Behold! Another definition!
This definition of innovation by Damanpour (1991) has got to be a contender for this year's Broken Bulbs Innovation Definition Award, which will be called "The Schumpeter."
"The adoption of an internally generated or purchased device, system, policy, program, process, product, or service that is new to the adopting organization."
This definition is interesting because it takes an adoption/diffusion perspective; it considers the numerous types of innovation; and it views an innovation as not only being bought from outside, but coming from within the firm. In other words, ideas for innovations can come from anybody in the firm. Obvious, right? But that doesn't stop most firms' managers from being "too busy" to listen to many of their staff's "ridiculous" ideas.
The previous post on the grandmother of all policy headaches, ageing populations, should have provided a link to this guy's Web site.
innovation, innovation management, China, Taiwan
"The adoption of an internally generated or purchased device, system, policy, program, process, product, or service that is new to the adopting organization."
This definition is interesting because it takes an adoption/diffusion perspective; it considers the numerous types of innovation; and it views an innovation as not only being bought from outside, but coming from within the firm. In other words, ideas for innovations can come from anybody in the firm. Obvious, right? But that doesn't stop most firms' managers from being "too busy" to listen to many of their staff's "ridiculous" ideas.
The previous post on the grandmother of all policy headaches, ageing populations, should have provided a link to this guy's Web site.
innovation, innovation management, China, Taiwan
Labels: innovation
posted by Gordon Graham at 11:07 PM
1 Comments:
I fully agree,Gordon. As a lowly junior engineer I worked in telecoms hardware for just such "busy" managers. They would accept only new ideas which had come through the officially designated research department, possibly on the assumption that ideas not spotted first by "relevent" experts were unworkable. These "managers" refused my finest innovation, the "taser-phone". With my taser-phone to hand, any lady would be able to immobilise a potential attacker with 20,000 volts at four meters distance, take a photo, and alert the police in under 5 seconds, though admitedly with poor battery usage characteristics and a small(less than 2%)risk of fatality for the would be assailant- much safer than the small "handbag" guns favoured by U.S. women today, and with a great deal of added functionality and style. I now work for a more progressive British defence contractor, where I have been given the necessary latitude to revolutionalise our range of electric riot batons, leading to firm orders from China and other Asian states. I laugh at my Finnish former employers, who make only phones. Best wishes, C Liu Nee.
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