Collective Innovation Processes

Dimitri Uzunidis, Professor of political economy, is Honorary President of the Research Network on Innovation (RNI). He coordinates the Smart Innovation and Innovation in Engineering and Technology Sets with ISTE Ltd and Wiley, as well as the Technology and Innovation journal with ISTE OpenScience.

• Introduction ixDimitri UZUNIDISChapter 1. Enterprise Knowledge Capital and Innovation: Definition, Roles and Challenges 1Blandine LAPERCHE1.1. Knowledge capital: definition and roles 31.1.1. Information and knowledge 31.1.2. Definition of knowledge capital 61.1.3. Knowledge capital and managing knowledge 81.2. Productive use of knowledge capital 111.2.1. Knowledge capital and the production of new goods and services 121.2.2. Knowledge capital and the cohesiveness of work collectives 161.2.3. The use of knowledge capital in the digital era: reduction of the production process completion time 171.3. Conclusion 211.4. Bibliography 22Chapter 2. The Non-economic Values of Innovation 27Edouard LE MARÉCHAL2.1. Introduction 272.2. The development of business models caused by digitization 292.3. Extending the notion of value generation to include non-economic values 322.4. Putting forward a value system to be considered when creating innovation business models 352.5. How values can be used in a systemic representation of innovation392.6. Conclusion 412.7. Bibliography 43Chapter 3. Long-term Survival of Innovative Organizations 47Sophie MIGNON3.1. Long-term survival: finding a balance between change and continuity 483.2. Multiple possibilities between change and continuity 503.2.1. A balance resulting from a structural, spatial and architectural separation of opposite forces: the theory of structural ambidexterity 503.2.2. Reaching an equilibrium by temporally alternating between the two dynamics: punctuated equilibrium theory 513.2.3. Finding a balance through ambidexterity in individuals and more generally in the organizational context: the contextual ambidexterity approach . 523.3. Which innovation strategy should companies aiming for long-term survival adopt? The concept of prudent innovation 543.4. Conclusion 583.5. Bibliography 59Chapter 4. The Resources Potential of the Innovative Entrepreneur . 63Sophie BOUTILLIER4.1. The resources potential of innovative entrepreneurs 644.1.1. Defining innovative entrepreneurs 644.1.2. The resources potential of innovative entrepreneurs 694.2. The innovative entrepreneur’s resources: knowledge, finance and social Networks 724.2.1. Knowledge and financial means, the indispensable resources for innovative entrepreneurs 724.2.2. Mobility thanks to the networks of social relationships 764.3. Conclusion 814.4. Bibliography82Chapter 5. Innovation Spaces: New Places for Collective Intelligence? 87Laure MOREL, Laurent DUPONT and Marie-Reine BOUDAREL5.1. Introduction 875.2. Innovation spaces: the spaces where all the new innovation trends coexist 895.3. Which types of spaces, to what innovating or innovative ends? 915.4. The innovation space: a design issue approached in the wrong way 945.5. Places in the service of collective intelligence? 975.6. Conclusion 1025.7. Bibliography 103Chapter 6. The Innovative Territory 109Corinne TANGUY6.1. Territory and innovation: a collective process of co-construction 1106.2. Territorial proximities and cooperation networks 1146.2.1. Challenging the predominant role of geographic proximity 1146.2.2. Different forms of proximity 1156.3. The complementary nature of local and distant collaborations 1186.4. Conclusion: project territories and new governance systems 1206.5. Bibliography 122Chapter 7. The “Eco-innovative” Milieu: Industrial Ecology and Diversification of Territorial Economy.131Fedoua KASMI7.1. Industrial ecology and the “eco-innovative” milieu 1327.1.1. Industrial ecology and industrial regions 1327.1.2. Industrial ecology as an “eco-innovative” milieu 1347.2. From specialization to “smart” diversification: altering the economic trajectory of a region 1387.2.1. Specialization versus diversification 1387.2.2. “Smart” diversification and a new territorial path 1437.3. Conclusion 1507.4. Bibliography 150Chapter 8. Responsible Innovation 159Leïla TEMRI8.1. Foundations 1608.1.1. Responsibility in science and technology . 1608.1.2. Technology assessment 1618.2. Responsible research and innovation in European policies 1638.3. Responsible innovation and companies 1668.4. Conclusion 1738.5. Bibliography 174Chapter 9. Innovation Capacities as a Prerequisite for Forming a National Innovation System 177Vanessa CASADELLA and Dimitri UZUNIDIS9.1. Institutions and innovation capacities 1799.1.1. Taking institutions into consideration in economic theory 1799.1.2. Institutions and innovation capacities 1829.2. Innovation capacities and national innovation systems 1859.2.1. National innovation systems and their heterogeneity 1869.2.2. Innovation capacities, the inseparable pillars of NIS 1919.3. Conclusion 1949.4. Bibliography 195List of Authors 201Index 203