One of the contemporary demands in organizations is the need to create new knowledge and innovations. The purpose of this study is to clarify how creativity for the fuzzy front-end innovation processes can be supported by transformational leadership. In addition, the study aims at recognizing (a) challenges that organizations confront at the beginning of innovation processes and (b) what characters of transformational leadership are emphasized as well as how leaders should react during these challenging processes. The qualitative data used in this study is a partial case study from a wider action research-based development project, which aims at revealing the hidden innovation potential at different levels of an organization. Creativity and innovation are essential parts of development processes. This study contributes to the current literature on search strategies in relation to transformational leadership (TL) by extending the understanding of how to support employees' creativity and involve employees in discovering new innovation opportunities. In addition, this study suggests that TL's characteristics can be shared positively in practice as well as be performed simultaneously in the same organization development process by different leaders.

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This paper concentrates on the possibilities o®ered by gami¯cation in practice-based innovation activities. It addresses the following research questions: How does gami¯cation enhance creativity in practice-based innovation? How can gami¯cation be modi¯ed into a method that facilitates experiences of gamefulness? A case study presented in the paper examines the impact of gami¯cation in co-creating a value-adding network for open innovation processes between organizations. The results indicate that gami¯cation can be developed into a successful method that enhances creativity and interaction among collaborators.

The elderly care system's sustainability is one of the largest societal challenges of our time. Digitalization and the implementation of technologies in elderly care are viewed as offering possible solutions to the social and economic challenges of sustainability. This study's objective is to examine the development, implementation and diffusion of technologies in elderly care from a sociotechnical perspective, leaning on the concepts of sociotechnical transitions. The focus mainly is on sustainable niche development, including interactions between niches and regimes in terms of sustainable sociotechnical transitions, how niches are developed in relation to sustainability and in which conditions and circumstances promising niches can contribute to regime change in elderly care. Through a multiple-case study in different living environments of elderly residents in Finland, we identify factors that facilitate or hinder sustainable development and the implementation and diffusion of technologies in elderly care. The three case studies concern various types of development: introduction of tablet computers in senior housing, construction of a multi-sensory room in a care home, and the use of a care robot in care homes and in a rehabilitation hospital. Critical factors for sustainable niche development include involving users in the development processes, as well as simultaneous development of technologies and services. The multi-faceted and effective use of technologies requires time and resources. Critical factors in nicheregime interaction are, for example, factors relating to attitudes, as well as technologies' maturity. The need to consider a wider perspective, rather than a singular disruption, is key.

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