introduction Entrepreneurial thinking is described as one of the most relevant skills for the 21st-century workforce (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie, & Brande, 2016). And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). As
• 50 Research Methods for Innovation Infographic
  by janspruijt
  A few weeks ago entrepreneur Valer Pop, CEO of LifeSense Group told his startup story to us at the High Tech Campus. After having a successfull career at Holst Centre, Valer decided to start his business with just a small idea: solving unwanted urine loss. He was working on this idea at Holst Centre, but
• 99 Mental Barriers for Innovation Infographic
  by janspruijt
  Many of our students work on innovation projects for SME. When asked to organize an ‘open innovation session’, students enthousiastically start to read details about open innovation, open sessions and different ways of creating an open innovation-mindset within SME. We usually point them to the excellent work of Lee et al (2010), an article that
• The University in 2040: 6 trends & an infographic.
  by janspruijt
  On November 23, I had the honor of giving a talk at the NRC Live event for Education. I was scheduled immediately after Bert van der Zwaan, rector magnificus at the University of Utrecht. Van der Zwaan launched his book that day: the result of sabbatical he and his wife took in 2015. During that
• 8 Types of Innovation Processes (Infographic)
  by janspruijt
  As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative model for dealing with innovation management on a daily basis. Innovation Management is a strategic activity that isn’t necessarily needed to implement throughly for every
• Innovation Thinking Methods
  by janspruijt
  A few weeks ago, a friend brought the book “Innovation Thinking Methods: disciplines of thought that can help you rethink industries and unlock 10x better solutions” from Osama A. Hashmi to my attention. I ordered it, read it and was impressed by the both the power and simplicity of the work. The book is thin
• ISPIM Conference Porto & ISPIM Grand Prize for Innovation Management Excellence
  by janspruijt
  As a member of ISPIM, we’re proud to be part of the ISPIM 2016 Conference in Porto again. Organised by ISPIM, and supported by ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação (the National Innovation Office of Portugal), this event is for innovation researchers, industry executives, thought leaders and policy makers. Understand the latest innovation management thinking in 50+ workshops, keynotes, tours and
• 50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  by janspruijt
  During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. The course was based on the following model:
• Do you have an open innovation strategy?
  by janspruijt
  In today’s business environment, where startups play an increasingly important role and disruptions come from unexpected corners of the business arena, embracing external sources of knowledge as part of an open innovation strategy becomes crucial! Rotterdam School of Management launches a new programme focused on implementing such an open innovation strategy with a particular focus on the role of startups. What
• 71 Innovation Methodologies
  by janspruijt
  A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. We are still looking for ways to categorize them, but for now we’ve based our categorization
• Remember me? I’m a Silly Valley Serial Entreprenerd Unicorpse. I like to leverage Start-Up Jargon.
  by janspruijt
  Remember me? I’m a Silly Valley serial entreprenerd. I’m well-known for using startup jargon, which I learned from Forbes, Fortune and TechCrunch. Shall I share my story with you? Beware: this small piece of text contains 73 jargon words. When I was 16 I launched my first B-to-B business. Some FFF helped me to leverage
• The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures
  by janspruijt
  Traditionally, organization design (OD) is an area of expertise focused on the roles and formal structures of organizations. The main goal of OD would be to design the organization in such a way that it makes it possible for the company to reach its vision and thus facilitates the growth.
• 7 Billion Universities: How Simulation Games could disrupt Education
  by janspruijt
  Over a week ago, I gave a TED talk about the role of simulation games in higher education and how they could disrupt the education system as we know it. Below, you’ll find the video, the slides I used and the full transcript of the text. Are you interested in helping me to make this
• The Early Bird Gets the Worm, But the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese: Non-Technological Innovation in Creative Industries
  by janspruijt
  In the most recent edition of the Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, I ran into an interesting article about being a startup versus being an early adaptor. The article suggests that early adaptors have a higher probability to succeed in the case of non-technological environments than the startups that proceed them.
• Schematic overview to understand the complexity of the Innovation Ecosystem (Infographic)
  by janspruijt
  The Innovation Ecosystem The Innovation Ecosystem is one of the most under-researched topics. One the one hand because policy researchers usually tend to focus more on polls, elections and international collaboration and business researchers usually tend to focus more on organizations and interorganizational collaborations. However, publisher Edward Elgar has repeatedly published interesting works on innovation
• 15 Best Open Innovation Articles of 2015
  by janspruijt
  2015’s Innovation Management conference (ISPIM) was all about Open Innovation. In fact, it was one of the most keywords – and definitely the most specific one – used amongst all 233 papers presented during the conference. Although the articles are not completely available yet (if you’re not a member), I have used it to draw up
• Trending Topics in Innovation Management
  by janspruijt
  Last week, 233 papers have been presented at the ISPIM conference. Although not proceeded yet, the papers and abstracts are already available for ISPIM members. Being a member, I was able to scan all the abstracts, titles and keywords for trending topics. After a few manual adjustments, such as combining words and ignoring research-related terminology
• 5 Most Powerfull Insights on Innovation Management gained at the ISPIM Conference
  by janspruijt
  “If you go from Moscow to Budapest, you think you are in Paris. And if you go from Paris to Budapest, you think you are in Moscow,” as Gyorgy Ligeti very sharply noticed, perfectly describes the location of the XXVI ISPIM Conference in Budapest. ISPIM, short for International Society for Professional Innovation Management, organized this
• A 5-Dimensional Model for Managing Innovation through Organizational Change
  by janspruijt
  I’m in the lucky position to run into quite a few business owners, corporate directors and leaders on a daily occasion. And when talking to them about innovation – and their ambitions – it almost always comes down to one simple question: “How can we implement innovation in our organization?”. A question which seems easy
• Creating Space for Innovation: The Role of “Design Zones”
  by janspruijt
  For quite some years already, we (as in educational institutes) have been trying to set up the best ‘creative classroom’ possibile, because we believe that it is an essential element of modern education. I believe it contributes to collaborative learning and a strong attitude towards innovation. We are not the only one, many institutes are
• Using Games to create Business Model Innovation
  by janspruijt
  I believe this article by Sune Gudiksen is interesting because it explores the rationale of game theory in combination with business model innovation. The article argues that gamification (in the innovation process) could lead to novel business model insights.Gudiksen describes game theory by referrin the ‘magic circle’: “As stated bypioneering play researcher Huizinga (1949), itis
• Teamwork and Organizational Innovation: The Moderating Role of the HRM Context
  by janspruijt
  This study examines whether staff groups which are organized in teams are better at organizational innovation than staff groups who aren’t. Moreover, it examines whether human resource management (HRM) systems, which can be of facilitating or constraining nature, enhance the teamwork and therefore innovation outcomes.18 to 45 organizations from the UK manufacturing sector have been
• Two Tests to Test your Company’s Innovativeness
  by janspruijt
  In collaboration with Avans University of Applied Sciences, we can provide 2 different tests that will help you analyse your organization’s overall performance on innovation management. The first test, based on John Bessant’s and Joe Tidd’s Managing Innovation focuses on 5 different aspects of organizing and facilitating innovation in your organization. The second test, based
• The world of Patents in Europe (Infographic)
  by janspruijt
  Did you know for example that there were 265.690 European Patent Filings in 2013 but only 66.712 were granted? Did you know that your invention will be protected in up to 40 European countries based on 1 single application? James Sherwin from SOR Solicitors, a Dublin-based law firm, created an infographic about European Patents. This
• 10 reasons why you should think twice before starting a start-up.
  by janspruijt
  This week, two different articles were posted indepently from each other, but both strongly related. The first article posted 5 reasons not to start a business and the other one gave us 5 reasons for startups to go bankrupt.What you should think about before starting a startup: If you don’t understand business basics, don’t start
• 4 ways in which ideas management helps innovation flourish
  by janspruijt
  Ideas management could, according to this article, support the innovation process in four ways: It helps organisations to capture, evaluate and progress proposals It provides a democratic environment to determine the best ideas and to show a willingness to consider all ideas It helps to increase genuine cross-organization transformation It helps in creating a corporate
• The world’s best e-courses on Innovation Management
  by janspruijt
  This autumn, we gathered some of the best 21st century courses on Innovation Management for you. While specialist courses at Insead, Berkely or IESE are extremely good, they are expensive and intense. You don’t want to get into the hussle of persuading your employer you’re worth the 50K investment, but still want to learn something?
• The future of planes: one huge artificial window
  by janspruijt
  The Center for Process Innovation in the UK has released a video that shows the ‘plane of the future’… without windows to decrease weight and CO2 emmission and to increase comfort. A beautiful example of Open Innovation where Aerospace Engineering meets Consumer Electronics meets Sustainability. Read full article: The future of planes: one huge artificial
• Brilliant Management Advice From Google’s Eric Schmidt on How Google Works
  by janspruijt
  This week, Eric Schmidt posted a presentation on Slideshare about Innovation Management at Google. It highlights the role of innovation culture, creativity, talent and more key elements that every organization that thinks about managing innovation should start with. Read full article: Brilliant Management Advice From Google’s Eric Schmidt on How Google Works
• Constraints that Help or Hinder Creative Performance: A Motivational Approach
  by janspruijt
  The proposed framework predicts the effects of working under two distinct types of constraints (those that limit vs. channel cognitive resources) depending on people’s motivational orientation (approach vs. avoidance). The main predictions are that constraints that limit cognitive resources undermine performance more under avoidance than under approach motivation, and that constraints that channel cognitive resources
• Emotions as Constraining and Facilitating Factors for Creativity: Companionate Love and Anger
  by janspruijt
  This article indicates that the effects of anger on organizational innovation involve behavioural and cognitive facets. The behavioural effects of anger lead employees to criticize imperfection, correct errors, propose ideas boldly and take spontaneous actions. These behaviours are advantageous for asserting and evaluating ideas. The cognitive effect of anger enhances creativity and increases cognitive fluency.
• Ten Faces of Innovation in an Infographic
  by janspruijt
  This time, we’ll put Kelley’s Ten Faces of Innovation in the spotlight. First published in 2005, but still growing in popularity, this work focuses on the different roles people can adopt in innovation teams. I’ve created an infographic that is inspired by the work of Kelley. The Ten Faces of Innovation are:– The Anthropologist– The
• Barroso about boosting innovation in the European Union
  by janspruijt
  viEUws just published an exclusive video interview in which José Manuel Barroso, the outgoing President of the European Commission, talks about what needs to be done to boost innovation, competitiveness and business in the European Union. Barroso discusses the benefits of TTIP (the EU-United States trade deal) for Europe, identifies measures to improve access to
• Finding opportunities in a culture of (European) regulations
  by janspruijt
  Excellent article by Angele Grech: “Regulation is complex, multifaceted and dynamic. Financial markets today are characterised by rapid innovation and an evolving business environment, together with changes in customer needs and profiles. Implementing change in this environment is challenging and the process is ongoing.” Read full article: Finding opportunities in a culture of (European) regulations
• How to Manage Improvisation: a succesfull ingredient for Creativity and Innovation
  by janspruijt
  This article discusses different forms of organizational improvisation (ad-hoc, covert, provocative and managed) and relates them to organization theory. Moreover, they propose an interesting overview of different forms of improvisation (ad-hoc, covert, provocative and managed improvisation) and answering questions like: what is improvisation?, when does it take place?, how does it take place?, and how
• The Management of Creativity & Innovation
  by janspruijt
  A short white paper of Dr Mahesh Dabre (University of Akola, India) about the human resource side of managing open innovation and creativity in organizations. Interesting reading. Read full article: The Management of Creativity & Innovation
• How Nonprofits are Leveraging Innovation Management Platforms
  by janspruijt
  Last year, we wrote a popular article about the Golden Circle of Innovation and the way that not-for-profit organizations are using Open Innovation. Recently, another article was published on this matter. To sum up, it says innovation management can help nonprofits in three different ways: – better funding – internal efficiency – unlock growth Read
• The Rise of Innovation Districts in Europe
  by janspruijt
  According to High Tech Campus frontman Bert-Jan Woertman, building bridges between innovation district is the way forward. He follows up upon a recent publication of Brookings Institution, The Rise of Innovation Districts, and benchmarks the Technology Region of Southern Netherlands with districts mentioned in the report. So, this would be a form of open innovation
• Disruptive Innovation: why the theory absolutely makes sense.
  by janspruijt
  Recently, there has been some debate about whether or not the theory about Disruptive Innovation should be followed upon by business leaders or not. In her article The Disrupting Machine Jill Lepore suggests that the theory is based upon flawed assumptions. Many articles have tried to support Lepore – such as John Parkinson – and
• Ten Types of Innovation Infographic
  by janspruijt
  By far one of the most interesting books on innovation of the last few years is “Ten Types of Innovation: the discipline of building breakthroughs” by Keeley. At the time of publishing he was director of the firm Doblin, however the firm has recently been acquired by Deloite. The Ten Types of Innovation explain different
• Agile Methods in a New Area of Innovation Management and Business Modeling.
  by janspruijt
  This article by Link and Lewrick (2014), presented at the Science-to-Business Marketing Conference, provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of Agile Methods in Innovation Management. The authors propose that Agile Methods should not be used in R&D only, but also in fields like organizational culture, management style, structures, effective working and cunstomer relationships. Preliminary
• 6 Lessons that Innovation Managers could learn from Louis van Gaal
  by janspruijt
  This article was written before the powerful match against Spain last Friday and states that there are 6 reasons why Louis van Gaal can beat Spain: the lessons from Louis van Gaal. These lessons also translate perfectly to Innovation Managers. These are the 6 management lessons from Louis van Gaal to Innovation Managers: 1. An
• 10 Years of Open Innovation Research
  by janspruijt
  This scientific publication by Bogers and Chesbrough provides an interesting and pragmatic overview of 10 years of scientific research towards Open Innovation. It uses trends graphs, wordclouds and most cited articles to clarify the development of the expertise. Topics include: – Intra-organizational Individual : Group/Team , Project , Functional area , Business unit – Organizational
• Where does ‘The Innovation Funnel’ come from? A short history.
  by janspruijt
  This great article from 2011 by Gerry Katz provides us with an overview of the different models that have been developed around innovation processes and New Product Development. In short: — 1980: New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser) – 1986: Stage Gate (Cooper) – 1992: Innovation Funnel (Wheelwright & Clark) – 1992: New Product
• University R&D doesn’t create economic growth
  by janspruijt
  “It is not clear, then, that university-based research necessarily leads to the economic payoffs that governments expect,” the report concludes. “But it does point out that investment in research can lead to higher-quality university education and so improve a country’s “human capital”.” Read full article: University R&D doesn’t create economic growth
• How to build an innovation roadmap
  by janspruijt
  In this article Denys Resnick, executive president of NineSigma presents an opinion toward the difference between incrmental change and real innovation. She makes us wonder if incremental change should be considered as innovation and proposes a perspective towards real innovation. Read full article: How to build an innovation roadmap
• The Innovator Dating Service
  by janspruijt
  This is an interesting article about the role of big data in HR departments and the effect it could have on innovation processes. “In this way, these HR divisions have essentially become dating services. They believe that they will discover their next generation of innovators by using algorithms that evaluate how well potential recruits align
• Immediacy, Accuracy, Innovation – It’s Required
  by janspruijt
  An interesting post by Scott MacFarland in the Huffington Post explains why immediacy and accuracy are important factors in the innovation process: “As innovation becomes a necessity for survival, so will immediacy and accuracy characteristics that make up the innovative process and the product. Innovation is not just something that can be bought and sold
• Business Model Innovation: Ten Lessons from Nonprofits
  by janspruijt
  What keeps business leaders up at night? If it’s not their company’s ability to streamline operations and lower costs, it’s whether their teams have the vision to see future opportunities and the flexibility to pursue those opportunities faster and more profitably than competitors. Read full article: Business Model Innovation: Ten Lessons from Nonprofits
• Open innovation as a start-up strategy
  by janspruijt
  Interest in open innovation has risen dramatically in recent years. However, much of that interest has centred on large-scale enterprises. The focus of this paper is to explore open innovation from an SME perspective and in particular the under-researched perspective of a born global firm. We seek firstly, to explore the viability of open innovation
• Towards an Open Innovation Measurement System
  by janspruijt
  Since the beginning of an open innovation era back in 2003, the research of the phenomenon keeps spiking the interest and the publications with the keyword open innovation grow exponentially every year. The multitude of research focused on many details of open innovation, at the same time literature reviews of this research aimed at classifying
• The Magic of Innovation
  by janspruijt
  Why do certain product and service experiences seem to Undeniable not have that “wow” factor, while others disap- Point customers? Perhaps there’s no better place to turn to than the world of magic. Below, Stefan Thomke and Jason That Randal consider leading magicians are Constantly under pressure to come up with new “effects” that wow
• Open Innovation cooperation strategies in Regional Innovation System
  by janspruijt
  The paper tackles an interplay of two theoretical approaches concerning innovation management understood as a collective process of at least a few interacting entities. The first approach is anchored in management and covers Chesbrough’s Open Innovation concept and its followers. The other refers to regional science with focus on Regional Innovation Systems. Both approaches use
• FEI open innovation 2014
  by janspruijt
  FEI Open Innovation Open Innovation as an Enabler to Inclusivity, Frugality and Agility May 13-15, 2014 | Boston, MA www.iirusa.com/feiopen   Featuring Unilever, Singularity University, Clorox, Roche, General Mills, Pfizer, Pitney Bowes, and more Open is a foundational concept– it’s not new, and it’s not going away. How to strategically use and ADAPT open is
• The 3 Phases of Responsible Innovation
  by janspruijt
  Over the last few month, the phrase “Responsible Innovation” has been booming on scientific social media. It has emerged from Corporate Social Responsibility as a topic that researches the effect and consequences of innovation on the long term. This could be technological effects, antropological effects or ethical effects. The fundament of this research topic lies
• Innovation Management Game nominated for Accenture Innovation Awards
  by janspruijt
  One of the products that we have been supporting recently, the Innovation Management Game, has been nominated by Accenture for the Accenture Innovation Awards 2013. According to the website of Accenture: The Innovation Management Game is a ‘serious game for serious professionals’: a business simulation in which different teams compete with and against each other to build an
• Top 10 Best Articles on Open Innovation in 2013
  by janspruijt
  Based on the rankings of the SSRN database, we are able to create a ranking of the best – most downloaded – Open Innovation and related topics articles that have been published in 2013 so far. Therefore, this is a list of brand new theories, recent case studies, preliminary results and pioneering research. The Theory
• The Golden Circle of Innovation
  by janspruijt
  Recently, a new article about the “The Golden Circle of Innovation” has been published in the SSRN. It provides an interesting way of combining Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle and some traditional literature on innovation science into the ‘Golden Circle of Innovation’. Important notice: the full article can be downloaded freely from the SSRN database: The
• Gap between Innovation Leaders and Innovation Followers in European Union grows
  by janspruijt
  The results of the 2013 study of innovation in the European Union have been published. The most innovative countries are still Germany, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. However, the gap between these so-called ‘innovation leaders’ and the innovation followers, such as the Netherlands and Luxembourg is growing. Or, as stated by the European Commission: Innovation performance
• Crowdsourcing: a video that summarizes it all
  by janspruijt
  Recently, one of our students made a short video about Crowdsourcing and Co-creation. The video gives insight in most issues that are important in the operationalisation of co-creation:
• Shell wants to invest in Open Innovation
  by janspruijt
  Shell indicates to be willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in technology-oriented companies for the next 6 to 8 years. according to belegger.nl. The website has published to following text (translated): This step helps Shell to enable the use of innovations on new projects, according to the company. Shell refers (amongst others) to
• Serious games effective in teaching (open) innovation & management
  by janspruijt
  Recently, an article about the effect of serious games on teaching and learning the essentials of (open) innovation and innovation management has been published on the ssrn. The authors have researched a group of students from different nationalities playing a game in the context of an education course. By playing the game, they had the
• Creativity as a Life Skill for Innovation
  by janspruijt
  One of my favorite reads of the last couple of years is the work “Creative Leadership: Skills that drive innovation”, written by Puccio, Mance and Murdock. They argue that by making use of the right thinking skills an individual should be able to think outside their ‘area of familiarity’. The origin of radical innovation begins
• Innovation Management at Avans University
  by janspruijt
  A couple of weeks ago, I had to give a presentation about innovation management at the Frismakers Festival in the Netherlands. The presentation was about innovation management at Avans University, where I’m employed as a lecturer on this topic. The presentation follows a structured number of steps: firstly, I had to jump into the subject:
• European Commission opts for Industrial Revolution 2.0
  by janspruijt
  Recent decades have been the years of outsourcing. Not only did companies outsource traditional cheap production towards more interesting markets, companies also outsourced most of their ICT and knowledge-based services towards cheaper countries. During recent years, many organisation have also outsourced their innovation departments and knowledge-intensive research and development branches towards countries in the Far
• Open Innovation 2.0: evolution or revolution?
  by janspruijt
  In the latest issue of IPSIM, an interesting article article about Open Innovation 2.0 has been published. What is Open Innovation 2.0, according to the author? “A key distinguishing attribute of Open Innovation 2.0 is focus on adoption. Michael Schrage of MIT has written “Innovation is not innovators innovating, it is customers adopting”. While much
• Global Innovation Barometer: Innovation has Strategic Priority
  by janspruijt
  Last week the Global Innovation Barometer (GE) has been launched. The barometer provides results from (the most important) economies around the world . For instance, in the Dutch Report they conclude: “Innovation is a strategic priority for Dutch Businesses”, with almost 91% of the respondents mentioning it.  Moreover, the report mentions the following indicators as
• Brainport needs thousands of new knowledge workers
  by janspruijt
  The Brainport Region has indicated to be searching for thousands of employees with a technical background. The local market is not offering enough, so the region has (again) started a campaign to attract knowledge workers from abroad. Good news in uncertain times. Link: http://nos.nl/video/464667-eindhoven-gaat-personeel-in-buitenland-zoeken.html  
• Open Innovation: Comparing Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Idea Sharing in SMEs
  by janspruijt
  Open Innovation has been hyped for over a decade now. Despite of the fact that many researchers have been researching core aspects of the Open Innovation definition – as Henry Chesbrough has put it in 2003 and redefined it in 2010 – the concept has somewhat ‘blurred’, meaning that Open Innovation oftenly is mistaken for
• Innovation Management Game: start-up of the year
  by janspruijt
  Just like last year, we’ll publish a (small) list containing the most promising start-ups of the year. Obviously, we’ll share our opinion from the perspective of Open Innovation by answering the following questions: Does the start-up contribute to the field of Open Innovation? Does the start-up contribute to the field of Innovation Management? Does the
• The Innovation Spiral: a closer look on Ernst & Young’s innovation model
  by janspruijt
  “Mention the word “innovation” and most people will think of extraordinary inventions created by solitary geniuses,” as mentioned in the first line of Ernst & Young‘s introduction to (one of) their innovation model(s). The article is titled: Innovation for Growth: a spiral approach to business model innovation. A promising introduction: it seems to include (organizational)
• European Innovation Scoreboard exposes substantial regional differences in performance
  by janspruijt
  The European Innovation Scoreboard has been one of the most important European studies for national en regional performance on innovation performance. As one of the key elements for economic growth en job growth, the performance or regions in regard of innovation is comprehensively assessedon a yearly basis. The results are therefore widely used by local
• Europe dominates Global Competitiveness Report
  by janspruijt
  Switzerland keeps its prime position in the list and Singapore stays second. Switzerland is renowned for its high investment in Research and Development and highly integrated collaboration efforts between business and knowledge institutes. In Singapore the main factors mentioned are the professional attitude and efficiency of the government. The top 5 is completed with two Scandinavian countries