Total-System Innovation Management: Concepts and Applications

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Author(s): Oliver Yu (San Jose State University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 15
Source title: Quality Innovation: Knowledge, Theory, and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Latif Al-Hakim (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)and Chen Jin (Zhejiang University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4769-5.ch007

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Value & Quality / Knowledge Management / Library & Information Science

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Innovation has been the driving force of economic growth and social progress. Today, innovation is viewed more than ever as one of the most important ways to resolve economic and social difficulties and sustain global development. Nevertheless, there is no widely adopted definition and unified framework for the innovation process and its management. This chapter develops a simple yet universal definition of innovation and uses a total-system approach to identify and examine the common key elements of many different types of innovation and to establish from which a unified framework for the development and management of an innovation process. This total-system approach is further applied to a particular key element, creative idea generation, to develop a number of practical techniques for its implementation.

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