Welcome To innovation
This site to dedicated to all those who have spend all their lives trying to understand Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I would like to humbly add my perspective to these very important areas of research and knowledge. Please treat this website as yours and feel free to contribute as much as you can and I will try to make sure that your viewpoints are captured on this website or on a Wordpress blogs. Where ever I can I will provide free tips or tools for you to get started on your own. Please verify for yourself that these are still indeed free as over time the owners may have copyrighted certain aspect and especially if you are using if for commercial purposes.
My passion for this subject arose partly because of my career as a Strategic Studies lecturer and partly because of the desire to unravel the nexus between these concepts in my doctoral thesis. My greatest inspiration come from Strategist and thinkers like Clausewitz, Helmut Von Moltke, Douhet, Sun Tzu, John Boyd, Kant, Foucault, Habermas and Schumpeter, Drucker and Mintzberg.
Innovation
The terms ‘innovative ability’, ‘innovative capability’, ‘innovative competence’ and ‘absorptive capacity’ are often used interchangeably and for the purpose of this study refers to innovative capacity. The concept of innovative capacity is the potential of a firm, region or nation to output (Porter & Stern2002).
The phenomena of innovation can be described using the terms innovation inputs, processes (innovation throughputs) and products(innovation outputs). Innovation inputs refer to resources that support innovative activities (for example,research, training and skilled workers). Innovation throughput refers to activities that support the innovation process (for example collaboration). Innovation output refers to the outcome new products as a result of the innovation inputs, throughputs and activities within the firm.
The EU Green Paper defines innovation as ‘the renewal and enlargement of the range of product and services and associated markets, the establishment of new methods of production, supply and distribution and th eintroduction of changes in management, work organization, and working conditions and skills of the work force’(EC 1995).
Innovative intensity at the firm level is defined as the demonstrated commitment of innovation inputs and throughputs. It can be measured by the commitment to research and development (R&D) expenditure, Science and Engineering(S&E) expertise, collaboration with research institutions or other firms and the organization and processes supporting i
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