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Innovative Capability - German and International Views

Sabina Jeschke Ingrid Isenhardt Frank Hees Sven Trantow(Editor)

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Intro
Preface
Contents
Innovative Capability - an Introduction to this Volume
1 Innovative Capability and the Genesis of Innovation
2 Not Everything is Innovation
3 Dilemmas of the Modern Working Environment
4 Structure of the Book
4.1 Management of Uncertainty - Key to Innovation
4.2 Developing Skills, Work Systems, Work Processes - an Innovative Challenge
4.3 Innovative Capability and Change of Work
4.4 Intellectual Capital - Human Potential as Innovative and Competitive Advantage
4.5 Findings from the German R&D Program "Working - Learning - Developing Skills. Potential for Innovation in a Modern Working Environment
Bibliography
Part 1 Management of Uncertainty -Key to Innovation
Management of Uncertainty - A Blind Spot in the Promotion of Innovations
1 Innovations Require a New Approach to Uncertainty
2 Coping with Uncertainty rather than Removing it
2.1 Industrial Societies' Program for Removing Uncertainty
2.2 The Return of Uncertainty - Uncertainty as a Structural Feature of Innovations
2.3 Coping with Uncertainty - A New Perspective
3 Summary
4 Future Research Requirements
5 Prospects for Germany
Bibliography
Management of Uncertainty - A Contradiction in Itself?
Bibliography
Beyond Planning and Control. Alternative Approaches to the Management of Industrial Research and Development
1 Introduction
2 Management of Research and Development - between Risk Management and Tolerance of Uncertainty
2.1 Risk Management - Planning of the New and Controlling Its Creation
2.2 Tolerance of Uncertainty - Alternative Approaches in Innovation Practice, Organization Theory and Innovation Research
2.3 Development Trends in Contemporary Innovation Practice
3 Summary
4 Future Research Requirements
5 Prospects - Activate Innovative Capability through Increased Trust and Self-Regulation rather than even more Risk Management
Bibliography
The Role of Psychological Contract in Supporting Innovation Activity
Bibliography
New Forms of Project Organization and Project Management - Dynamic and Open
1 Introduction
2 New Challenges in Project Organization
2.1 Relationships between Project Organization and Knowledge Work
2.2 State of Research into Project Management
2.3 The Personal Dimension as a Stakeholder Level
2.4 Examples of Gaining Visibility of New Stakeholders in the Project Organization: Knowledge Promoters
3 Summary
4 Research Requirements from the Perspective of Innovate Capability
5 Ideas and Visions for Germany as Centre of Knowledge
Bibliography
Managing in Complexity
Innovation and Learning - For a Future of Lifelong Learning
1 Towards a Knowledge Society
2 Teaching from the Process of Transformation of the New German Länder (Federal States)
3 The Lifelong Learning Paradigm
3.1 Informal Learning - Different Learning Patterns
3.2 Empirical - Statistical Interpretations of Error
3.3 Innovation and Lifelong Learning - Innovation and Continuing Education
3.4 Learning on-the-job
3.5 The Preference for Learning
3.6 Conduciveness to Learning of Structures not an End in Itself
3.7 Work Conducive to Learning Must Add Up
3.8 Use of Skills as an Unutilized Resource
3.9 Use of Skills and Demographic Change
3.10 The Dilemma of Dull Work
4 Research and Transfer Requirements
5 Summary
Bibliography
Innovation, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
Bibliography
Uncertainty in Institutional Change.Individual Resources as Potential
1 Employography - Areas of Insecurity in Institutional Change
2 Micro Perspective: Individual Resources as Potential
2.1 Institutional Change and Lifestyle in the Working Environment
2.2 Change in Paradigms: from Insecurity to Uncertainty
2.3 Uncertainty as a Metaresource
3 Summary: Micro and Macro Perspectives
4 Future Research Requirements
5 New Game - New Chances? Uncertainty as an Innovation Resource
Bibliography
Finding Common Ground for Innovation
Bibliography
Part 2 Developing Skills, Work Systems,Work Processes - an Innovative Challenge
What's Going On Out There? - Designing Work Systems for Learning in Real Life
1 Introduction
2 The Genesis of Learning-Oriented Work Systems
2.1 A Conceptual Framework
2.2 An Old Example: The Tractor Assembly System Project
2.3 A Current Example: Process Design in Global IT Support
2.4 Third Case: Hospital
3 Summary
4 Open Questions and Future Lines of Research
5 What needs to be done?
Bibliography
Learning in Real Life
1 Introduction
2 Obstacles to and conditions for trust building
3 Interactive Methods and
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Job Learning in the Hands of New Actors - Challenges for the Innovative Capability of Companies
1 Introduction
2 The Promotion of Learning as a New Professional Activity in the Hands of Operational Actors
2.1 The Link between Learning Ability and Innovative Capability
2.2 Current State of Research
2.3 Groups of Actors and Professional Activities
2.4 New Actors for Operational Learning - Case Studies from Practice
2.4.1 Shift Foreman as "Competence Developer"
2.4.2 IT Employees and Their Influence on Learning and Work Processes
3 Summary and Research Requirements from the Perspective of Innovative Capability
3.1 Summary
3.2 Research Requirements
4 Ideas and Visions for the Business Location Germany
Bibliography
Computer-based, Individual Learning at Work: Developments and Trends
Bibliography
Integrating Innovation, Work, and Learning in Higher Education - The Case of Work Based Learning Frameworks
1 Introduction
2 Work Based Learning - Concepts and Experiences
2.1 Work Based Learning in Relation to other Learning Environments
2.2 Creation of knowledge in Work Based Learning settings
2.3 Combining University-Industry Co-Operations in R&D and Lifelong Learning (LLL)
2.4 WBL and Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL)
2.5 The WBL Landscape in the UK
2.6 The WBL Landscape in Germany
2.7 Cases: Generating Innovation in WBL and Related Settings
2.8 Emerging Trends in WBL
3 Summary
4 Future R&D Issues
5 What needs to be done?
Bibliography
Challenges and Perspectives concerning the Integration of Vocational Learning into Higher Education
Bibliography
New Forms of Work Organization and the Innovation: European Experiences
1 Introduction
2 Work Organization: an Underused Resource for Achieving Shared Goals?
3 The Future of Work and Organizations
3.1 The Workplace
3.2 Education and Training
3.3 The Global War for Talent
3.4 Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
3.5 Working Life
3.6 Demography
3.7 Migration
4 Adapting to an Uncertain World
5 Towards the High Road Organization
5.1 Workplace Partnership as Organizational Development
5.2 Empowered Job Design and Participative Teamworking
5.3 Participative Teamwork as a Building Block of Partnership
5.4 Integrating Partnership and Teamworking through Dialogue
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Innovations Require Conducive Institutions
A Human-Centered Design for Work Places: Opportunities and Constraints
1 Introduction
2 The Industrial Restructuring Process
A Flawed Model Irrespective of the Crisis
3 A New Kind of Innovation
4 The Crisis
5 A Suitable Environment for Innovation and Creativity
6 A Human Centered Design
6.1 Trust
6.2 A Requisite Organization
6.3 A Suitable Organization
6.4 Creativity as the Outcome of Joint Cooperative Activities of a Complex Network of People
7 Conclusions
Bibliography
Employee Participation as a Source of Innovation
Bibliography
Part 3 Innovative Capability and Change of Work
Social Innovation - Social Challenges and Future Research Fields
1 Introduction
2 A New Innovation Paradigm
3 What Makes an Innovation into a Social Innovation?
3.1 The Value Aspect of Social Innovation
3.2 Social Innovation and Social Change
3.3 The Diffusion of Social Innovation
4 Trends and Future Research Areas - the Contribution of Social Innovations to Dealing with Global Dilemmas
Bibliography
The Long Road from Awareness to Systematic Research and Funding of Social Innovations
1 Prerequisites and Conditions for Research and Development of Social Innovations
2 The Debate about Social Innovation in Austria
Bibliography
Innovation and the Subjective Conditions for Innovative Capability
1 Introduction - Innovative Capability and the Change in Employment
2 Innovation as a Driving Force of Economic and Socio-Political Change
3 Factors in the Innovative Capability of Companies and Social Bodies
4 Subjective Conditions of Innovative Capability
4.1 Knowledge
4.2 Skills
4.3 System of Values
5 Summary
6 Research Requirements
7 How Could the Subjective Conditions for Innovation Be Improved?
Bibliography
Workplace Innovation and New Industrial Relations
1 Introduction
2 Netherlands Center for Social Innovation
3 Supportive Theories and Evidence
4 Stakeholders' Dilemmas
5 Conclusions
Bibliography
Innovative Capability and Productivity: What has Demographic Change to do with it?
1 Introduction
2 The Coming of "Silver Age" in Europe and Its Consequences on the Workforce
2.1 Facts and Trends
2.2 Consequences on the Workforce
3 Human Resources Development: Lifelong Learning, Career Development and Innovative Capability
3.1 Ageing Workforce and Human Resources: We Can Choose the Rationale
3.2 Participation in Learning and Employment among Mature Employees
3.3 An Ambiguous View of the Age-Effect on Job Capability
4 Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Do Demographic Changes also Affect Our Views of Work?
1 Introduction
2 Work and Retirement
2.1 Retirement as a Phase of Life in Its Own Right
2.2 Work and Lifelong Learning
3 Waiting or Acting
4 Summary
5 Research Requirement
Bibliography
Encouraging Innovations in Research and Practice: The Labor Process and Innovation
1 The Labor Process and Innovation
1.1 Innovation and Work Process
1.2 Definition of Innovation
1.3 Observing the Interaction between the Labor Process and Innovation: Methodological Issues
2 Labor's Dual Role in the Process of Innovation
2.1 Definition of
2.2 Dual Role of Labor
3 Production Methods and Innovation
3.1 Production Methods-Mass Production
3.2 Integrated Production and Division of Labor
3.3 Humans as Conscious Beings in the Manufacturing Process
3.4 The Piecework Manufacturing System and Innovation
3.5 Worker Autonomy and Innovation
3.6 New Production and Monitoring System and Innovation
4 Tacit Knowledge: Contributor to the Innovation Process
4.1 The Concept of Tacit Knowledge
4.2 Innovation: a Bottom-up Process
5 Sustaining Innovation
5.1 Societal Structures Needed to Sustain Innovation
5.2 Economic and Social Policy
5.3 Workers as Innovators
6 Decision Making Models to Enhance or Impede Innovation
6.1 Consensus Decision Making
6.2 The Structure of Decision-Making Authority
7 Initiatives to Stimulate Innovation
7.1 Education or Training?
7.2 Provision of Capital at the Source of Innovation
7.3 Sustainable Innovation and Employment
8 Putting the Pieces Together: Productivity, Employment and Capital
8.1 Productivity, Employment and Capital Mobility
8.2 De-linking Productivity from Wages
8.3 Technological and Process Factors that Inhibit Workplace/ Labor - Driven Innovation
8.4 Capital Mobility and Innovation
8.5 Capital Investment
9 Areas of Research
9.1 Innovation and Proximate Production
9.2 Capital Mobility and Innovation
10 Summary
Bibliography
Economic Democracy as a Driver of Innovation
1 Introduction
2 Historical Classification
3 Economic Democracy as a Solution
4 Summary
5 Research Requirement
Bibliography
Fostering Innovative Capability in Germany - The Role of Interdisciplinary Research Networks
1 Introduction
2 Management of Learning and Knowledge in the "Dynax" Knowledge Society
2.1 Organizational Processes of Learning and Knowledge in Knowledge Intensive Network Organizations, Taking as an Example the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries"
2.2 An Approach to the Management of Knowledge Intensive Project Networks: Cross Sectional Processes
3 Summary
4 Future Research Requirements
5 Implications for the Business Location Germany
Bibliography
Foster Innovative Capabilities by Strengthening European Dimensions of Research Networks
Bibliography
Part 4 Intellectual Capital - Human Potentialas Factor of Innovation
Knowledge 2010 - Intellectual Capital as Driver of Wealth
1 Introduction
2 The Country Level: The IC of Nations
3 The Regional Level: The IC For Regions, Cities and Local Communities
4 The Organizational Level: Corporate IC
5 Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management activities in practice
6 Outlook and Conclusion
Bibliography
Some Key Quizzics for the Future Intellectual Capital
1 The Concept of Intellectual Capital (IC)
2 Productivity Quest
3 Some Macro IC Mapping
4 New Club of Paris
5 Societal Innovation
6 Future Wealth of Nations
Some Thought Stimulating Links
Measuring Intellectual Capital
1 Introduction
2 Classification of Intellectual Capital
3 Measuring and Evaluating Intellectual Capital
4 Processes of Innovation and Open Innovation
5 Summary
6 Future Research Requirements
7 Outlook
Bibliography
What Cannot Be Measured Can Nevertheless Be Managed1
1 Is Intellectual Capital Measurable?
1.1 The Model-Based Approach
1.2 Approaches Involving the Extension of Existing Models
1.3 Narrative Approaches
2 The Progressive Potential of the Knowledge Economy
Corporate Innovative Capability between the Forces of Typical Dilemmas - Conceptual Challenges for Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management
1 Focus of the Article: Which Aspects and Measures of Intellectual Capital Management Promote Innovative Capability?
2 On the Significance of Intellectual Capital (IC) and IC Management for Innovative Capability
3 Typical Dilemmas in Workplace Innovation Management at the Company Level
3.1 Evolutionary further Development versus Leaps in Innovation
3.2 Innovation in the Lab versus Transfer in the Field
3.3 Non-Disclosure or Protection of Intellectual Property Rights versus Inclusion of External Experts, Innovation Partners, Suppliers and Customers
4 Dilemmas at an Operational Level of Innovation and Development
4.1 Creative Freedom versus Time and Cost Pressures
4.2 "A Path is Made by Walking it" versus Process Orientation
4.3 Specialization (Specialist) versus Combination and Integration (Generalist)
5 Reflection and Assessment of these Dilemmas
6 Sustainable Innovative Capability as a Result of a new Transfer Vision between Academics and Business - An Imaginative Outlook
Bibliography
On the Way to a Renewed IC-Agenda
Learning by Playing: Potential of Serious Games to Increase Intellectual Capital
1 Introduction to the Topic
2 Learning Games, Serious Games and Simulation Games
2.1 Playing and Learning
2.2 Overview of the Genre
3 Simulation Games and Business Simulations
3.1 Classification and Overview
3.1.1 What are Simulation Games?
3.1.2 Differentiation Criteria and Applications of Simulation Games
3.1.3 Advantages of Simulation Games
3.2 The Benefits of Simulation Games for Companies
3.2.1 Role of Simulation Games in Establishing and Developing Professional Decision-making Skills
3.2.2 Increasing Intellectual Capital
3.2.3 A Look at the Learning Culture of the Next Generation
4 A Practical Example - Simulation Game Portal for Large Groups
4.1 Introduction to Practical Example
4.2 Q-Key and Micro-Key
4.3 Web-based Implementation
5 Conclusion and Future Prospects
Bibliography
Serious Rigor for Serious Games
Bibliography
Future Center - An Unconventional Approach to Promote Intellectual Capital Potential
Introduction
1 Happy Future
2 Intellectual Capital and Future Centers
2.1 Knowledge Journey: The Origins of the Future Centers
2.2 Significant Adaptations in the Netherlands
2.3 LEF - Courage in a Public Authority?
3 Future Centers - What Exactly are They?
3.1 The Actual Effects on Intellectual Capital
3.2 High-Performance Teams or Voetbal Total
4 Knowledge Journey 2: Use of Future Centers in Germany?
5 Adaptation Perspectives: ACSI as Open European Future Building
Bibliography
Facilitating the Future
1 On the Happiness of Futures: We Get what We Are Unprepared for
2 Insights on the Edge: What Future Centers Are Learning Now
2.1 Finland Creates Value in Practice
3 The Relevance of Future Centers for Germany
3.1 The
Frankfurt-Rhine-Main
3.2 Lessons Learned for Germany
Bibliography
Part 5 Findings from the German R&D Program "Working - Learning - Developing Skills. Potential for Innovation in a Modern Working Environment"
Innovative Capability - Learning Capability - Transfer Capability. Promoting Innovation systematically
Introduction
1 Program Governance and Cross-Linkage
2 Innovative Capability and Learning Capability
2.1 Instruments of the Learning Program
3 Innovative Capability and Transfer Capability
3.1 The Transfer Mission of the IMO Project
3.2 Underlying Problem Areas for Result Transfer in Projects
3.3 A New Transfer Understanding
3.4 The IMO "Transfer" Field of Action and its four Cross-Sectional Research Tasks
3.4.1 Operationalization and Measurement
3.4.2 Method Integration and Target-Group Adaption
3.4.3 Cross-Linkage and Constitution of Alliances
3.4.4 Enabling and Dissemination
4 Summary
Bibliography
Occupational Safety and Health as an Innovation Driver
1 Capacity to Innovate and Prevention
2 Prevention in a Modern Work Environment
3 The Funding Priority as a Solution Space
3.1 Innovative Funding Structures
3.2 Prevention as an Element of Workplace Innovation Management4
3.3 Prevention as a Competitive Factor5
3.4 Innovation Strategy and Health6
3.5 Health Promotion in the Context of Demographic Change7
3.6 Participation, Leadership and Prevention8
3.7 Cross-Company Alliances9
3.8 Strategic Transfer in Occupational Safety and Health
4 Taking Prevention Forward
Bibliography
Innovative Capability as a Management Requirement - Which Organizational Strategies Can Promote Innovation Processes?
1 Introduction
2 New Innovation Strategies - Insights into the Work of the Joint Projects and Focus Groups
2.1 Focus Group "Innovation Strategy and Health"
2.2 Focus Group "High-tech Strategies in the Innovation Process"
2.3 Focus Group "Innovation Strategies and Participation"
2.4 Focus Group "Technology and Network Management"
2.5 Focus Group "Organizational and Personal Development"
2.6 Focus Group "Management of Open Innovation Processes"
3 Summary: Dilemmas of Non-Traditional Innovation Strategies
3.1 Innovation as a Result of Nonlinear Forms of Organization: Control of vs. Receptiveness to the Unexpected
3.2 Interaction beyond the Limits of the Organization: Competition vs. Cooperation
3.3 Subjectivity as a Source of Creativity and Innovation: Creativity Freedom vs. the Pressure to Succeed
4 Future Research Requirement
5 What Comes after the New Innovation Strategies?
Bibliography
IT-based Interactive Research - on the Use of Social Software in Research
1 Setting the Stage
2 Balance of Flexibility and Stability in a Changing Work Environment
3 The Solution: Internet and Innovation
4 Research in 2.0 - Towards IT-based Interactive Research
5 Social Network Sites and Social Research Network Sites
6 Approach of the Project "BALANCE of Flexibility and Stability in a Changing Research Environment"
7 Conclusion and Outlook
Acknowledgements
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