Creativity and Innovation through Multidisciplinary and Multisectoral Cooperation

Alves, Jorge Fernandes; Marques, Maria José; Saur, Irina Adriana; Marques, Pedro Rocha

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8691.2007.00417.x

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“…Conforme Alves et al (2007), as empresas precisam de criatividade para inovar em função da constante adaptação exigida pelo mercado. A criatividade advém da formação de competências multidisciplinares e cooperação (diversidade de atores), coerência (integração e atividades complementares) e interatividade (consistência da relação).…”

Section: A Cooperação Para Inovar Nas Empresasunclassified

Ganhos de produtividade da cooperação para inovar nas empresas industriais brasileiras

Steingraber¹,

Gonçalves

2013

Econ. Apl.

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ResumoEste artigo analisa o impacto da cooperação para inovar sobre a produtividade das empresas industriais brasileiras. Tal exercício é considerado em dois momentos na estimativa realizada. Primeiramente, verifica-se o efeito das competências para inovar na empresa, em seguida estas competências são controladas pelo desempenho setorial, onde é introduzida a variável de cooperação. Os resultados encontrados mostram que as empresas mais produtivas são as que apresentam mão de obra inovadora, maior renda e escolaridade dos trabalhadores, são maiores e com maior volume de importação, já as empresas mais produtivas que cooperam no setor apresentam maior volume de exportações, pedidos de patentes registrados e são maiores na participação setorial.Palavras-chave: Cooperação; Cooperação para inovar; Competências para inovar. AbstractThis paper examines the impact of innovative cooperation on productivity of Brazilian industrial companies. This exercise carried out in two steps. First, the effect of capabilities in the firm's productivity is checked, then, these capabilities are controlled by sectorial performance, with the introduction of the variable innovative cooperation. The results showed that the most productive firms have innovative labor, higher income and education of the workers, are larger in size, and have higher value of imports; the most productive firms with cooperation at sector have higher value of exports, a greater number of patent applications, and sectorial participation.

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Section: A Cooperação Para Inovar Nas Empresasunclassified

Ganhos de produtividade da cooperação para inovar nas empresas industriais brasileiras

Steingraber¹,

Gonçalves

2013

Econ. Apl.

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“…However, the role of communities in creating, shaping and disseminating technological and social innovations outside the boundaries of the firm is a specially promising research area (West and Lakhani 2008). Since heterogeneity is known to be a driver for creativity and communities are heterogeneous in nature, they are offering a hidden creative potential (Oldman and Cummings 1996;Alves et al 2007;Schaarschmidt and Von Kortzfleisch 2008). Furthermore, innovation networks, whether as networks of companies or persons have the potential to act as a proxy for innovation (Martins and Terblanche 2003;Kratzer et al 2004;Birkinshaw et al 2007).…”

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SME 2.0: Roadmap towards Web 2.0-Based Open Innovation in SME-Networks – A Case Study Based Research Framework

Lindermann

Valcárcel

Schaarschmidt

et al. 2009

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Small-and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are of high social and economic importance since they represent 99% of European enterprises. With regard to their restricted resources, SMEs are facing a limited capacity for innovation to compete with new challenges in a complex and dynamic competitive environment. Given this context, SMEs need to increasingly cooperate to generate innovations on an extended resource base. Our research project 1 focuses on the aspect of open innovation in SME-networks enabled by Web 2.0 applications and referring to innovative solutions of non-competitive daily life problems. Examples are industrial safety, work-life balance issues or pollution control. The project raises the question whether the use of Web 2.0 applications can foster the exchange of creativity and innovative ideas within a network of SMEs and hence catalyze new forms of innovation processes among its participants. Using Web 2.0 applications within SMEs implies consequently breaking down innovation processes to employees' level and thus systematically opening up a heterogeneous and broader knowledge base to idea generation. In this paper we address first steps on a roadmap towards Web 2.0-based open innovation processes within SME-networks. It presents a general framework for interaction activities leading to open innovation and recommends a regional marketplace as a viable, trust-building driver for further collaborative activities. These findings are based on field research within a specific SME-network in Rhineland-Palatinate Germany, the "WirtschaftsForum Neuwied e.V.", which consists of roughly 100 heterogeneous SMEs employing about 8,000 workers.

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“…Fairbank et al, (2003) describes creativity as solving problems with new, practical solutions. Creativity can be defined as the generation of ideas and innovation can, then, be understood as the processing of these ideas (Alves et al, 2007). In business, creativity often refers to ideas that give rise to new product or process innovations (Gordon et al, 2008).…”

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“…The company's efficiency, competitiveness and the ability to constantly create innovations depend, in addition to several other factors, on the participation of the company's employees (Tonnessen, 2005). According to Alves et al (2007), innovative companies exploit various sources of ideas and encourage their employees to innovate, in order to obtain a constant flow of ideas. Francis and Bessant (2005) show that there can be a number of approaches to examine the company's operations and various sources of improvement ideas.…”

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The Use of an Idea Bank in Developing Business Operations

Tervonen¹,

Haapasalo²,

Keinänen³

2012

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The objective of this study is to develop an operating model for the purpose of utilising an idea bank in the development of business operations. The study was carried out as a constructive interview survey. The study examines the development proposal activity in a company and the operating model which is created in this study includes a harmonised electronic recording system for development proposals. The study clarifies the existing models and procedures related to the employees' idea and suggestion schemes and continuous improvement. The idea bank model includes a description of the requirements set by development proposal activity to the model itself and the incorporated management system. The objectives of the idea bank model are to maintain the processes needed for the development proposal activity, and to be a tool towards harmonising and organising development proposal activities.The idea bank model can be used to record different kinds of development proposals into a common operating model and system. The operating model consists of making a development proposal, handling and processing it, the implementation, reward, recording and retrieving of data related to the proposal and follow-up. The idea bank model may facilitate the employees' participation in development and innovation activities, as well as sharing knowledge and operating methods. The model allows development activities to be directed according to the company's needs, as well as the monitoring and analysis of operations. In addition, it enables the employees' know-how to be recorded in order to create a resource of data for the organisation.

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Creativity and Innovation through Multidisciplinary and Multisectoral Cooperation

Cited by 169 publications

References 32 publications

Ganhos de produtividade da cooperação para inovar nas empresas industriais brasileiras

Ganhos de produtividade da cooperação para inovar nas empresas industriais brasileiras

SME 2.0: Roadmap towards Web 2.0-Based Open Innovation in SME-Networks – A Case Study Based Research Framework

The Use of an Idea Bank in Developing Business Operations

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